Three kinds of motion : Kerouac, Pollock, and the making of American highways

The Resource Three kinds of motion : Kerouac, Pollock, and the making of American highways

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Three kinds of motion : Kerouac, Pollock, and the making of American highways

Title remainder

Kerouac, Pollock, and the making of American highways

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Riley Hanick

Language

eng

Summary

In 1943, Peggy Guggenheim commissioned a mural from Jackson Pollock to hang in the entryway of her Manhattan townhouse. It was the largest Pollock canvas she would ever own, and four years later she gave it to a small Midwestern institution with no place to put it. When the original scroll of On the Road goes on tour across the country, it lands at the same Iowa museum housing Peggy's Pollock, revitalizing Riley Hanick's adolescent fascination with the author. Alongside these two narrative threads, Hanick revisits Dwight D. Eisenhower's quest to build America's first interstate highway system. When catastrophic rains flood the Iowa highways with their famous allure and history of conquest, they also threaten the museum and its precious mural. In Three Kinds of Motion, his razor-sharp, funny, and intensely vulnerable book-length essay, Hanick moves deftly between his three subjects. He delivers a story with breathtaking ingenuity

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DLC

Dewey number

813/.54

Index

no index present

LC call number

PS3521.E735

LC item number

Z666 2015

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

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