Blue Poles and its $1.4m price-tag shocked the nation, but did it change us?
Even as a high school student in the 1920s, Jackson Pollock understood the value of art and culture. The young upstart and ...
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Blue Poles: how Australia came to own the Jackson Pollock masterpiece
Jackson Pollock’s Blue Poles is one of the greatest paintings of the 20th century. National Gallery of Australia The cable arrived at lunchtime on Wednesday, 6 June, 1973. The news from New ...
Blue Poles: the painting that changed Australia
Our cultural romanticists tend to celebrate the early 1980s as this nation’s Warholean 15 minutes of 20th-century fame, with ...
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Blue Poles and its $1.4m price-tag shocked the nation, but did it change us?
This episode is described early in Blue Poles: Jackson Pollock, Gough Whitlam and the Painting that Changed a Nation, a new book by journalist and first-time author Tom McIlroy. The colourful ...