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Ovation TV | Jackson Pollock
posted on YouTube

This OVATION TV original documentary follows his life, beginning with his Depression-era days working for the WPA through the optimism and Cold War paranoia that laced the 1950s. Pollock’s relationships with both Ernest Hemingway and Pablo Picasso are explored.

Archival footage, including Hans Namuth’s famous cinematic rendering of the artist at work, is coupled with archival photos of Pollock’s time, when atom bombs stunned the world, Kerouac addressed the Beat Generation and jazz permeated the airwaves.

Available on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=otBdXcWOELY