Jackson Pollock Part One: The Myth of the Modern Artist

In 1949, Life magazine asked: "Is Jackson Pollock, the greatest American Painter. He is a figure that is polarising among art aficionados. Some see him as a fraud, others as a genius. In Part One of my film I look at how, post World War Two, the art scene shifted from Paris to New York.

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