Blue Poles and its $1.4m price-tag shocked the nation, but did it change us?
- Written by Joshua Black, Visitor, School of History, Australian National University
Even as a high school student in the 1920s, Jackson Pollock understood the value of art and culture. The young upstart and his friends caused a “classroom scandal” when they published a polemic criticising their school’s “overemphasis on athletics” and “disrespect” of the humanities. They called it the...





