Review: Blue Poles: Jackson Pollock, Gough Whitlam and the Painting that Changed Australia – Tom McIlroy (Hachette) This episode is described early in Blue Poles: Jackson Pollock, Gough Whitlam ...

The painting was Jackson Pollock's "Blue Poles". 'Drunks did it' screamed the tabloid press. Journalists, politicians and cartoonists had a field day, while everybody, but everybody, across the ...

Blue Poles: Jackson Pollock, Gough Whitlam and the painting that changed a nation by Tom McIlroy At the epicentre of our 70s boom stands Jackson Pollock’s Blue Poles, purchased for the ...

Blue Poles was worth US$6,000 when collector Fred Olsen bought it in 1954. He sold it to the art enthusiast Ben Heller three years later for $32,000. Australia paid Heller AUD$1.4 million for the ...

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 ...