Jackson Pollock

In this course

Jackson Pollock appears as a historical exemplar of state-sponsored artistic practice during the Depression-era New Deal, when visual artists maintained direct public and political engagement before the Cold War abstraction that would later define the New York school. The reading uses this reference to establish a lost model of artist participation in social infrastructure, contrasting it with later aesthetic autonomy and raising the question of what role artists might play in systems of collective concern—a concern that resonates through the course's examination of how creative practice intersects with technology and power structures.

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