Jackson Pollock's Mural: Energy Made Visible

An astute, beautifully illustrated examination of the recently restored touchstone of modern art

Jackson Pollock’s major early work Mural (1943) was commissioned by Peggy Guggenheim for the entrance hall of her East 61st Street New York residence. Mural-sized, though not actually a mural—the work is painted on a six-meter-long canvas, not directly onto the wall—this vast, frieze-like panorama would be hugely influential in twentieth-century American art.

In Jackson Pollock's Mural: Energy Mad...