To a Violent Grave: An Oral Biography of Jackson Pollock

In a thousand dazzling images conjured by his immediate family and closest friends, Jackson Pollock, the spectacularly self-destructive and gifted American painter, comes to life in this fascinating oral biography assembled and written by his friend and East Hampton neighbor, Jeffrey Potter. The dramatic narrative of Pollock’s violent death, told by those who were on the scene, from farmers and policemen to coroners and lovers, is gripping in its immediacy. To a Violent Grave reveals a man living a life that mirrored his art. Jackson Pollock–powerful, colorful, contradictory, brilliant–was an explosion that rocked and changed forever all he touched.