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Book SynopsisChallenging the dominant view that American Abstract Expressionism triumphed in Western Europe in the immediate post-war period, this book considers the proliferation of gesture painting there from a European perspective. -- .
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Introduction: the Idea of Europe
1 The Abstraction-Realism Debate and its background, 1938-1948
2 Communism, anti-Communism, and government intervention at the Venice Biennale, 1948-1952
3 The Biennali of 1954-1956: the politics of Realism
4 The 1958 Biennale: the collapse of the Ente and the rise of Gesture Painting as the ‘European Idea’
5 The Biennali of 1960 and 1962: from European to global cultural policy
6 Gesture Painting in Communist Europe
7 Gesture Painting in Africa, Asia and Latin America
8 Epilogue: the 1964 Biennale: the end of Gesture Painting
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