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With the emergence of Abstract Expressionism after World War II, the attention of the international art world turned from Paris to New York. In this book, Dore Ashton captures the vitality of the cultural milieu in which the New York School artists worked and argued from the 1930s to the 1950s.

Table of Contents
Author's note
List of Illustrations
Introduction
Greenwich Village—and Depression
z 'Hell, it's not just about painting!'
3 Artists and the New Deal
4 A Farrago of Theories
5 Studio Talk
6 The advent of Surrealism
7 Voices from Europe
8 Myth and Metamorphosis
9 American culture or mass culture?
io Abstract Expressionism
II Artists and Dealers
12 Existentialism
13 The Eighth-street Club
14 'Instantaneous tradition'
15 The end of an era
Afterword
References
Index

The New York School

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      Publisher University of California Press
      Published 1 October 1992
      ISBN-13 9780520081062
      978-0520081062
      ISBN-10 0520081064
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      History of art

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      With the emergence of Abstract Expressionism after World War II, the attention of the international art world turned from Paris to New York. In this book, Dore Ashton captures the vitality of the cultural milieu in which the New York School artists worked and argued from the 1930s to the 1950s.

      Table of Contents
      Author's note
      List of Illustrations
      Introduction
      Greenwich Village—and Depression
      z 'Hell, it's not just about painting!'
      3 Artists and the New Deal
      4 A Farrago of Theories
      5 Studio Talk
      6 The advent of Surrealism
      7 Voices from Europe
      8 Myth and Metamorphosis
      9 American culture or mass culture?
      io Abstract Expressionism
      II Artists and Dealers
      12 Existentialism
      13 The Eighth-street Club
      14 'Instantaneous tradition'
      15 The end of an era
      Afterword
      References
      Index

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