Abstract expressionism and the American experience : a reevaluation / by Irving Sandler.
Publication Info.
Lenox [ Mass.] : Hard Press Editions ; New York : School of Visual Arts ; Manchester, VT : In association with Hudson Hills Press : [Distributed in the United States by National Book Network], [2009]
Preface -- Introduction -- Ch. 1. The avant-garde in the 1930s : mastering the School of Paris -- Ch. 2. World War II : mythmaking and biomorphism -- Ch. 3. Field painting : from the terrible sublime to the exalted sublime -- Ch. 4. Gesture painting : improvisation and authenticity -- Ch. 5. Abstract expressionism and the Cold War -- Ch. 6. Field painting and gesture painting and their critics -- Ch. 7. The recognition of abstract expressionism -- Appendix. Image copyright information.