Abstract Expressionism [Paperback]

Abstract Expressionism is arguably the most important art movement since the Second World War. Because the images created by such leading figures as Jackson Pollock, Clyfford Still, Willem de Kooning, and Mark Rothko were so extraordinary, it is often thought to have been a revolution in painting only, but its radical spirit also encompassed David Smiths sculpture and Aaron Siskinds photography. With other key artists such as Barnett Newman and Franz Kline, this group was a nucleus united not just against the tensions of American society from the 1930s onward but also in its aim to forge a new visual language.Curatorand critic David Anfams crucial exploration of the Abstract Expressionistmovement, updated to include scholarship of the past decade and a half