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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 709.7471 EAN: 9780226310398 ISBN: 0226310396 Label: University Of Chicago Press Manufacturer: University Of Chicago Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 288 Publication Date: April 15, 1985 Publisher: University Of Chicago Press Studio: University Of Chicago Press Related Items:
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 Rating: - Social and political context of Abstract ExpressionismGuilbaut offers an compelling account of the European-American situation during and immediately following WWII, when the center of Western culture was transferred from Paris to New York. It was not an easy shift; although Paris was in ruins, Europeans and the French especially did not want to see their centuries-long monopoly put in the hands of such a young and, in their view, naïve country. A major theme throughout this text is the shifting alliances of the left in regard to Marxism and socialism. ... Read More Rating: - Answers to several questionsI am an Argentine art critic and curator. I knew of this book but had not read it. I ordered it because I found the title ingenious. I thought it would be entertaining as well as good. It goes further. It is an in-depth study of the social and political circumnstances that accompanied the intellectual and creative processes of American artists previous, during and after the Second World War. It is an articulate explanation of why artists who were thouroughly conscious of social shortcomings chose to create ... Read More 
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