With the emergence of Abstract Expressionism after World War II,
the attention of the international art world turned from Paris to
New York. Dore Ashton captures the vitality of the cultural milieu
in which the New York School artists worked and argued and
critiqued each other's work from the 1930s to the 1950s. Working
from unsifted archives, from contemporary newspapers and books, and
from extensive conversations with the men and women who
participated in the rise of the New York School, Ashton provides a
rich cultural and intellectual history of this period. In examining
the complex sources of this important movement--from the WPA
program of the 1930s and the influx of European ideas to the
recognition in the 1950s of American painting on an international
scale--she conveys the concerns of an extraordinary group of
artists including Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, Ad Reinhardt,
Philip Guston, Barnett Newman, Arshile Gorky, and many others. Rare
documentary photographs illustrate Ashton's classic appraisal of
the New York School scene.
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