Art in America 1945-1970: Writings from the Age of Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, and Minimalism (Library of America)

Experience the creative explosion that transformed American art—in the words of the artists, writers, and critics who were there

In the quarter century after the end of World War II, a new generation of painters, sculptors, and photographers transformed the face of American art and shifted the center of the art world from Paris to New York. Signaled by the triumph of abstraction and the ascendancy of painters such as Pollock, Rothko, de Kooning, and Kline, this revolution generated an exube...