Surrealists in New York: Atelier 17 and the Birth of Abstract Expressionism Reiseunterkunft Duro Olowu

Duro Olowu

providing a thought-provoking insight into the minds of one of the world’s most distinctive creative duos

Diese neu überarbeitete Ausgabe mit den maßgeblichen Artikeln der 1940er-Jahre dokumentiert ein Jahrzehnt

Gilbert Vicario

Surrealists in New York: Atelier 17 and the Birth of Abstract Expressionism Reiseunterkunft Duro OlowuAn absorbing group biography revealing how exiles from war torn France brought surrealism to America, sparking the movement that became abstract expressionism. In 1957 the American artist Robert Motherwell made an unexpected claim: "I have only known two painting milieus well the Parisian Surrealists, with whom I began painting seriously in New York in 1940, and the native movement that has come to be known as 'abstract expressionism,' but which