The Philosophy and Politics of Abstract Expressionism, 1940 1960

This volume reexamines the relationship between a flourishing artistic movement of the 1940s and 50s and the concomitant new liberalism as defined and supported... » 

This volume reexamines the relationship between a flourishing artistic movement of the 1940s and 50s and the concomitant new liberalism as defined and supported by the American left. The author reinterprets the international success of Abstract Expressionism. «