Preface
Introduction
Ch. 1. The avant-garde in the 1930s : mastering the School of Paris
Ch. 2. World War II : mythmaking and biomorphism
Ch. 3. Field painting : from the terrible sublime to the exalted sublime
Ch. 4. Gesture painting : improvisation and authenticity
Ch. 5. Abstract expressionism and the Cold War
Ch. 6. Field painting and gesture painting and their critics
Ch. 7. The recognition of abstract expressionism
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