Abstract Expressionism to Pop Art

Catalog description

Considers the varied avant-gardes of the United States, England, France, Italy, Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia in the years immediately after World War II, then focuses on the development of the New York School from abstract expressionism, through neo-dada and other movements of the late 1950s, and into the pop art and minimalism of the 1960s. Also examines the parallel but divergent development of an international avant-garde linking France, Italy, and South America. Emphasizes the global perspective by surveying avant-gardes of the 1950s and 1960s in Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, and Japan, and how they responded to developments in Paris and New York.