An 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 genetically would have been more properly called ''abstract surrealism.''"Surrealists in New YorkThe impact of Max Ernst, André Masson, Louise Bourgeois and other noted émigrés on the work of Motherwell, Pollock, Mark Rothko, and the American avant-garde has for too long been quietly written out of art history. Drawing on first-hand documents, interviews, and archive materials, Charles Darwent brings to life the events and personalities from this crucial encounter, revealing a fascinating new perspective on the history of the art of the twentieth century.
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