The New York School : The Painters and Sculptors of the Fifties (Hardcover)

"Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The Milieu of the New York School in the Early Fifties -- The Community of the New York School -- The Colonization of Gesture Painting -- Frankenthaler, Mitchell, Leslie, Resnick, Francis, and Other Gesture Painters -- Gestural Realism -- Rivers, Hartigan, Goodnough, Muller, Johnson, Porter, Katz, Pearlstein, and Other Gestural Realists -- Assemblage: Stankiewicz, Chamberlain, di Suvero, and Other Junk Sculptors -- The Duchamp-Cage Aesthetic -- Rauschenberg and Johns -- Environments and Happenings: Kaprow, Grooms, Oldenburg, Dine, and Whitman -- Hard-edge and Stained Color field Abstraction, and Other Non-gestural Styles: Kelly, Smith, Louis, Noland, Parker, Held, and Others -- The Recognition of the Second Generation -- The New Academy -- Circa 1960: A Change in Sensibility -- Appendix A: First-Generation Painters, Dates and Places of Birth -- Appendix B: Second-Generation Artists, Dates and Places of Birth, Art Education, and One-Person Shows in New York, 1950-1960 -- Bibliography -- List of Illustrations -- Index -- A section of Color Plates follows page"