The Rise and Fall of American Art, 1940s–1980s : A Geopolitics of Western Art Worlds (Hardcover)

Introduction: from the 'Fall of Paris' to the 'Invasion of New York'; 'Art ... a language that should unite': the diversity of the postwar art worlds; Vehemences Confrontees: the limits of postwar artistic exchanges; 'We will always have Paris': the domination of Paris in the 1950s; 'The future is in New York': the strength of the US art worlds in the late 1950s; This Is Tomorrow: the triumph of the American way in the 1960s; I like America and America likes me: the European domination of American art in the 1970s; A New Spirit in Painting: the European comeback of the 1980s; Epilogue: consequences of the European comeback; Index.