Expressionism abstract

Collins, B. R. Clement Greenberg and the Search for Abstract Expressionism s Successor A Study in the Manipulation of Avant-Garde Consciousness. Arts Magazine (May 1987) 36-43. 

Guilbaut, S. How New York Stole the Idea of Modern Art Abstract Expressionism, Freedom, and the Cold War. Univ. of Chicago Press, 1983. 

The works of Claude Monet, Vincent van Gogh, and Jackson Pollock represent, respectively, impressionism, post-impressionism, and abstract expressionism. Even though it would be difficult to forge paintings by these well-known artists, forgeries still appear. 

Also known as action painting and the New York school, the 1940s saw the emergence of abstract expressionism, an art movement exemplified by the works of Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning. 

Most critics would acknowledge that Paris ceased to be the center of cutting-edge art and literature after i960. This mantle passed to New York with the rise of abstract expressionism, pop art, and postmodernism, and to hundreds of smaller capitals of the newly consecrated world literature. Indeed, one could argue that the idea of a single capital or center lost its importance after the decline of modernism once radical innovation and the quest to produce absolute novelty ceased to be the point, and writers and artists no longer needed immediate access to the latest trends. 

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