French historian, Serge Guilbaut, explores the aesthetic quarrels between Paris and New York of the 40s and 50s, analysing the art that became cultural and commercial icons, with works by Picasso, de Kooning, Dubuffet, Gorky, Kandinsky, Matisse, Newm...

Contents: Acknowledgments Introduction 1. New York, 1935-1941: The De-Marxization of the Intelligentsia 2. The Second World War and the Attempt to Establish an Independent American Art 3. The Creation of an American Avant-Garde, 1945-1947 4. Su...