Abstract Expressionism

(Basic Art series). This succinct, illustrated survey covers Abstract Expressionism in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s, presenting discussion and works by artists such as Jackson Pollock, Arshile Gorky, Barnett Newman, Willem de Kooning, Joan Mitchell, Helen Frankenthaler, Franz Kline, Mark Rothko, Lee Krasner and others. All reflecting a movement that "at a certain moment the canvas began to appear to one American painter after another as an arena in which to act...whatwas to go on the canvas was not a picture but an event." Illus., color reproductions; b&w biographic photos. 96p.