This enlightening and thought-provoking look at New York City s postwar art scen
e focuses on the galleries and the artists that helped transform American art. W
hile the achievements of New York City s most renowned postwar artists de Koonin
g, Pollock, Rothko, Franz Kline have been studied in depth, a large cadre of les
ser-known but influential artists came of age between 1952 and 1965. Also unders
tudied are the early, experimental works by more well- known figures such as Mar
k di Suvero, Jim Dine, Dan Flavin, and Claes Oldenburg.
