TY - BOOK AU - Guilbaut,Serge TI - How New York stole the idea of modern art: abstract expressionism, freedom, and the cold war SN - 0226310396 AV - N6512.5.N4 G84 1983 U1 - 709.7471 PY - 1983/// CY - Chicago PB - University of Chicago Press KW - New York school of art KW - Abstract expressionism KW - United States KW - Avant-garde (Aesthetics) KW - History KW - 20th century KW - Art and society N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-266) and index; 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; Success: How New York Stole the Notion of Modernism from the Parisians, 1948 --; 5; Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index ER -