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The American Action Painters by Harold Rosenberg

Expressionism jumped from the communal situation of the first half of 19th Century America, a time span that was distinguished by the Great Depression of the 1930s, financial, communal and political volatility, two devastating world conflicts and a consequent inward turn and adoption of isolationist principles in the USA. Artistically, the era of modernism was approaching to an end, and realist and Regionalist decorating were still dominant. In this context, the Abstract Expressionists originated with a fundamental, new method of decorating that assessed a turn away from the figurative, ...