Name: Picasso/Pollock: The European Vanguard Versus American Modernism
ISBN: 9781908419743

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Picasso/Pollock: The European Vanguard Versus American Modernism

Edward Lucie-Smith

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In this volume Edward Lucie-Smith explores the magnetic poles of post-War modernism, with its figurehead in Europe of Pablo Picasso, and emerging creators in the USA led by Jackson Pollock and others in Abstract Expressionism. The author sets the mutual roots in Surrealism and reflects on the survival of the French artists during the Occupation. He traces Pollock's lasting effect to the later cycles American Pop.