Book of the week: Shape of Freedom

Following World War II, Western painting went in completely new directions. Instead of figurative representation or geometric abstraction, painters in the orbit of Abstract Expressionism in the US and Art Informel in Western Europe pursued a radically impulsive approach to form, color, and material.

The catalog examines the two sister movements against the background of a vibrant transatlantic exchange, from the 1940s through to the end of the Cold War.

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