A fresh look at the painting and sculpture that transformed the art world in the years after World War II. Action/Abstraction: Pollock, de Kooning, and American Art, 1940-1976 features over fifty key works of postwar art, revealing the cultural and intellectual framework of Abstract Expressionism, the movements that followed it, and popular culture's fascination with the art and artists of the period.

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	Willem de Kooning (1904-1997) Gotham News, 1955 Oil on canvas 69 x 79 in. (175.3 x 200.7 cm) Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, N.Y., Gift of Seymour H. Knox, Jr., 1955 (K1955.6) © 2008 The Willem de Kooning Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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