TY - BOOK AU - Sandler, Irving TI - The Triumph of American Painting: : A history of abstract expressionism SN - 0-064300757 PY - 1970/// PB - Icon Editions; Harper & Row Publishers; KW - ND49-813 HistoryAbstract Expressionism N2 - Historical survey and critical appraisal of abstract expressionism, starting with a description of the sociopolitical, economic, and cultural millieu of the Depression years, including the Federal Art Project administered by thje Works Progress Administration. An account of the 1940s, when Cuban and Surrealist trends prediominated in America, and a detailed analysis of the flowering of Abstract Expressionism in New York in 1950s. ER -