Roots: The psychology of crisis: the historical roots of abstract expressionism -- Propaedeutics: the intellectual roots of abstract expressionism -- The artists : Clyfford Still: of plenitude and power -- Mark Rothko: "In my beginning is my end" -- Adolph Gottlieb: the allegorical epic -- Barnett Newman: new beginnings -- William Baziotes: tremors of history -- Jackson Pollock: ancient energies -- William de Kooning: a fever of matter -- Robert Motherwell: the school of Paris meets New York -- The expansiveness of abstract expressionism -- Transformations : Vernacular abstraction: the domestication of abstract expressionism.
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