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THE SHAPE OF FREEDOM GEBUNDEN

This book gives new insights into the flowering of radical abstraction after 1945  focussing on
the creative interplay between painters in the wider orbit of Abstract Expressionism and Art
Informel. Following World War II  Western painting went in completely new directions. A young
generation of artists turned their backs on the dominant styles of the interwar period: 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. As an expression of individual freedom  the spontaneous
artistic gesture gained symbolic significance. Large-scale color-field compositions created a
meditative space for ruminating the fundamental questions of human existence. The exhibition
and catalogue examine the two sister movements against the background of a vibrant
transatlantic exchange  from the 1940s through to the end of the Cold War. The lavishly
illustrated volume brings together works by more than 60 artists  amongst them Sam Francis 
Helen Frankenthaler  K. O. Götz  Franz Kline  Lee Krasner  Georges Mathieu  Joan Mitchell 
Ernst-Wilhelm Nay  Barnett Newman  Jackson Pollock  Judit Reigl  Mark Rothko  and Clyfford
Still.

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