The works of the New York School are considered expressions of private emotions

devoid of any reference to the political and social reality in which their authors lived. Is that true? What kind of relationship did the abstract expressionists have with the anguishing events that took place in the United States during the Great Depression? Should we regard the period of the Great Crisis merely as a historical precedent for Abstract Expressionism? What are the connections between the exponents of the movement and the political and social ferment of this particular historical period?