A
wrecked church in Coutances, 1944
Abstract Expressionism is commonly regarded as a style
capable of giving
voice to personal fears, to the anxiety hidden in the secluded realm
of the unconscious. Is the existential anxiety that shows through
the works of the New
York School
exclusively linked to the personal experience of the exponents of
the movement? What were the effects of the upheavals caused by the
second world war on the genesis of Abstract Expressionism? How did
the conflict put the United States
in contact with Europe? What were
the effects of the encounter between these two different realities
and cultures?