How New York Stole the Idea of Modern Art: Abstract Expressionism, Freedom and the Cold War

1) New York, 1935–1941: the de-Marxization of the intelligentsia. 2) The second World War and the attempt to establish an independent American art. 3) The creation of an American avant-garde, 1945–1947. 4) Success: how New York stole the notion of modernism from Parisians, 1948. 5) Conclusion.