El. knyga: Surrealists in New York: Atelier 17 and the Birth of Abstract Expressionism

'I couldnt believe the book hadnt been written' - Robert Storr, art historian and ex-MoMA curator 'Charles Darwents Surrealists in New York shows that Surrealism, not Expressionism, was the European mode that was truly abstracted in New York ... Darwents book tells the real story' - Literary Review 'It is a bold claim that the most influential abstract expressionist was an English geologist, but one he [ Darwent] proves persuasively, using detail laced with drollness' - Sunday Times 'A very readable and accessible account of a hitherto unexplored area of mainstream art history ... an important book on two counts: for its welcome reassessment of Hayter, and for the light it sheds on the links between the Surrealists and the Abstract Expressionists. Certainly it subtly alters the landscape of modern American art. Darwent writes authoritatively, marshalling a wide range of entertaining anecdotes and quotations to sustain his thesis' - The Spectator 'Diverting' - World of Interiors 'Absorbing Drawing on first-hand documents, interviews and archive materials, Charles Darwent brings to life the events and personalities from this crucial encounter. In so doing, he reveals a fascinating new perspective on the history of the art of the twentieth century' - .Cent 'Ambitious [ Darwents] account contributes significant biographical detail to the downtown network that saw mid-war Manhattan supersede Paris as the artworld capital His consistently engaging narrative paints a fuller portrait of the conversations that propelled some of the seismic shifts in canonical modern art: from automatism to formalism, Surrealism to abstraction, Paris to New York' - Art Review 'This admirably lucid and carefully researched book makes a compelling case for Hayters role in the revolution that took place in American painting during the 1940s. It is also a stark reminder that art history remains a work in progress' - The Art Newspaper 'Eight gripping chapters, across 180 pages, uncovers a largely hitherto unexplored epoch; the tail-end of French Surrealism, merging with the beginnings of American Abstract Expressionism' - Printmaking Today 'Well-researched and richly illustrated [ Darwent] provides a fascinating insight into the New York art scene in the 1940s' - British Museum Magazine