Presents major members of the New York School.

Fontana (1899-1968) blurred the lines between painting and sculpture by creating works that combined both form and color in a spatial context. From his early work in collaborating with architects through his years in Buenos Aires, and his light installations of the early 1950s, this book covers the career of Italy's pioneering abstract artist.

Dutch-born American painter Willem de Kooning (1904-1997) was a leader of the abstract expressionist movement. Inspired by Arshile Gorky to abandon the realist style that had dominated his work in the 1930s, he began experimenting with abstraction in the 1940s and quickly gained critical success.