ARGONAUT BOOKS

An absorbing group biography revealing how exiles from war-torn France brought Surrealism to America, helping to shift the centre of the art world from Paris to New York and spark the movement that became Abstract Expressionism. Reviews 'I couldn't believe the book hadn't been written' - Robert Storr, art historian and ex-MoMA curator'Charles Darwent's Surrealists in New York shows that Surrealism, not Expressionism, was the European mode that was truly abstracted in New York ... Darwent's book … tells the real story' - Literary Review'It is a bold...Read More