Sawin's rich year-by-year narrative documents the cultural transfer that took place when the greater part of the prewar Surrealist group was transplanted to the

An absorbing group biography revealing how exiles from war-torn France brought surrealism to America, sparking the movement that became abstract expressionism.

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Bringing a poet’s perspective to an artist’s archive, this highly original book examines wordplay in the art and thought of American artist Gordon Matta-Cla