TY - BOOK AU - Stroud,Timothy TI - 1946-1968: the birth of contemporary art SN - 9788861301948 PY - 2007/// CY - Milano, New York PB - Skira, Distributed in North America by Rizzoli International KW - Art, Modern KW - 20th century N1 - With hardcover; In the cont; Index: pp. 433-446; Cont.: Abstract expressionism, the New York school and the Pacific school -- American sculpture between surrealism and abstract expressionism -- The tradition of modern art: informalist gesture / Heinz Althöfer -- Europe: art informel, abstraction and realism -- The Nouvelle École de Paris, realism, and art informel in France -- Other centers of art informel in Europe: Germany and Spain -- Figurative explorations in Great Britain -- Neo-concrete art -- Aspects of sculpture, the international context -- Changes in taste in the 1950s and 1960s / Gillo Dorfles -- Italian art between abstraction and realism -- The 1950s: between naturalism and art informel -- Italian sculpture between tradition and innovation -- The situation in Italy (1948-1952) / Gabriella Belli -- Spatialism, CoBrA, Gutai -- CoBrA -- Gutai -- Artists and critics: notes on the debate in the 1950s and 1960s / Silvia Bordini -- Reductionist and analytic tendencies -- Neo-Dada and Nouveau Réalisme -- The tradition of modern art: the myth of everyday life / Heinz Althöfer -- Pop art -- United States -- Europe -- Italy -- The relationship between the arts in the second half of the twentieth century: 1945-1968 / Franco Sborgi -- Op art and kinetic-programmed art -- Prolegomena to body art / Lea Vergine -- Minimalism ER -