Catalog of an exhibition held at Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, N.Y., Sept. 19-Nov. 29, 1987.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / Michael Auping -- The formation of an avant-garde in New York / Michael Leja -- For an approach to Abstract Expressionism / Marcelin Pleynet -- Arshile Gorky: images in support of the invented self / Donald Kuspit -- The rhetoric of Abstract Expressionism / Ann Gibson -- Performing an appearance: on the surface of Abstract Expressionism / Richard Shiff -- Field notes: an interview / Lawrence Alloway -- The ugly duckling / David Sylvester -- Beyond the sublime / Michael Auping -- Works of art in the exhibition