An American Odyssey, 1945/1980 [Debating Modernism] - Stephen C. Foster (Author)

An American Odyssey examines the early avant-garde movements in the United States, which reached maturity after the definitive shift of the world's artistic center from Paris to New York, following World War II. This unique survey of works from public and private collections will re-examine American art post World War II and its relationship to modernism and competing art movements such as Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, Post-Painterly Abstraction, New Realism, Assemblage and Environments, and Minimalism. Many of the exhibition's featured artists lived and worked in New York.

The exhibition publication for An American Odyssey, Curator Stephen Foster showcases works from some of the most significant artists of the 20th century, including: Jim Dine, Willem de Kooning, Andy Warhol, George Segal, Mark Rothko, Richard Pousette-Dart, Frank Stella, Robert Motherwell, Roy Lichtenstein, Louise Nevelson, Sol Le Witt, Frank Kline.