Description: A new history of postwar painting that explores how the desire to look backward shaped some of the period's most radical artmaking
Review Quotes: "Nelson writes against the modernist and postmodernist tropes of break, breakthrough, and radiant new light. The result is a gravely beautiful reimagining of well-known and less well-known art, strung along a tensile argument that flows from first page to last."--Alexander Nemerov, author of Fierce Poise: Helen Frankenthaler and 1950s New York
"A genuinely intelligent and substantial study, Never Ending offers a fresh perspective on tendencies in postwar 'modernist' painting that conventional wisdom has overlooked."--Alex Potts, author of Experiments in Modern Realism: World Making in Postwar European and American Art