Description: This publication is an important contribution to telling the fuller story of the development of postwar American painting. Karen Wilkin's essay provides a welcome, broad, and engaged understanding figuration's richness and depth of achievement in the United States following in the wake of Hans Hofmann and Abstract Expressionism.
Brief description: Karen Wilkin is an independent curator and art critic specializing in twentieth-cen- tury Modernism. She has organized numerous exhibitions internationally and is the author of monographs on Stuart Davis, David Smith, Anthony Caro, Kenneth No- land, Helen Frankenthaler, and Hans Hofmann, among many others.