New York Mid-Century Post-War Capital of Culture, 1945-1965

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A fascinating study of New York’s influence as the cultural capital of the postwar world, powerfully told by three renowned authorities in their respective fields. New York Mid-Century tells the story of how the Big Apple influenced as the cultural capital of the post-war world in all fields  from art, architecture and design to music, theatre and dance. It was a period of intense cross-fertilization, as poets and critics mixed with artists, dealers, musicians, , architects, dancers, designers and choreographers.Richly illustrated with hundreds of paintings, , photographs, elevations, plans, drawings, posters, playbills and ephemera, New York Mid-Century is a stirring evocation of a fertile period in the city’s history, the aesthetics and styles of which are now very much back in vogue. Annie Cohen-Solal brings alive the influential patronsc and ritics , the legendary galleries, and the artists themselves, from Rothko, Pollock, and de Kooning to Johns, Warhol and Rauschenberg . Paul Goldberger presents th