The issues confronting all young artists, musicians, poets, and dancers throughout the century have been the same: you've got to determine how to stand out, to find your own voice, to be heard above the noise. In decade after decade, American artists from across the United States joined with artists arriving in New York from all corners of the globe to participate in the richest and most tangled cultural experiment in history. In the period directly after World War II, when the mix was particularly complex, what took place was in fact nothing short of revolutionary. Never before had America been the site of this kind of cultural explosion, and the exhilarating struggle it produced deeply shook this nation and the world.

DAVID A. ROSS

FOREWORD

THELMA GOLDEN

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

THELMA GOLDEN

INTRODUCTION

JUDITH WILSON

GARDEN OF MUSIC

THE ART AND LIFE OF BOB THOMPSON

PLATES

SHAMIM MOMIN

COMMENTARIES

SELECTED EXHIBITION HISTORY

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

WORKS IN THE EXHIBITION