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With his La Peinture efficace: une histoire de l’abstraction aux Etats-Unis (1910-1960), Eric de Chassey is intent upon championing a particular thesis: abstraction, in the United States, is not a style but a method permitting a communication or communion with the beholder. Drawing on the aesthetics of reception, he doesn’t shy away from quoting artists, critics and journalists, and as a rule keeps his distance from the works themselves. The introduction tosses this staggering declaration at ...