discussion of the abstract and expressionistic type of art made in the western world after World War II. Robert Doisneau, Hans Hartung, Piet Mondrian, Wassily Kandinsky, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Bram Van Velde, Jean Fautrier, Wols, Jean Fautrier, Robert Rauschenberg, De Kooning

Introductory address to the symposium “Hot Paint for Cold War”, sponsored by the University of British Columbia and Emily Carr College of Art & Design and held from September 25th to 27th, 1986.