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The Oxford Dictionary of Art | 2004 | | © The Oxford Dictionary of Art 2004, originally published by Oxford University Press 2004. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

New York School. Name applied to the innovatory painters, particularly the Abstract Expressionists, who worked in New York during the 1940s and 1950s and whose critical and financial success helped the city to replace Paris as the world's leading centre of avant-garde art.

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