Introduction : internationalism and abstract expressionism / Joan Marter
The birth of abstract expressionism / Helen A. Harrison
Implications of nationalism for abstract expressionism / Dore Ashton
Disdain for the stain : abstract expressionism and tachisme / Serge Guilbaut
A legacy for the Latin American left : abstract expressionism as anti-imperialist art / David Craven
Abstract expressionism as a model of "contemporary art" in the Soviet Union / Jane A. Sharp
A new beginning : abstraction and the myth of the "Zero hour" / Gottfried Boehm
Ironic gestures : Asger Jorn, Informel, and abstract expressionism / Karen Kurczynski
Greenberg misreading Dubuffet / Kent Minturn
Abstract expressionism's Italian reception : questions of influence / Adrian R. Duran
The view from the East : the reception of Jackson Pollock among Japanese Gutai artists / Lewis Kachur
Mexico and American modernism : the case of Jackson Pollock / Ellen G. Landau
Pollock and America, too / Stephen Polcari
The ultimate challenge for Alred H. Barr, Jr. : transforming the ecology of American culture, 1924-1943 / Annie Cohen-Solal
African American contributions to abstract expressionism / Ann Gibson.