The three years in New York, from January 1962 to December 1964, when the center of the art world shifted from Europe to the United States and a new generation of curators, gallerists, and impresarios took over. Built on the scale and format of Life magazine, this oversized paperback follows it all in order, from the New Realists show at Sidney Janis Gallery in 1962 to Robert Rauschenberg’s unexpected win of the Grand Prize in Painting at the 1964 Venice Biennale.

Organized chronologically and filled with artworks, archival photographs, and the political events that shaped the moment, along with artist interviews by the late curator Germano Celant.