中文简介：

这是**部关于生活在战后巴黎的美国创意社区的实质性、学术性综述，包括对美国和法国艺术家、评论家和经销商的私密采访。本书深入研究了二战后生活在法国的艺术家的各个圈子，以新的学术成果和富有启发性的文章为特色，展示了1946年至1962年间创作的许多绘画、雕塑、素描、版画、照片和电影。本书介绍了第二次世界大战后居住在巴黎的美国创意社区的故事，提出将巴黎作为战后美国艺术发展的决定性地点，调查了许多这些艺术家学习的学院、他们的作品展出的空间、激发他们对话的美学话语、他们与欧洲艺术家的互动，以及作为一个海外美国人意味着什么这一首要问题。

英文简介：

The first substantial, scholarly overview of the American creative community living in postwar Paris, featuring never-before-published interviews with Americans and French artists, critics, and dealers.This book delves into the various circles of artists who lived in France following World War II. Featuring new scholarship and illuminating essays, the groundbreaking volume illustrates many of the paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, photos, and films produced between 1946 and 1962. Americans in Paris introduces the story of the American creative community that inhabited the City of Lights following the Second World War. Proposing Paris as decisive for the development of postwar American art, this volume investigates the academies where many of these artists studied, the spaces where their work was exhibited, the aesthetic discourses that animated their conversations, their interactions with European artists, and the overarching issue of what it meant to be an American abroad.