Abstract Expressionism is commonly regarded as a style

capable of giving voice to personal fears, to the anxiety hidden in the secluded realm of the unconscious. Is the existential anxiety that shows through the works of the New York School exclusively linked to the personal experience of the exponents of the movement? What were the effects of the upheavals caused by the second world war on the genesis of Abstract Expressionism? How did the conflict put the United States in contact with Europe? What were the effects of the encounter between these two different realities and cultures?