Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Styles and Periods Facet
3. Styles and Periods (hierarchy name)
4. [styles, periods, and cultures by region]
5. The Americas
6. modern American
7. modern North American
8. [modern North American fine arts styles and movements]

Anotations

Scope note:

A tendency identified in New York in the early 1960s that was in direct defiance to the prevailing trend of Abstract Expressionism, and was concerned with combining figurative forms with a new non-traditionalist outlook.