id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-3759 New York School (art) - Wikipedia .html text/html 2373 309 70 They often drew inspiration from surrealism and the contemporary avant-garde art movements, in particular action painting, abstract expressionism, jazz, improvisational theater, experimental music, and the interaction of friends in the New York City art world's vanguard circle. Concerning the New York School poets, critics argued that their work was a reaction to the Confessionalist movement in Contemporary Poetry. The term also refers to a circle of composers in the 1950s which included John Cage, Morton Feldman, Earle Brown and Christian Wolff.[29] Their music influenced the music and events of the Fluxus group, and drew its name from the Abstract Expressionist painters above. Marika Herskovic, American Abstract Expressionism of the 1950s An Illustrated Survey, (New York School Press, 2003.) Statutes of Liberty, The New York School of Poets, Geoff Ward, Second Edition, 2001. The Last Avant-Garde: The Making of the New York School of Poets, David Lehman, 1998. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-3759.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-3759.txt