Barnett Newman was the most original and influential artist to emerge in the United States in the decade following World War II. Following his "breakthrough" in 1948 in Onement I--a small painting with a red-orange vertical stripe centered on a red-brown ground--Newman developed his art organically and intensely, expressing his themes of creation and creativity over the next two decades in an astonishing number of true master works. This abundantly illustrated volume, by the late Harold Rosenberg, dean of American art critics, brings together for the first time reproductions in color of almost every one of Newman's paintings, as well as most of the drawings, watercolors, works in mixed media, sculpture, etchings, lithographs, and architecture.