The Avant-Garde Won’t Give Up: Cobra and Its Legacy

This definitive book on the renowned
postwar avant-garde artistic movement
offers a comprehensive insight into Cobra’s
history and achievements, and explores its
lasting influences on contemporary art. The European artistic collective known as Cobra was born in
the wake of World War II’s devastating events, its name an
acronym for the native cities of its founders: Copenhagen,
Amsterdam, and Brussels. The influential group of painters
and sculptors had a tremendous impact on the development
of European Abstract Expressionism, and contemporary art in
general.