"American artist Charles Seliger is the last of the Abstract Expressionists. The youngest painter to exhibit with the original artists of the Abstract Expressionist movement, his first exhibition was at Peggy Guggenheim's legendary Art of This Century gallery in 1945. Like many artists of his generation, Seliger was deeply influenced by the Surrealists' method of painting based on free association, and throughout his career he has developed these ideas and techniques into a consistently evocative body of work. However, unlike his early associates - including Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and Clyfford Still - Seliger has not adopted a monumental scale, preferring instead to keep his abstractions on a more intimate level." This volume illustrates the refinement and complexity of Seliger's painting techniques and includes many full-page, close-up details of his remarkable surfaces. These detailed illustrations are accompanied by an essay about Seliger's art and a detailed documentary chronology of his life and career, which serves as an important narrative of the American art world from the 1940s to the present. This book offers a rare opportunity to trace the diverse history of American art through the work of an artist who has expanded the deeply personal ideals and methods of the Abstract Expressionists into the digital world of the twenty-first century.