books.google.ca - The notion that the practice of abstraction was confined to Western Europe while a stereotyped form of figuration defined the art of the Eastern bloc continues to dominate art historical accounts of public sculpture of the post-war period. This book offers a number of alternative readings, and demonstrates...http://books.google.ca/books/about/Figuration_abstraction.html?id=QjtehV6dFZ4C&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareFiguration/abstraction