Natalie Adamson is Professor in the School of Art History, University of St Andrews, Scotland. Her research and teaching are focused on the art, politics and cultural history of twentieth-century France, and its international and transnational relations around the world; practices of painting, especially abstraction; surrealism; and the history of photography. Publications include essays on Pierrette Bloch, Sam Francis, John Hoyland, Herbert Read, Édouard Pignon and Pierre Soulages, and the books Painting, Politics and the Struggle for the École de Paris, 1944-1964 (2009) and Material Imagination: Postwar European Art, 1946-1971 (2017). A monograph on the abstract painting practice of Pierre Soulages is forthcoming with Yale University Press.