Natalie Adamson is a Professor in the School of Art History at the University of St Andrews. She specializes in postwar French art, abstraction, and cultural politics. She is the co-editor of several studies on twentieth-century European art and material culture and the author of Painting, Politics and the Struggle for the École de Paris, 1944-1964 and In Focus: Around the Blues 1957, 1962-3, by Sam Francis.

Richard Taws is a Professor in the History of Art Department at University College London. His work focuses on the intersections of art, media, and politics in modern France. His publications include Time Machines: Telegraphic Images in Nineteenth-Century France and The Politics of the Provisional: Art and Ephemera in Revolutionary France. He has also co-edited volumes on art, technology, and media in early modern and modern Europe.