- Summary
- This book offers an in-depth insight into the largely unexplored topic of artistic practices in the 1940s and 1950s in Europe which until recently had been obscured by ideologies of the Cold War. Thanks to the authors diverse methodological backgrounds, the volume presents for the first time a comprehensive multilayered narrative, focusing on the complexities and entanglements in the artistic field.0Instead of assessing the postwar period in the traditional way as divided by the Iron Curtain, the contributions investigate processes of contact, interaction, dissemination, overlapping, and networking. Consequently, the analysis of a diversified European modernism in both its aesthetic and its socio-political dimension resonates with all the different case studies. In particular, the volume looks at how artists developed, designed and (re)negotiated identities and discourses, and sheds new light on the power of art and creative powers in general in a postwar setting of mutilations, losses, and devastations.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- Wien : Böhlau Verlag, [2020]
- Locale
- Europe
- Contents
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Europe, a challenge / Barbara Lange, Dirk Hildebrandt, and Agata Pietrasik
Shaping the narrative of a new Europe in art : Willem Sandberg and the Stedelijk Museum of Amsterdam's retrieval of Malevich / Éva Forgács
Bodies, factories, and islands : Roberto Rossellini mapping catastrophe / Simon Vagts
Community and communism : Asger Jorn's concept of ceramics / Barbara Lange
The politics of Asger Jorn's modification : writing a network of European postwar art / Dirk Hildebrandt
Imagining the future of postwar Europe : an international artist settlement in Mauthausen / Agata Pietrasik
Europe as transit : Jewish displaced-persons camps and the photographs of Roman Vishniac / Hildegard Frübis
Overcoming ideological barriers? : how West German art critics appropriated Polish abstract art / Regina Wenninger
Primitivism and naïveté as categories of political aesthetics : early approaches against eurocentrism in art criticism after the Second World War / Tanja Zimmermann
Joaquim Rodrigo's painting : a particularity in the Portuguese case / Pedro Lapa
"Emancipated from provincial myth" : the Irish artist Louis le Brocquy in the context of national debates and European modernism / Elisabeth Ansel
Display, discuss, and build : German architectural congresses and exhibitions between continuity and cold war / Regine Heiss.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Lange, Barbara, editor.
Hildebrandt, Dirk, editor.
Pietrasik, Agata, 1985- editor.
- Notes
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Europe, a challenge / Barbara Lange, Dirk Hildebrandt, and Agata Pietrasik -- Shaping the narrative of a new Europe in art : Willem Sandberg and the Stedelijk Museum of Amsterdam's retrieval of Malevich / Éva Forgács -- Bodies, factories, and islands : Roberto Rossellini mapping catastrophe / Simon Vagts -- Community and communism : Asger Jorn's concept of ceramics / Barbara Lange -- The politics of Asger Jorn's modification : writing a network of European postwar art / Dirk Hildebrandt -- Imagining the future of postwar Europe : an international artist settlement in Mauthausen / Agata Pietrasik -- Europe as transit : Jewish displaced-persons camps and the photographs of Roman Vishniac / Hildegard Frübis -- Overcoming ideological barriers? : how West German art critics appropriated Polish abstract art / Regina Wenninger -- Primitivism and naïveté as categories of political aesthetics : early approaches against eurocentrism in art criticism after the Second World War / Tanja Zimmermann -- Joaquim Rodrigo's painting : a particularity in the Portuguese case / Pedro Lapa -- "Emancipated from provincial myth" : the Irish artist Louis le Brocquy in the context of national debates and European modernism / Elisabeth Ansel -- Display, discuss, and build : German architectural congresses and exhibitions between continuity and cold war / Regine Heiss.
