A Conspiracy of Images : Andy Warhol, Gerhard Richter, and the Art of the Cold War /

In October 1962, a set of blurred surveillance photographs brought the world to the brink of nuclear apocalypse during the Cuban missile crisis. The pictures themselves demonstrated little, and explanatory captions were necessary to identify the danger for the public. In the following months, two ar...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Curley, John J.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New Haven, Connecticut : Yale University Press, [2013]
Subjects:	Art, Modern > 20th century > Themes, motives. Art and society > History > 20th century. Warhol, Andy, > 1928-1987 > Criticism and interpretation. Richter, Gerhard, > 1932- > Criticism and interpretation. Cold War > Influence.

Table of Contents:

Introduction. The art that came in from the cold
Failures of containment: the case of postwar abstraction
The development of Andy Warhol's pop eye
Socialist realism and Gerhard Richter's 'third way'
Paranoid styles: Warhol's and Richter's conspiracy theories of painting
The uncontained image: the politics of Warhol's and Richter's blur
Conclusion. Art and illusion: Cold War art history.