Global art and the Cold War /
John J. Curley presents the first synthetic account of global art during the Cold War. Through a careful examination of artworks drawn from America, Europe, Russia and Asia, he demonstrates the inextricable nature of art and politics in this contentious period. He dismantles the usual narrative of A...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London :
Laurence King Publishing,
2018.
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| Series: | Global perspectives series.
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| Summary: | John J. Curley presents the first synthetic account of global art during the Cold War. Through a careful examination of artworks drawn from America, Europe, Russia and Asia, he demonstrates the inextricable nature of art and politics in this contentious period. He dismantles the usual narrative of American abstract painting versus figurative Soviet Socialist Realism to reveal a much more nuanced, contradictory and ambivalent picture of art making, in which the objects themselves, like spies, dissembled, housed and managed ideological differences. |
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| Physical Description: | 288 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 274-280) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1786272296 9781786272294 |