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Postwar : art between the Pacific and the Atlantic, 1945-1965 / edited by Okwui Enwezor, Katy Siegel, Ulrich Wilmes.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Haus der Kunst München--Catalogs.
- Haus der Kunst München.
- Haus der Kunst München--Exhibitions.
- Art, European--20th century.
- Art, European.
- Art, American--20th century.
- Art, American.
- Art and war.
- Genre:
- Catalogs.
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Physical Description:
- 846 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 30 cm
- Edition:
- English edition.
- Other Title:
- Art between the Pacific and the Atlantic, 1945-1965
- Place of Publication:
- Munich ; New York : Haus der Kunst : Prestel, [2016]
- Contents:
- Patron's statement / Dr. Frank-Walter Steinmeier
- Bavarian state minister's statement / Dr. Ludwig Spaenle
- Prefaces / Johannes Ebert, Hortensia Völcker, Alexander Farenholtz
- Director's foreword / Okwui Enwezor
- Curators' acknowledgments / Okwui Enwezor, Katy Siegel, Ulrich Wilmes
- Introductory essays : The judgment of art: postwar and artistic worldliness / Okwui Enwezor ; Art, world, history / Katy Siegel ; Postwar: denazification and reeducation / Ulrich Wilmes ; Postwar: the melancholy history of a term / Mark Mazower ; Legacies of Bandung: decolonization and the politics of culture / Dipesh Chakrabarty
- Visual essays and chronologies : Visual essay: social and political events ; Chronology of social and political events ; Visual essay: arts and culture ; Chronology of arts and culture / compiled by Damian Lentini and Daniel Milnes
- Exhibition sections. 1. Aftermath: zero hour and the atomic era : Section introduction ; Imagining a city through photography / Yasufumi Nakamori ; "Forms disintegrate": painting in the shadow of the bomb / Stephen Petersen ; The natural history of rape / Ariella Azoulay
- 2. Form matters : Section introduction ; The dirt paradigm / Emily Braun ; When identity becomes "form": calligraphic abstraction and Sudanese modernism / Salah M. Hassan ; Material facture / Geeta Kapur ; 0 to 1 / Richard Shiff ; Abstraction and ideology: contestation in Cold War art criticism / Terry Smith
- 3. New images of man : Section introduction ; Germany's postwar search for a new image of man / Yule Heibel ; New images of man: postwar humanism and its challenges in the West / Sarah Wilson ; Remembering Fanon: self, psyche, and the colonial condition / Homi K. Bhabha
- 4. Realisms : Section introduction ; Whatever happened to realism after 1945?: figuration and politics in the Western hemisphere / Alejandro Anreus ; Commitment to humility / Ekaterina Degot ; Exchangeable realism / Anneka Lenssen ; The historical logic of Chinese Nationalist realism from the 1940s to the 1960s / Gao Minglu ; Realism as international style / Nikolas Drosos and Romy Golan
- 5. Concrete visions : Section introduction ; Out of words: the spacetime of concrete poetry / Pedro Erber ; Simultaneous abstractions and postwar Latin American art / Andrea Giunta ; The necessity of concreteness: a view from the (global?) south / Mari Carmen Ramirez
- 6. Cosmopolitan modernisms : Section introduction ; Baghdad modernism / Zainab Bahrani ; Plural modernities: a history of a cosmopolitan modernity / Catherine Grenier ; Exiles, émigrés and cosmopolitans: London's postwar art world / Courtney J. Martin ; The Black cosmopolitans / Tobias Wofford ; Cosmopolitan contaminations: artists, objects, media / Damian Lentini
- 7. Nations seeking form : Section introduction ; Channels for democratic iteration / Galia Bar Or ; After Bandung: transacting the nation in a postcolonial world / Atreyee Gupta ; Fanon, national culture, and the politics of form in postwar Africa / Chika Okeke-Agulu
- 8. Networks, media & communication : Section introduction ; Art in the network of technological media and mass communication: new tendencies / Ješa Denegri ; True grid / Walter Grasskamp ; Reframing the Independent Group / Anne Massey ; The cybernetic vision in postwar art / Pamela M. Lee and Fred Turner.
- Notes:
- Catalog of the exhibition held at the Haus of Kunst, Munich from October 14, 2016 to March 26, 2017.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9783791355849
- 3791355848
- OCLC:
- 946482559
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