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From a Nation Torn : Decolonizing Art and Representation in France, 1945-1962
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Feldman, Hannah.
- Series:
- Art History Publication Initiative
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art--Political aspects--France--History--19th century.
- Art--Political aspects--France--History--20th century.
- Art and state--France--History--20th century.
- Decolonization--Social aspects--France--History--20th century.
- Art--History--Political aspects--20th century--France.
- Art.
- Art and state--History--20th century--France.
- Art and state.
- Decolonization--History--Social aspects--20th century--France.
- Decolonization.
- Local Subjects:
- Art--Political aspects--France--History--19th century.
- Art--Political aspects--France--History--20th century.
- Art and state--France--History--20th century.
- Decolonization--Social aspects--France--History--20th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (334 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- From a Nation Torn provides a powerful critique of art history's understanding of French modernism and the historical circumstances that shaped its production and reception. Within art history, the aesthetic practices and theories that emerged in France from the late 1940s into the 1960s are demarcated as ""postwar."" Yet it was during these very decades that France fought a protracted series of wars to maintain its far-flung colonial empire. Given that French modernism was created during, rather than after, war, Hannah Feldman argues that its interpretation must incorporate the tu
- Contents:
- Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Art During War and the Potentialities of Decolonial Representation; I. Fragments and Façades: André Malraux and the Image of the Past as the Future of the Present; 1. Fragments; or, The Ends of Photography; 2. Façades; or, the Space of Silence; II. Between Resistance and Refusal: The Language of Art and Its Publics; 3. Sonic Youth, Sonic Space: Isidore Isou and the Lettrist Acoustics of Deterritorialization; 4. La France Déchirée: The Politics of Representation and the Spaces In-Between
- III. Reidentification: Seeing Citizens Being Seen5. "The Eye of History": Photojournalism, Protest, and the Manifestation of 17 October 1961; 6. Looking Past the State of Emergency: A Coda; Notes; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Nov 2020)
- ISBN:
- 9780822395959
- 0822395959
- OCLC:
- 868026323
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