Postwar revisited : toward a global art history, ca. 1945-1965 / Okwui Enwezor and Atreyee Gupta, eds.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Enwezor, Okwui, editor.

Gupta, Atreyee, editor.

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art, Modern--20th century.

Art, Modern.

Modernism (Art).

Art--History.

Art.

Decolonization in art.

Art and globalization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxi, 335 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2025.

Summary:

Okwui Enwezor's 2016 exhibition, "Postwar: Art Between the Pacific and the Atlantic, 1945-1965," redefined the history of art produced in those two decades. Nearly a decade later, Postwar Revisited returns to these debates to present an image of a historical period in which Western conceptions of art, aesthetics, and philosophy are all thrown into intense flux after Auschwitz and Hiroshima while the cultural energies of decolonization generate myriad artistic and intellectual practices that re-engage the links that connect art to life itself. Focusing on modernist artists, artist collectives, and architects canonical to dissonant regional traditions as well as traveling exhibitions and patronage systems, the contributors produce a new understanding of emergent postwar global art. Provoking new ways of thinking, engaging, and narrating art history, Postwar Revisited is an essential reading for those interested in debates on global art history and global modernism, the intersections between art and decolonization, the cultural aspects of the Cold War and the Non-Aligned Movement, and modern and contemporary art more generally."-- Publisher's description.

Contents:

Europe in Transition

Creaturely Cobra / Hal Foster

Decolonizing Modernism/s : Transversal Histories and the Slade School of Fine Art / Ming Tiampo

The Soviet Bloc and Communist China

Soviet Art before and after the Thaw / Boris Groys

Rent Collection Courtyard, the "Atomic Bomb of the Art World" / Vivian Li

Pacific Passages, Atlantic Oscillations

Godzilla's Schizophrenia : Americanization and Amnesia in Postwar Japan / Alexandra Munroe

The Work of Salvage : Jess, Allegory, and the Atomic Bomb / Tara McDowell

"The Eternal Modernity of the Church" : Art in the Sugar Mill and the University in the Philippines / Patrick D. Flores

Antipodean Vision : Postwar Arts in Australia and the South Pacific / Terry Smith

Integración plástica : The Postwar Synthesis of the Arts as Seen from Mexico in 1952 / Jennifer Josten

Ancient Modernisms : Illegibility, Women, and 1950s Weaving / Jenni Sorkin

Decolonizing Constellations

Postwar Abstraction : Similarities, Differences, and Other Ophthalmologic Conundrums / Atreyee Gupta

Enemy of the People : Jewad Selim and the Baghdad Group for Modern Art / Nada Shabout

Decolonization and Calligraphic Abstraction / Iftikhar Dadi

Postwar Imaginings : Négritude Legacies and Thwarted Universalisms in Dakar and Paris / Elizabeth Harney.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Postwar revisited.

ISBN:

9781478060437

1478060433

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