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Two Kassels: Same Time, Another Space.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- György
- Series:
- dOCUMENTA (13): 100 Notes, 100 Thoughts ; 16
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art--Exhibitions.
- Art--History.
- Art.
- Historiography.
- Art History.
- Exhibitions.
- Genre:
- Tracts (Ephemera)
- Pamphlets.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Place of Publication:
- Hatje Cantz, 2012.
- [Place of publication not identified], Hatje Cantz, 2012.
- Summary:
- "For the first documenta in Kassel in 1955, Arnold Bode decided to exhibit European modernism and works by contemporary West German artists in the same galleries to demonstrate the unity of contemporary Western culture, which is the universal character of modernist culture. Kassel is a city with today almost 200,000 inhabitants that found itself "relocated" from the center of Germany to the inter-German borderland after 1945, and documenta came about as a part of the program of Cold War cultural policy. The exhibition was a clear indication that the country, which strongly opposed Communism, was and would remain thoroughly committed to unrestricted artistic freedom and thus an integral part of Western civilization. The self-evidence of the analogousness of Westkunst and Weltkunst-Western art and world art-was performed by the exhibition "Westkunst: Zeitgenössische Kunst seit 1939," curated by Laszlo Glozer and Kasper König in Cologne in 1981, which anchored the hypothesis that abstraction was the universal world language..."-- provided by distributor.
- Notes:
- Archived and cataloged by Library Stack
- Standard Copyright.
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