
Postwar
Art Between the Pacific and the Atlantic, 1945 1965
Prestel (Publisher)
Published on 22. November 2016
Book
Hardback
800 pages
978-3-7913-5584-9 (ISBN)
Description
This unprecedented global survey of the art of the postwar era represents a comprehensive examination of the production of art across all continents, under the conditions engendered by World War II. Accompanying the exhibition Postwar: Art between the Pacific and the Atlantic, 1945 1965, this extensive catalogue presents the work of more than 200 artists from over 50 countries. Uniquely, it understands the term "postwar" as a truly global condition, focusing on the increasingly interdependent nature of the world as the result of new geopolitical affinities and technological realities. The catalogue illuminates how these epochal social changes manifested worldwide across the practices of painting, sculpture, installation, performance, cinema, and music, through eight thematic sections: Aftermath: Zero Hour and the Atomic Era; Form Matters; New Images of Man; Realisms; Concrete Visions; Cosmopolitan Modernisms; Nations Seeking Form; and Networks, Media, and Communication. Key historical texts, visual essays, color illustrations, and over 35 original contributions by leading international art historians, curators, and scholars offer new insights into the complex legacies of artistic practice and art historical discourses that emerged in the aftermath of World War II s devastation. Artists biographies, a comprehensive bibliography, and chronologies of the postwar period further supplement what will become an indispensable resource for future research."
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Language
English
Place of publication
Munich
Germany
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
650 Illustrations, color
Dimensions
Height: 289 mm
Width: 230 mm
Weight
4601 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-7913-5584-9 (9783791355849)
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Persons
OKWUI ENWEZOR is Director of Haus der Kunst in Munich, Germany. KATY SIEGEL is the Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw Endowed Chair in Modern American Art and Professor of Art History at Stony Brook University in Stony Brook, New York. ULRICH WILMES is Chief Curator of Haus der Kunst in Munich, Germany.