Global Art and the Cold War

by John J. Curley

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Editor(s)

John J. Curley

Publication, year

London : Laurence King Publishing, 2018

Scope

288 Pages, illustrated, 24 cm.

ISBN

9781786272294

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John J. Curley presents the first synthetic account of global art during the Cold War. Through a careful examination of artworks drawn from America, Europe, Russia and Asia, he demonstrates the inextricable nature of art and politics in this contentious period. He dismantles the usual narrative of American abstract painting versus figurative Soviet Socialist Realism to reveal a much more nuanced, contradictory and ambivalent picture of art making, in which the objects themselves, like spies, dissembled, housed and managed ideological differences.

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Location

Cabinet 29 - 3: Expanded Space ; Global Art ; Algemeen

Remarks

Incl. bibliographical references and Index