Rethinking Postwar Europe : Artistic Production and Discourses on Art in the late 1940s and 1950s

Elisabeth Ansel

ISBN 10: 3412514004 / ISBN 13: 9783412514006

Published by Böhlau, Brill Deutschland Gmbh Dez 2019, 2019

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Neuware - The book 'Rethinking Postwar Europe' offers an in-depth insight into the largely unexplored topic of artistic practices in the 1940s and 1950s in Europe which until recently had been obscured by ideologies of the Cold War. Thanks to the authors' diverse methodological backgrounds, the volume presents - for the first time - a comprehensive multilayered narrative, focusing on the complexities and entanglements in the artistic field. Instead of assessing the postwar period in the traditional way as divided by the Iron Curtain, the contributions investigate processes of contact, interaction, dissemination, overlapping, and networking. Consequently, the analysis of a diversified European modernism in both its aesthetic and its socio-political dimension resonates with all the different case studies. In particular, the volume looks at how artists developed, designed and (re)negotiated identities and discourses, and sheds new light on the power of art - and creative powers in general - in a postwar setting of mutilations, losses, and devastations.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Rethinking Postwar Europe : Artistic Production and Discourses on Art in the late 1940s and 1950s
• Publisher: Böhlau, Brill Deutschland Gmbh Dez 2019
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3412514004
• ISBN 13: 9783412514006
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 237W x 158H x 23D millimeters 237 millimeters width by 158 millimeters height by 23 millimeters depth
• Weight: 692 grams

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Synopsis

The book "Rethinking Postwar Europe" offers an in-depth insight into the largely unexplored topic of artistic practices in the 1940s and 1950s in Europe which until recently had been obscured by ideologies of the Cold War. Thanks to the authors' diverse methodological backgrounds, the volume presents - for the first time - a comprehensive multilayered narrative, focusing on the complexities and entanglements in the artistic field. Instead of assessing the postwar period in the traditional way as divided by the Iron Curtain, the contributions investigate processes of contact, interaction, dissemination, overlapping, and networking. Consequently, the analysis of a diversified European modernism in both its aesthetic and its socio-political dimension resonates with all the different case studies. In particular, the volume looks at how artists developed, designed and (re)negotiated identities and discourses, and sheds new light on the power of art - and creative powers in general - in a postwar setting of mutilations, losses, and devastations.

About the Author

Barbara Lange hat den Lehrstuhl fur Kunstgeschichte an der Universitat Tubingen inne und leitet dort das DFG-Projekt "Europa nach dem Krieg - Die Potenziale der Kunst in den spaten 1940er und den 1950er Jahren". Dirk Hildebrandt ist wissenschaftlicher Assistent im Fachbereich Moderne und Gegenwart am Kunsthistorischen Institut der Universitat zu Koln.