Global art and the Cold War / John J. Curley.
2018
N72.P6 C87 2018 (Mapit)
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Title
Global art and the Cold War / John J. Curley.
Author
Curley, John J., author.
ISBN
9781786272294 (hardcover)
1786272296 (hardcover)
1786272296 (hardcover)
Published
London : Laurence King Publishing, 2018.
Language
English
Description
288 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm.
Call Number
N72.P6 C87 2018
Dewey Decimal Classification
701.0309045
Summary
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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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.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 274-280) and index.
Series
Global perspectives series.
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