Global Art and the Cold War
$96.37
- Hardcover
288 pages
- Release Date
27 January 2019
Summary
In this readable and highly original book, 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…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781786272294 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1786272296 |
| Author: | John J. Curley |
| Publisher: | Laurence King Publishing |
| Imprint: | Laurence King Publishing |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 27 January 2019 |
| Weight: | 1.01kg |
| Dimensions: | 240mm x 165mm |
| Series: | Global Perspectives Art History |
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Critics Review
“It is not often that one comes across a book on contemporary, or near contemporary, art that shifts one’s view of what it is, how it has developed, and that direction those developments are likely to take in future. Here, however, is one such book” – Artlyst
About The Author
John J. Curley
John J. Curley is Associate Professor of Art History at Wake Forest University. He has published widely on European and American modernism in art and is the author of A Conspiracy of Images: Andy Warhol, Gerhard Richter, and the Art of the Cold War.
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