Rethinking Postwar Europe (eBook)

Artistic Production and Discourses on Art in the late 1940s and 1950s

Barbara Lange, Dirk Hildebrandt, Agata Pietrasik (Herausgeber)

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2019
268 Seiten
Böhlau Verlag Köln
978-3-412-51401-3 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Autor

Barbara Lange hatte bis zur Verabschiedung in den Ruhestand 2022 den Lehrstuhl für Kunstgeschichte an der Universität Tübingen inne. Das Buch stellt die zentralen Ergebnisse des von ihr geleiteten DFG-Projekts "Europa nach dem Krieg - Die Potenziale der Kunst in den späten 1940er und den 1950er Jahren" vor.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 9.12.2019
• Co-Autor: Elisabeth Ansel, Éva Forgács, Hildegard Frübis, Regine Heß, Dirk Hildebrandt, Barbara Lange, Petro Lapa, Agata Pietrasik, Simon Vagts, Regina Wenninger, Tanja Zimmermann
• Zusatzinfo: with 51 fig.
• Verlagsort: Göttingen
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Malerei / Plastik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
• Schlagworte: Europa /Kultur • Europa /Kultur, Künste • Kunst der Nachkriegszeit • Kunstdiskurs • Künste • Kunstproduktion • Nachkriegszeit (Weltkrieg II)
• ISBN-10: 3-412-51401-2 / 3412514012
• ISBN-13: 978-3-412-51401-3 / 9783412514013