Global art and the Cold War
Curley, John J.2018
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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.
Main title:
Global art and the Cold War / John J. Curley.
Author:
Curley, John J., author
Imprint:
London : Laurence King Publishing, 2018.
Collation:
288 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 25 cm.
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Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Audience:
Specialized.
ISBN:
9781786272294 (hbk. :)
Dewey class:
701.030904701.03 CURL
Language:
English
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BRN:
1138453
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