Between Point Zero and the Iron Curtain : International Cooperation in Art and the Postwar Moment, 1945-1948 /

Between Point Zero and the Iron Curtain : International Cooperation in Art and the Postwar Moment, 1945-1948 /

This volume, edited by Éva Forgács, with contributions from art historians from across Europe and the Americas, analyzes the artistic initiatives of the short time span between the end of World War II and the onset of the Cold War. In this moment, a new internationalism was anticipated by retrieving...

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Other Authors: Forgács, Éva (Editor)

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Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2025.

Series: Avant-Garde Critical Studies ; 45.
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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • List of Figures
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Introduction
  • PART I: Local Developments
  • 1 A New Beginning: the Dresden Artists' Group Der Ruf, 1945-1948
  • Isabel Wünsche
  • 2 The Struggle for Dominating the Discourse: the Conflict between Traditionalists and Modernists in Hungary, 1945−1948
  • Edit Sasvári
  • 3 Art in Poland Immediately after the War in Search of Social Context
  • Marcin Lachowski
  • 4 In the Realm of Contradictions: Outlines of Czech Cultural Policy, 1945−1948
  • Tomas Glanc
  • PART II: Reaching Out
  • 5 The Bucharest Surrealist Group and the Networks of Post-war Surrealism
  • Imre József Balázs
  • 6 'Democratic Art par excellence'? The 1947 Polish-Czechoslovak Exchange of Modern Graphic Art Exhibitions
  • Petra Skarupsky
  • 7 The European School in Budapest, 1945−1948
  • Éva Forgács
  • 8 Cobra: Vital Manifestation
  • Sascha Bru and Éva Forgács
  • PART III: Wide Networks
  • 9 New Realities in Paris: Abstract Art and Internationalism, 1946−1950
  • Natalie Adamson
  • 10 Resilient Modernism: the 1946 Visit of Polish Architects to the United States
  • Anna Jozefacka
  • 11 Materiality and Migration in Latin American Modernism: Caracas to Buenos Aires, 1944−1950
  • Pia Gottschaller
  • 12 The Chicago Art That Wasn't, 1945−1948
  • Barbara Jaffee
  • 13 Turnabout is Fair Play: Institution Building and the Idea of International Art in São Paulo after World War II
  • Adele Nelson
  • 14 American Surrealism, Late Style: Horizontal Circulations in the 1940s
  • Tyrus Miller
  • Index.