Between Point Zero and the Iron Curtain

International Cooperation in Art at the Postwar Moment, 1945-1948
Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-90-04-71063-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 45, 400 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 699 g

Reihe: Avant-Garde Critical Studies

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 pre-war modernism, as well as creating the new era's new artistic lingua franca.

The chapters include in-depth case studies that analyze the complex, often interconnected, projects throughout the world—South America and Eastern and Western Europe—that were soon ended by the Cold War.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Forgács, Éva

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 20./21. Jahrhundert

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Éva Forgács, Ph.D. (1992), is an Adjunct Professor at Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, and Professor Emerita of the László Moholy-Nagy University, Budapest. Her publications include Malevich and Interwar Modernism (Bloomsbury, 2022) and other monographs and essays on Modernism and contemporary art and culture.