Art History and Geo-Politics in an (Un-)Divided Europe
Journal: Critique d’art
Year: 2014

The Desire for Freedom: Art in Europe Since 1945, an ambitious project organized as the thirtieth edition of the Council for Europe's exhibition series, takes the novel approach of trying to fight European integration via neo-liberalism with an equally integrationist Enlightenment model of freedom posed as "critique." Beginning at the German Historical Museum in Berlin in 2012, the core project included one hundred and eighty works produced in the post-war and contemporary periods from forty mem