Modern art at the Berlin Wall
Subtitle: demarcating culture in the Cold War Germanys
By: Claudia Mesch.
Series: International library of cultural studies -- 3; International library of cultural studies -- 3.
Publisher: Tauris Academic Studies
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 321
ISBN-13: 9781845118082
Subjects: Painting, Abstract -- Germany (West); Painting, German -- Germany (West) -- 20th century; Art, Modern -- 20th century; Modernism (Art) -- Germany; Modernism (Art) -- Germany (West); Cold War -- Influence; Germany -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
Description: At the height of the Cold War, art produced in divided Germany contested the cultural demarcation of East and West. Here Claudia Mesch shows how a wide group of artists, such as Joseph Beuys, Allan Kaprow, Gerhard Richter, Carolee Schneemann, Ed Kienholz, Yvonne Rainer, Jorg Immendorff and Nam June Paik, struggled to take visual art "beyond the crude separations of the 'Iron Curtain' ", and to transcend the first global cultural divide of the twentieth century. Artists in Berlin produced artworks - including painting, performance and film - that engaged critically with imposed nation.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-308) and index.