Art of two Germanys--Cold War cultures
By: Stephanie Barron and Sabine Eckmann, catalogue editors ; Stephanie Barron and Eckhart Gillen, exhibition curators ; essays by Stephanie Barron ... [et al.].
Contributors: Barron, Stephanie, 1950-; Eckmann, Sabine.; Gillen, Eckhart, 1947-; Los Angeles County Museum of Art.; Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nürnberg.; Deutsches Historisches Museum.
Publisher: Abrams; In associaton with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York; [Los Angeles]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 458
ISBN-13: 9780810984042; 9780810977938; 9780810976474
Subjects: Art, German -- Germany (West) -- 20th century -- Exhibitions; Art, German -- Germany (East) -- 20th century -- Exhibitions; Art -- Political aspects -- Germany (West) -- Exhibitions; Art -- Political aspects -- Germany (East) -- Exhibitions
Genres: Exhibitions
Description: "Throughout the Cold War, the creation and reception of art in East and West Germany was inseparably linked to divided political realities. Artists in the two Germanys redeployed the traditions of abstraction and realism in new national and international contexts, creating a wide range of powerful artworks that often responded to political events, popular culture, and changes in technology and reproduction." "Art of Two Germanys/Cold War Cultures is the catalogue for a groundbreaking international exhibition that reveals for the first time the contribution of both Germanys to the development of modern and contemporary art. This substantial and profusely illustrated book, with seventeen important essays by major art historians and cultural critics as well as a chronological overview of the history Of East and West Germany, is the first comprehensive look at the scope of postwar German painting, photography, sculpture, video, and performance art. It includes work by more than 120 artists."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Catalog of an exhibition held at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Jan. 25-Apr. 19, 2009, at the Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg, May 23-Sept. 6, 2009 and the Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin, Oct. 3-Jan. 10, 2010.

Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / Michael Govan; title: Blurred boundaries: the art of two Germanys between myth and history / Stephanie Barron; title: Historicizing postwar German art / Sabine Eckmann; title: Nationalizing aesthetics: revivals and rebuttals. Ruptures and continuities: modern German art in between the Third Reich and the Cold War / Sabine Eckmann ; The legacy of critical realism in East and West / Ursula Peters and Roland Prügel ; Expressionism and the two Germanys / Karen Lang; title: The internationalization of German art. Dialectic at a standstill : East German socialist realism in the Stalin era / Barbara McCloskey ; Abstraction as international language / Susanne Leeb ;The leftist artist: visual art and its politics in postwar Germany / Diedrich Diederichsen; title: Art, technologies, and the avant-garde. The art of a miracle : toward a history of German Pop, 1955-72 / Christine Mehring ; Symbolic revolts in the "workers' and peasants' state" : countercultural art programs in the GDR and the return of modern art / Paul Kaiser ; Photography as contemporary document : comments on the conceptions of the documentary in Germany after 1945 / Astrid Ihle ; Pause>rewind>play : video art in Cold War Germany / Lutz Koepnick; title: Trauma, violence, and memory. Figures of memory in the course of time / Andreas Huyssen ; The art of barbarism and suffering / Richard Langston ; Repression and representation : the RAF in German postwar art / Peter Weibel ; The RAF and the phantom of terrorism in West Germany / Svea Bräunert; title: Scenes from the theater of the Cold War of the arts / Eckhart Gillen; title: Artists and artworks in the exhibition. Checklist of the exhibition; title: Chronology : two Germanys, 1945-90.