Global Art and the Cold War
Publisher: King Publishing, Laurence; Laurence King Publishing
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781786272294
Subjects: Art, political aspects; Art and society; Cold war; War in art
Description: John J. Curley presents the first synthetic account of global art during the Cold War. Through a careful examination of artworks drawn from America, Europe, Russia and Asia, he demonstrates the inextricable nature of art and politics in this contentious period. He dismantles the usual narrative of American abstract painting versus figurative Soviet Socialist Realism to reveal a much more nuanced, contradictory and ambivalent picture of art making, in which the objects themselves, like spies, dissembled, housed and managed ideological differences.