Claudia Mesch

Modern Art at the Berlin Wall

Demarcating Culture in the Cold War Germanys

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Produktbeschreibung

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 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 national and global identities, and with issues of memory and trauma. 'Around the Berlin Wall' presents a new picture of the Cold War border between East and West as a dynamic and international cultural space, and is essential for all those interested in art history, modernism, the Cold War and the cultural history of the twentieth century.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 136mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 471g
• ISBN-13: 9781784539771
• ISBN-10: 1784539775
• Artikelnr.: 48167057

Autorenporträt

Claudia Mesch is Associate Professor of Art History at the School of Art at Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, in the USA.

Inhaltsangabe

TABLE OF CONTENTS List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction I.
Recuperating the Modern II. Marking the Postwar City III. Bonjour Monsieur
Courbet: Realist painting and the defector dialectic IV. Performance West
and East: the freedom of failure V. Art on TV: the other Cold War divide
Epilogue Index