Natalie Adamson

Painting, Politics and the Struggle for the École de Paris, 1944-1964

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Challenges the customary relegation of Ecole de Paris to the footnotes, not by arguing for some hitherto 'hidden' merit for the art and ideas associated with this school, but by establishing how and why the Ecole de Paris was a highly significant vehicle for artistic and political debate.

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By thoroughly mining the extensive resources of the newspaper and art journal press, gallery and government archives, artists' writings and interviews with surviving artists and art critics, Natalie Adamson traces the artists, exhibitions, and art critical debates that made the École de Paris a zone of aesthetic and political conflict. This study presents a wholly new perspective on the vexed relationships between painting, politics, and national identity in postwar France.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 330
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. August 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 640g
• ISBN-13: 9780754659280
• ISBN-10: 0754659283
• Artikelnr.: 35731001

Autorenporträt

Natalie Adamson is Lecturer in the School of Art History at the University of St Andrews, Scotland.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction: École de Paris: meaning to be determined
A complete change of décor: the Nouvelle École de Paris
An 'individualist internationale': foreign artists and abstract painting
The crisis of realism and reality
The critics of the École de Paris
Is the École de Paris condemned to death?
Conclusion: the mourning of the object
Selected bibliography
Index.