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Facing the future : art in Europe 1945-1968

Title
Facing the future : art in Europe 1945-1968 / [copy editing Mari Shields ; introduction, Eckhart Gillen, Peter Weibel.]
Publication
  • Tielt : Lannoo Publishers ; Karlsruhe : BOZAR Books, [2016]
  • ©2016

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Additional Authors
  • Shields, Mari
  • Gillen, Eckhart, 1947-
  • Weibel, Peter
  • Palais des beaux-arts (Brussels, Belgium), host institution.
  • Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, host institution.
  • Gosudarstvennyĭ muzeĭ izobrazitelʹnykh iskusstv imeni A.S. Pushkina, host institution.
Description
493 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 29 cm
Summary
The Second World War also shattered the art world. 'Facing the Future: Art in Europe 1945-1968' shows how such artists as Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Ossip Zadkine, Henry Moore, Renato Guttuso, Fernand Léger, Yves Klein, Gerhard Richter and Lucian Freud worked through the trauma of 1940-1945 and the Cold War and started to explore new directions in art. This reference work includes some 400 works by 150 artists and for the first time brings together post-war art from both Western and Eastern Europe. In enlightening texts, experts reveal the various evolutions and movements, from the mourning of the first postwar years to British Pop Art and political art leading up to the revolutions of the late 1960s. Exhibition: BOZAR Centre for Fine Arts, Brussel, Belgium (24.06.-25.09.2016) / ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany (21.10.2016-29.01.2017) / The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, Russia (06.03.-28.05.2017).
Alternative Title
Art in Europe 1945-1968
Subject
  • 1900-1999
  • Art, European > 20th century > Exhibitions
  • Art, Modern > 20th century > Exhibitions
  • Art, European
  • Art, Modern
Genre/Form
Exhibition catalogs.
Note
  • Catalog of an exhibition held at BOZAR, Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels, 24 June-25 September 2016, ZKM, Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, 21 October 2016-29 January 2017, Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, 6 March-28 May 2017.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Introduction. Europe after the rain: the dialectic of trauma and revival in European art from 1945-1968 / Eckhart Gillen, Peter Weibel -- Essays. Art in Europe after 1956 / Peter Weibel ; Trauma & Träume / Eduardo Subirats ; The assault on the art institute: from occupation to occupation at the Centre for Fine Arts / Kurt de Boodt, Paul Dujardin -- Timeline I, 1945-1950 -- Prologue: the end of war. We were never more free: testimonies to the war in the art of the 1940s / Eckhart Gillen ; Writing the disaster: trauma and reconstruction in post-war France / Sarah Wilson -- Mourning and memory. Pictures of pain / Eckhart Gillen ; Vadim Sidur / Karl Eimermacher ; Ecce homo: reflecting the experience of war through Christian iconography in European art of the 1940s and 1950s / Daniel Bulatov ; Negotiating freedom: Polish art 1944-1970 / Anda Rottenberg -- Timeline II, 1951-1960 -- Cold War. Picasso: hard to be a god / Sergey Fofanov ; The war, the Cold War, Soviet ideology and nonconformism / Ekaterina Yurevna Andreeva ; The Cold War of the arts I: Monument to the Unknown Political Prisoner and Memorial to the Buchenwald Concentration Camp / Eckhart Gillen ; The Cold War of the arts II: realismo versus socialist realism / Eckhart Gillen ; 1958: the fight against nuclear death in the visual arts in East and West Germany / Sven Beckstette ; Palomares: by Jorge Castillo / Eduardo Subirats -- New realisms. In the gap between art and life: pop sensibility in European art 1950s-1960s / Alexandra Danilova -- New idealisms. Zone ZERO: a European network of friends / Daria Mille -- New tendencies / Margit Rosen ; The art of exact ideas: impulses from science in unofficial Russian art / Daria Mille ; The secret revolution: cybernetics and the visual arts / Margit Rosen -- Timeline III, 1961-1968 -- 1986: the end of utopia? Architectural utopias 1950-1968: the destruction of the object / Marie-Ange Brayer ; An end to reality: situations and interventions beyond art / Eckhart Gillen ; Playing with fire: performative practices in East European art in the 1960s / Maja Fowkes ; Marcel Broodthaers and Harald Metzkes: on the futility of the aesthetic improvement of the world / Eckhart Gillen -- Epilogue. What does Europe want? / Slavoj Žižek.
Call Number
JQF 17-2546
ISBN
  • 9789401437080
  • 9401437084
OCLC
955313116
Title
Facing the future : art in Europe 1945-1968 / [copy editing Mari Shields ; introduction, Eckhart Gillen, Peter Weibel.]
Publisher
Tielt : Lannoo Publishers ; Karlsruhe : BOZAR Books, [2016]
Copyright Date
©2016
Type of Content
text
still image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Chronological Term
1900-1999
Added Author
Shields, Mari, editor.
Gillen, Eckhart, 1947- writer of introduction.
Weibel, Peter, writer of introduction.
Palais des beaux-arts (Brussels, Belgium), host institution.
Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, host institution.
Gosudarstvennyĭ muzeĭ izobrazitelʹnykh iskusstv imeni A.S. Pushkina, host institution.
Research Call Number
JQF 17-2546
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