Provoking new ways of thinking, engaging, and narrating art history, Postwar Revisited is essential reading for those interested in debates on global art history and global modernism, the intersections between art and decolonization, the cultural aspects of the Cold War and the Non-Aligned Movement, and modern and contemporary art more generally.
Provoking new ways of thinking, engaging, and narrating art history, Postwar Revisited is essential reading for those interested in debates on global art history and global modernism, the intersections between art and decolonization, the cultural aspects of the Cold War and the Non-Aligned Movement, and modern and contemporary art more generally.
Okwui Enwezor (1963–2019) was an internationally recognized and pathbreaking art curator, the former director of Haus der Kunst, founder of Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art, and the coauthor of numerous books and exhibition catalogs. Atreyee Gupta is Associate Professor of Global Modern Art and South and Southeast Asian Art at the University of California, Berkeley, and author of Non-Aligned: Art, Decolonization, and the Third World Project in India.
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List of Illustrations xi Preface / Atreyee Gupta xvii Introduction / Atreyee Gupta 1 Part I. Europe in Transition 1. Creaturely Cobra / Hal Foster 19 1. Decolonizing Modernism/s: Transversal Histories and the Slade School of Fine Art / Ming Tiampo 35 Part II. The Soviet Bloc and Communist China 3. Soviet Art before and after the Thaw / Boris Groys 65 4. Rent Collection Courtyard, the “Atomic Bomb of the Art World” / Vivian Li 79 Part III. Pacific Passages, Atlantic Oscillations 5. Godzilla’s Schizophrenia: Americanization and Amnesia in Postwar Japan / Alexandra Munroe 99 6. The Work of Salvage: Jess, Allegory, and the Atomic Bomb / Tara McDowell 119 7. “The Eternal Modernity of the Church”: Art in the Sugar Mill and the University in the Philippines / Patrick Flores 135 8. Antipodean Vision: Postwar Arts in Australia and the South Pacific / Terry Smith 155 9. IntegraciÓn plÁstica: The Postwar Synthesis of the Arts as Seen from Mexico in 1952 / Jennifer Josten 173 10. Ancient Modernisms: Illegibility, Women, and 1950s Weaving / Jenni Sorkin 195 Part IV: Decolonizing Constellations 11. Postwar Abstraction: Similarities, Differences, and Other Ophthalmologic Conundrums / Atreyee Gupta 215 12. Enemy of the People: Jewad Selim and the Baghdad Group for Modern Art / Nada Shabout 237 13. Decolonization and Calligraphic Abstraction / Iftikhar Dadi 253 14. Postwar Imaginings: NÉgritude Legacies and Thwarted Universalisms in Dakar and Paris / Elizabeth Harney 277 Bibliography 295 Contributors 321 Index
List of Illustrations xi Preface / Atreyee Gupta xvii Introduction / Atreyee Gupta 1 Part I. Europe in Transition 1. Creaturely Cobra / Hal Foster 19 1. Decolonizing Modernism/s: Transversal Histories and the Slade School of Fine Art / Ming Tiampo 35 Part II. The Soviet Bloc and Communist China 3. Soviet Art before and after the Thaw / Boris Groys 65 4. Rent Collection Courtyard, the “Atomic Bomb of the Art World” / Vivian Li 79 Part III. Pacific Passages, Atlantic Oscillations 5. Godzilla’s Schizophrenia: Americanization and Amnesia in Postwar Japan / Alexandra Munroe 99 6. The Work of Salvage: Jess, Allegory, and the Atomic Bomb / Tara McDowell 119 7. “The Eternal Modernity of the Church”: Art in the Sugar Mill and the University in the Philippines / Patrick Flores 135 8. Antipodean Vision: Postwar Arts in Australia and the South Pacific / Terry Smith 155 9. IntegraciÓn plÁstica: The Postwar Synthesis of the Arts as Seen from Mexico in 1952 / Jennifer Josten 173 10. Ancient Modernisms: Illegibility, Women, and 1950s Weaving / Jenni Sorkin 195 Part IV: Decolonizing Constellations 11. Postwar Abstraction: Similarities, Differences, and Other Ophthalmologic Conundrums / Atreyee Gupta 215 12. Enemy of the People: Jewad Selim and the Baghdad Group for Modern Art / Nada Shabout 237 13. Decolonization and Calligraphic Abstraction / Iftikhar Dadi 253 14. Postwar Imaginings: NÉgritude Legacies and Thwarted Universalisms in Dakar and Paris / Elizabeth Harney 277 Bibliography 295 Contributors 321 Index
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