Full Description
This volume, edited by Éva Forgács, with contributions from art historians from across Europe and the Americas, analyzes the artistic initiatives of the short time span between the end of World War II and the onset of the Cold War. In this moment, a new internationalism was anticipated by retrieving pre-war modernism, as well as creating the new era's new artistic lingua franca.
The chapters include in-depth case studies that analyze the complex, often interconnected, projects throughout the world—South America and Eastern and Western Europe—that were soon ended by the Cold War.
Contents
Acknowledgments
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
PART I: Local Developments
1 A New Beginning: the Dresden Artists' Group Der Ruf, 1945-1948
Isabel Wünsche
2 The Struggle for Dominating the Discourse: the Conflict between Traditionalists and Modernists in Hungary, 1945-1948
Edit Sasvári
3 Art in Poland Immediately after the War in Search of Social Context
Marcin Lachowski
4 In the Realm of Contradictions: Outlines of Czech Cultural Policy, 1945-1948
Tomas Glanc
PART II: Reaching Out
5 The Bucharest Surrealist Group and the Networks of Post-war Surrealism
Imre József Balázs
6 'Democratic Art par excellence'? The 1947 Polish-Czechoslovak Exchange of Modern Graphic Art Exhibitions
Petra Skarupsky
7 The European School in Budapest, 1945-1948
Éva Forgács
8 Cobra: Vital Manifestation
Sascha Bru and Éva Forgács
PART III: Wide Networks
9 New Realities in Paris: Abstract Art and Internationalism, 1946-1950
Natalie Adamson
10 Resilient Modernism: the 1946 Visit of Polish Architects to the United States
Anna Jozefacka
11 Materiality and Migration in Latin American Modernism: Caracas to Buenos Aires, 1944-1950
Pia Gottschaller
12 The Chicago Art That Wasn't, 1945-1948
Barbara Jaffee
13 Turnabout is Fair Play: Institution Building and the Idea of International Art in São Paulo after World War II
Adele Nelson
14 American Surrealism, Late Style: Horizontal Circulations in the 1940s
Tyrus Miller
Index
