Full Description
The artistic, cultural, and institutional exchanges between West and East Germany and the United States during the Cold War.
Throughout the Cold War era, a sustained and intense dialogue developed between both the West and East German and the North American art scenes on artistic, socio-cultural, institutional and economic levels. Entangled Art Histories offers new insights into the complex and intertwined transatlantic networks that gradually emerged in the wake of movements such as Pop Art, Minimalism and Conceptualism, involving artists, museums, galleries, curators, critics, and the art market.
The essays in this volume, written by internationally renowned scholars, address key issues ranging from travel and infrastructure to East-West cultural policy during the Cold War. By exploring the exhibition strategies, controversial receptions and geopolitical concerns of these entangled histories, this book contributes to a better understanding of the dynamic interplay between artists, galleries, and museums from a transnational perspective.
Contents
7 Preface
11 Introduction
Valérie Mavridorakis
23 Rauschenberg's Bed (1955) and II. Documenta (1959): Histoire Croisée of a Transatlantic Conundrum
Gregor Stemmrich
47 "If It Is Possible, It Is Best If You Bring Your Work Yourself": Infrastructure, Logistics, and Production at documenta
Felix Vogel
63 Artists, Critique, and the New York-Cologne Axis in the 1980s and 1990s
Alexander Alberro
79 Must Art Hang? Critical Ambivalence in Andrea Fraser's Exhibitions at Galerie Christian Nagel
Alexander Streitberger
103 Think-Crazy. Charles Simonds's Exhibition at Jürgen Schweinebraden's EP Galerie in East Berlin: Notes on a Cooperation Between a Private Art Institution in the GDR and the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program in West Berlin
Nóra Lukács
121 Belated Recognition: Critical Reception of East German Art in the United States Around 1990
Gregory H. Williams
133 Franz Erhard Walther in New York
Erik Verhagen
147 Schütte's Amerika (1975): A Nietzschean Critique of US Conceptualism in Düsseldorf
Stefaan Vervoort
165 Between Rhine-Ruhr and Rust Belt: Industrial Transnationalism in Reinhard Mucha's The Wirtschaftswunder, To the People of Pittsburgh
Althea Ruoppo
183 Charles W. White in East Berlin: Progressive Art History and the Limits of Socialist Solidarity in the German Democratic Republic, 1951-1978
Claudia Mesch
197 Network as an Expansion Strategy: Robert Barry and the Development of Artist Relations of Galerie Paul Maenz in Cologne
Stefano Agresti
213 Infrastructural Economies in Post-Conceptual Film Practices of the 1970s and 1980s: The Example of the Neo-Narrative Essay Film
Sabeth Buchmann
229 Post-Gulf War Specifications in the German-US Art Exchange from a Munich Perspective, 1996-2001
Dirk Snauwaert
241 Plates
257 About the Authors
