The Rise and Fall of American Art, 1940s-1980s: A Geopolitics of Western Art Worlds

ISBN-13: 9781138295575 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 324 str.

Catherine Dossin

Opis

This book challenges the perception of New York as the undisputed center of the art world between the end of World War II and the fall of the Berlin Wall, a position of power that brought the city prestige, money, and historical recognition. In her transnational and interdisciplinary study, Dossin analyses changing distributions of geopolitical and symbolic power in the Western art worlds - a story that spans two continents, forty years, and hundreds of actors.

Recenzje

"Dossin has provided a useful paradigm through which to view the recent history of Western art and art markets, one that challenges the conventional and limited narrative found in most art history textbooks.... Dossin has provided a compelling framework to help us track the geopolitics of the contemporary art world." - American Historical Review

Spis treści

Introduction: from the 'Fall of Paris' to the 'Invasion of New York'; 'Art ... a language that should unite': the diversity of the postwar art worlds; Vehemences Confrontees: the limits of postwar artistic exchanges; 'We will always have Paris': the domination of Paris in the 1950s; 'The future is in New York': the strength of the US art worlds in the late 1950s; This Is Tomorrow: the triumph of the American way in the 1960s; I like America and America likes me: the European domination of American art in the 1970s; A New Spirit in Painting: the European comeback of the 1980s; Epilogue: consequences of the European comeback; Index.

O autorze

Catherine Dossin is Associate Professor of Art History at Purdue University, USA.