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How should we understand post-war art? How were issues
of cultural transfer and curatorial strategies dealt with in the
extended 1960s - the era of pop?

Art in Transfer in the Era of Pop juxtaposes issues and contexts
approaching the concept and reception of Pop Art.
Contributors from Europe and beyond weave a web that
resists the notion of universialism, adding to art historian
Piotr Piotrowski's "horizontal" art history. This volume avoids
the historiographic stance where the US--Europe relationship
appears to be a one-way...

Since the late nineteenth century, museums have been cited as tools of imperialism and colonialism, as strongholds of patriarchalism, masculinism, homophobia and xenophobia, and accused both of elitism and commercialism. But, could the museum absorb and benefit from its critique, turning into a critical museum, into the site of resistance rather than ritual? This book looks at the ways in which the museum could use its collections, its cultural authority, its auratic space and resources to give voice to the underprivileged, and to take an active part in contemporary and at times controversial...

This book presents and analyzes artistic interactions both within the Soviet bloc and with the West between 1945 and 1989. During the Cold War the exchange of artistic ideas and products united Europe's avant-garde in a most remarkable way. Despite the Iron Curtain and national and political borders there existed a constant flow of artists, artworks, artistic ideas and practices. The geographic borders of these exchanges have yet to be clearly defined. How were networks, centers, peripheries (local, national and international), scales, and distances constructed? How did (neo)avant-garde...