Publication

2019 - King Publishing, Laurence

Language

English

Word Count

72,000 words, Guess

Page Count

288 pages

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Classifications

  • LCCN72.P6
  • LCCN72.P6 C87 2018

Description

John J. Curley presents the first synthetic account of global art during the Cold War. Through a careful examination of artworks drawn from America, Europe, Russia and Asia, he demonstrates the inextricable nature of art and politics in this contentious period. He dismantles the usual narrative of American abstract painting versus figurative Soviet Socialist Realism to reveal a much more nuanced, contradictory and ambivalent picture of art making, in which the objects themselves, like spies, dissembled, housed and managed ideological differences.

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