Modern Art at the Berlin Wall
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Modern Art at the Berlin Wall

Demarcating Culture in the Cold War Germanys

  1. 336 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Modern Art at the Berlin Wall

Demarcating Culture in the Cold War Germanys

About this book

At the height of the Cold War, art produced in divided Germany contested the cultural demarcation of East and West. Here Claudia Mesch shows how a wide group of artists struggled to take visual art beyond the crude separations of the 'Iron Curtain', and to transcend the first global cultural divide of the twentieth century. Artists in Berlin produced artworks-including painting, performance and film-that engaged critically with imposed national and global identities, and with issues of memory and trauma. 'Around the Berlin Wall' presents a new picture of the Cold War border between East and West as a dynamic and international cultural space, and is essential for all those interested in art history, modernism, the Cold War and the cultural history of the twentieth century.

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Information

Publisher
I.B. Tauris
Year
2009
Print ISBN
9781845118082
eBook ISBN
9780857714794
Edition
1
Topic
Art

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. List of Illustrations
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. INTRODUCTION: Modernity, Modern Art, and Fantasies of Postwar National Identity
  6. 1. RECUPERATING THE MODERN: The Cold War Battle for the 'Real'
  7. 2. MARKING THE POSTWAR CITY: Toward a Mnemonic Moder Art
  8. 3. BONJOUR MONSIEUR COURBET: Realist Painting and the Defector Dialectic
  9. 4. PERFORMANCE WEST AND EAST: The Freedom of Failure
  10. 5. ART ON TELEVISION: The Other Cold War Divide
  11. EPILOGUE
  12. Notes
  13. Index