
- 336 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
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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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- INTRODUCTION: Modernity, Modern Art, and Fantasies of Postwar National Identity
- 1. RECUPERATING THE MODERN: The Cold War Battle for the 'Real'
- 2. MARKING THE POSTWAR CITY: Toward a Mnemonic Moder Art
- 3. BONJOUR MONSIEUR COURBET: Realist Painting and the Defector Dialectic
- 4. PERFORMANCE WEST AND EAST: The Freedom of Failure
- 5. ART ON TELEVISION: The Other Cold War Divide
- EPILOGUE
- Notes
- Index