Reconstructing modernism : art in New York, Paris, and Montreal, 1945-1964
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Reconstructing modernism : art in New York, Paris, and Montreal, 1945-1964
MIT Press, 1992
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"First MIT Press paperback edition, 1992."--Colophon, p. [419]
Papers from the Hot Paint for Cold War symposium, held at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, Sept. 1986
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Description
These essays reopen the case of postwar abstraction. They constitute a dialogue among historians, critics, painters, and art historians that allows not only new readings of specific art works but also a new understanding of the reception of art in the postwar Western world. Timothy J. Clark, Thierry de Duve, Constance Naubert-Riser, and Thomas Crow focus on specific works of major artists of the period. Laurie J. Monahan, Serge Guilbaut, and Benjamin H.D. Buchloh look at art production in relation to particular aspects of the Cold War. Jean Baudrillard and Francois-Marc Gagnon discuss the effects of the international situation on the arts in general. John Franklin Koenig describes the experience of an American artist working in Paris after the war. John O'Brian relates the impact and the reception of Matisse's work in New York, and Lary May discusses the transformation of Hollywood during the McCarthy era.
Table of Contents
- Abstraction chaude in Paris in the 1950s, John-Franklin Koenig
- hot painting - the inevitable fate of the image, Jean Baudrillard
- postwar painting games - the rough and the slick, Serge Guilbaut
- Cold War constructivism, Benjamin H.D. Buchloh
- marginality as a political stance - the Canadian painter Jean McEwen, Constance Naubert-Riser
- New York as seen from Montreal by Paul-Emile Borduas and the automatists, 1943-1953, Francois-Marc Gagnon
- Greenberg's Matisse and the problem of avant-garde hedonism, John O'Brian
- Jackson Pollock's abstraction, Timothy J. Clark
- the monochrome and the blank canvas, Thierry de Duve
- Saturday disasters - trace and reference in early Warhol, Thomas Crow
- the politics of consumption - the screen actor's guild, Ronald Reagan, and the Hollywood red scare, Larry May
- cultural cartography - American designs at the 1964 Venice Biennale, Laurie J. Monahan.
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