New Histories of Art in the Global Postwar Era : Multiple Modernisms.

E-Book-ProQuest / Fernzugriff nach Registrierung möglich

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of contents -- Figures -- Contributors -- Introduction: Toward a New Understanding of Globalism in Postwar Art -- The Postwar: A Short History -- Notes on Multiple Modernisms -- On the Structure of This Book and Its Contribution -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 1 Prologue: Art History's Work-in Pro(re)gress - Reflections on the Multiple Modernities Project -- Mainstream Modernism -- Radical Revisionism -- Modern, Modernism, Modernist -- Minor, Global, Planetary, Situated -- Contemporary Art and Contemporaneity -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Part 1 Crossings and Encounters: Retracing Artists' Itineraries -- 2 Expression for All: Ferlov, Mancoba, Tajiri and the Art of Cobra -- Primitivism -- Minoritarian Cosmopolitanism -- Feminist Humanism -- Resistance to Violence -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 3 Origins and Brinks: Multiple Modernisms in Postwar London -- Decentralization: Elective Affinities and Missed Encounters -- Discrepant Bones: A Case Study -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 4 Multiple Resistances to the Concept of Modernism: The Emergence of Artistic-Poetic Networks between Eastern Europe and Latin -- Multiplying the Modernist Project -- Anti-Aesthetics: Toward the Criticism of Western Modernism -- Self-definition as Arrière-garde Artists -- Multiple Resistances to the Concept of Western Modernism -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 5 Urban Folklore: Marta Minujín's Postwar Assemblage and the Modern City -- Urbanscapes -- Environmental Assemblages -- La Menesunda and the City -- Urban Folklore -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 6 Yayoi Kusama as a Migrant Artist: An Artistic Trajectory as a Model for Understanding Postwar Art -- Boat Trip -- Kusama in Europe -- Polka Dot Love Room -- Migration Aesthetics -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 7 The Overworked Ground: Franz Erhard Walther in New York.

Notes -- Bibliography -- Part 2 Against the Norm: Decentering and Resisting the Canon -- 8 Blinded by Mao: The Challenge of Seeing Modernism in Art of the People's Republic -- Can We Use the M Word? -- The Yan'an Talks -- Pan Tianshou/Fu Baoshi -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 9 "Iranian Modernism" and the Idea of Indigenous Art: Translations, Adoptions and (mis)interpretations -- Persian Art History and the Reconstruction of National Identity -- Avant-Gardism and/or the Indigenous Figuration -- The Local-Global Binarism and the Saqqa-khaneh Movement -- What Was Modernism in Iran? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 10 Camouflaged Dissent - A Plastic Umbrella and Transparent Balloons: "Happenings" in South Korea, 1967-1968 -- The First "South Korean Happening": A Plastic Umbrella -- Happenings at the Music Café, C'est Si Bon in May 1968: Art or Scandal? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 11 A Postcard from Addis: Ethiopian Modernism(s) in the World -- Ethiopia in the World -- Afewerk Tekle as Patriot and Diplomat -- The Interstitial Works of Skunder Boghossian -- 1967: High Points and New Complexities -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 12 The Cultural Politics of Négritude and the Debates around the Brazilian Participation in the First World Festival of Negro A -- Arts Nègres, Black Arts -- Continuities and Ruptures of Négritude in Black Brazilian Art -- Unofficial Mobilities and Black Solidarity -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 13 An Index of Modernity: Feminist Furniture by Teresa Burga and Beatriz González -- Feminism in Latin America: An Overview -- From Modernity to Modernism: Burga and González's Semiotics of the Living Room -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Part 3 Collecting Modernisms - Exhibiting Modernisms -- 14 Traveler's Tales: Alfred Barr, the Soviet Union and International Modernism in the Postwar Period -- Notes -- Bibliography.

15 Displaying Whose Modernity?: The Bardis and the Museum of Art of São Paulo -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 16 Cosmonaut Paintings as Contemporary Art: The Soviet Union at the Venice Biennale, 1956-1968 -- "Insalata Russa": Soviets in Venice -- On a Mission to Venice: The 1968 Exhibition -- A Cold Reception at a Heated Biennale -- Into Oblivion - Space Debris in Venice -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 17 All That Jazz: Rome's Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna and the Rise of Abstraction in Postwar Italy -- Palma Bucarelli: The Joan d'Arc of Parisian Modernisms -- Arte astratta e concreta in Italia -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.