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• Title:Global art and the Cold War / John J. Curley.
  
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• Author/Creator:Curley, John J., author.
  
• Published/Created:London : Laurence King Publishing, 2018.
  ©2018
  

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  • Location:MAA LIBRARY (IKB) stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: N72.P6 C87 2018
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Art--Political aspects--History--20th century.
  Art and society--History--20th century.
  Cold War--Influence.
  Cold War in art.
  
• Description:288 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
  
• Series:Global perspectives series.
  
• Summary: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.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 274-280) and index.
  
• ISBN:1786272296 (hardback)
  9781786272294 (hardback)
  
• Contents:Introduction : The Car War as a way of seeing
  Marking territory : American abstraction, Soviet figuration, and the early Cold War
  Art, technology, and the Cold War
  The Cold War and global pop art
  1968-Art and politics on the barricades
  Art and détente
  A return and then the end
  Art and the legacy of the Cold War.