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Modern Art at the Berlin Wall: Demarcating Culture in the Cold War Germanys
Claudia Mesch
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Description for Modern Art at the Berlin Wall: Demarcating Culture in the Cold War Germanys
Paperback. At the height of the Cold War, art produced in divided Germany contested the cultural demarcation of East and West. Num Pages: 336 pages, 31 black and white integrated illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; ACX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 138. .
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2018
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784539771
SKU
V9781784539771
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99-10
About Claudia Mesch
Claudia Mesch is Associate Professor of Art History at the School of Art at Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona. She is the editor, with Viola Michely, of 'Joseph Beuys: The Reader' (I.B. Tauris, 2007) and is founding editor of the e-journal 'Surrealism and the Americas'. She writes on diverse topics in twentieth-century and contemporary art, especially postwar modernism, its ties ... Read more
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