Exhibition Of Paintings 1949 1964

Author : Assoc Prof Catherine Dossin
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1472471326
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (724 download)

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Download or read book The Rise and Fall of American Art, 1940s–1980s written by Assoc Prof Catherine Dossin and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2015-06-28 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Rise and Fall of American Art, 1940s-1980s, Catherine Dossin challenges the now-mythic perception of New York as the undisputed center of the art world between the end of World War II and the fall of the Berlin Wall, a position of power that brought the city prestige, money, and historical recognition. Dossin reconstructs the concrete factors that led to the shift of international attention from Paris to New York in the 1950s, and documents how ‘peripheries’ such as Italy, Belgium, and West Germany exerted a decisive influence on this displacement of power. As the US economy sank into recession in the 1970s, however, American artists and dealers became increasingly dependent on the support of Western Europeans, and cities like Cologne and Turin emerged as major commercial and artistic hubs - a development that enabled European artists to return to the forefront of the international art scene in the 1980s. Dossin analyses in detail these changing distributions of geopolitical and symbolic power in the Western art worlds - a story that spans two continents, forty years, and hundreds of actors. Her transnational and interdisciplinary study provides an original and welcome supplement to more traditional formal and national readings of the period.