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Book Review
Networking the Bloc: Experimental Art in Eastern Europe 1965–1981. By Klara Kemp-Welch
02/2020 | 1403 | 162
Pages: 175-176
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Reviewer:
Bryzgel, Amy (Bryzgel, Amy)
Subjects
dates:
1960-1979 / 1980-1989
places:
Central Europe / Eastern Europe / Germany / Hungary / Yugoslavia (former republic) / Soviet Union
subjects:
Cold War / Avant-garde
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Networking the Bloc: Experimental Art in Eastern Europe 1965–1981 By Klara Kemp-Welch. 480 pp. incl. 36 col. + 198 b. & w. ills. (MIT Press, Cambridge MA, 2019), £40. ISBN 978–0–262–03830–0. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
8. Identification program (1 of 5), by Géza Perneczky. 1971. Gelatin silver print, 29.7 by 21 cm. (Courtesy the artist and Chimera- Project Gallery, Budapest).
Book Review
Avant-garde Art and Criticism in Francoist Spain. By Paula Barreiro López
12/2018 | 1389 | 160
Pages: 1076
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Reviewer:
Tusell García, Genoveva (Tusell García, Genoveva)
Subjects
art literature:
Restany, Pierre / Argan, Giulio Carlo
dates:
1900-1949 / 1930-1939 / 1940-1949 / 1950-1999 / 1950-1959 / 1960-1969 / 1970-1979
media:
Paintings / Books
places:
Spain
subjects:
Spanish painting / Art criticism / Criticism / Cultural history / Writings / Exhibitions / Biennials / Competitions / Aesthetics / Abstract art / Civil War (Spain:1936-1939) / Cold War / Politics / Fascism / Marxism / Avant-garde
Book Review
Delirious: Art at the Limits of Reason 1950–1980. By Kelly Baum with Lucy Bradnock and Tina Rivers Ryan
09/2018 | 1386 | 160
Pages: 806
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Reviewer:
Choi, Yoojin (Choi, Yoojin)
Subjects
art literature:
Krauss, Rosalind E.
artists:
Beckett, Samuel / Artaud, Antonin / Spero, Nancy / Paik, Nam June / Bogat, Regina / Gego / Fahlström, Öyvind
dates:
1950-1999 / 1950-1959 / 1960-1969 / 1970-1979
media:
Paintings / Sculpture / Installations (visual works) / Performance art
museums and institutions:
Met Breuer, New York, United States
places:
United States / New York / North America / Europe
subjects:
Psychoanalysis / World War (1939-1945) / Capitalism / Cold War / Culture / Art theory
Book Review
Explodity: Sound, Image, and Word in Russian Futurist Book Art. By Nancy Perloff & Aleksandr Zhitomirsky: Photomontage as a Weapon of World War II and the Cold War. By Erika Wolf & Communist Posters. Edited by Mary Ginsberg
03/2018 | 1380 | 160
Pages: 260-261
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Reviewer:
Collier, Marie (Collier, Marie)
Subjects
artists:
Malevich, Kazimir / Larionov, Mikhail / Goncharova, Natalia
dates:
1900-1999
media:
Books / Illustrations / Posters / Photomontages
places:
Russia / China / Korea / Vietnam / Cuba / Mongolia
subjects:
Futurism / Communism / Capitalism / Cold War / World War (1939-1945)
Publication Received
Politically Unbecoming: Postsocialist Art against Democracy. By Anthony Gardner.
02/2017 | 1367 | 159
Pages: 146
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Reviewer:
Hock, Beata (Hock, Beata)
Subjects
dates:
1990-1999 / 2000-2009
museums and institutions:
Manifesta
subjects:
Art history / Politics / Aesthetics / Visual culture / Art theory / Cold War
subjects:
Eastern European
Book Review
Painting, Politics, and the New Front of Cold War Italy, by Adrian R. Duran
11/2016 | 1364 | 158
Pages: 911
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Reviewer:
Versari, Maria Elena (Versari, Maria Elena)
Subjects
artists:
Fronte Nuovo delle Arti
dates:
1940-1949
subjects:
Artists / Artists' groups and associations / Italian / Politics
subjects:
Cold War
Book Review
British Art in the Nuclear Age, C. Jolivette, ed.
05/2015 | 1346 | 157
Pages: 355
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Reviewer:
Hallman, Lee (Hallman, Lee)
Subjects
dates:
1940-1959 / 1960-1979
subjects:
British painting / British sculpture / Cold War / Essays / Cultural history
Illustrations
Attributed works:
61. Waiting woman with nuclear bomber, by Colin Self (Richard Saltoun Gallery, London)
Letter
Picasso's politics
02/2011 | 1295 | 153
Pages: 103
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Author:
Grunenberg, Christoph (Grunenberg, Christoph)
Author:
Morris, Lynda (Morris, Lynda)
Subjects
artists:
Picasso, Pablo
dates:
2000-2009 / 2010-2019
museums and institutions:
Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, Great Britain / Albertina, Vienna, Austria / Louisiana Museum for Moderne Kunst, Humlebaek, Denmark
places:
Humlebaek / Liverpool / Vienna
print:
Picasso, Pablo
subjects:
Correspondence / Exhibitions / Cold War / Politics / Civil War (Spain:1936-1939)
Exhibition Review
Star City. Nottingham
04/2010 | 1285 | 152
Pages: 265-267
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Reviewer:
Blood, Anne (Blood, Anne)
Subjects
dates:
2010-2019
museums and institutions:
Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, Great Britain
places:
Nottingham / England
print:
Soviet art
subjects:
Reviews / Exhibitions / Cold War / Communism / Russian / Art / Soviet / Eastern European
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Star City. The Future under Communism | institution: Nottingham Contemporary
Illustrations
Attributed works:
67. Creative forces of Socialism are endless!, by Valentina Petrovich Viktorov. 1959. Poster. (Courtesy of ‘Ne Boltai’ Collection; exh. Nottingham Contemporary).
Attributed works:
68. Elsewhere, by Micol Assaël. 2008. PVC, copper, water, ice, sparks and an audio system, 447 by 480 by 280 cm. (Foksal Gallery Foundation; exh. Nottingham Contemporary).
Attributed works:
69. Detail of Associations, k, by Stano Filko. 1968–69. Thirty-one offset prints on paper, dimensions variable. (Courtesy of the artist; exh. Nottingham Contemporary).
Exhibition Review
Cold War Modern. London
02/2009 | 1271 | 151
Pages: 113-114
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Reviewer:
Hughes, Henry Meyric (Hughes, Henry Meyric)
Subjects
dates:
2000-2009 / 1950-1959 / 1960-1969
museums and institutions:
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Great Britain
places:
London / England / Soviet Union / United States
print:
Design
print:
Cold War
subjects:
Reviews / Exhibitions / Cold War / Architecture / Models (representations) / Design / Modernism
subjects:
Communism
subjects:
Capitalism
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Cold War Modern. Design 1945-1970 | institution: Victoria and Albert Museum
Illustrations
Attributed works:
37. Jested telecommunications tower and hotel, Liberec, by Karel Hubácek. 1968–73. Photograph. (Jiri Jiroutec, exh. Victoria and Albert Museum, London)
Attributed works:
38. Chair, by Ray and Charles Eames. c.1950. Grey moulded shell with rope-edges, swivel mechanism and dowel legs. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London)
Western art unattributed:
36. Vice-President Richard Nixon with USSR First Secretary Nikita Khruschev during the 'kitchen debate' at the American National Exhibition, Moscow. 1959. Photograph. (Exh. Victoria and Albert Museum).
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