Cold War Art Worlds: South Asian Art and Artists in Prague, 1947-1989 - Tapa blanda

Wille, Simone

 
9789462704701: Cold War Art Worlds: South Asian Art and Artists in Prague, 1947-1989
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ISBN 10: 9462704708 ISBN 13: 9789462704701
Editorial: Leuven University Press, 2025

Sinopsis

During the Cold War, the Central-European capital of Prague, alongside other locations in the polarized post-war world, emerged as a key site where an art world of particular importance for artists from South Asia developed. By emphasizing cultural mobility as a catalyst for exchange and network building, this book challenges and complicates assumptions about Cold War binaries of East and West and the polarization between so-called totalitarian regimes and free cultures. Positioning Prague as a nexus where South-Asian modernisms intersected with multiple peoples, histories, and ideologies in the post-World War II era, it offers a narrative of decolonization that rejected rigid systemic alignment in favor of participation across blocs by prioritizing migratory aesthetics over nationalist parochialism. Well-researched and rich in archival materials, this book proposes new ways of writing art histories and makes a significant contribution to both Cold War studies and critical global modernism studies.

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Acerca del autor

Simone Wille, Institute of Art History, University of Innsbruck.

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During the Cold War, the Central-European capital city Prague, along with other previously less noticed locations in the polarised post-war world, emerged as a key site where an art world of particular importance for artists from South Asia developed. By emphasising cultural mobility as a catalyst for exchange and network building, this book challenges and complicates assumptions about Cold War binaries of East and West and the polarisation between so-called totalitarian regimes and free cultures. Positioning Prague as a nexus where South-Asian modernisms intersected with multiple peoples, histories, and ideologies in the post-World War II era, it offers a narrative of decolonisation that rejected rigid systemic alignment in favour of participation across blocs by prioritising migratory aesthetics over nationalist parochialism. Well-researched and rich in archival materials, this book proposes new ways of writing art histories and makes a significant contribution to both Cold War studies and critical global modernism studies.

Simone Wille, Institute of Art History, University of Innsbruck.

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Editorial
Leuven University Press
Año de publicación
2025
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
9462704708
ISBN 13 
9789462704701
Encuadernación
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Número de edición
1
Número de páginas
320
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