Kunst und Kalter Krieg : Deutsche Positionen 1945-89

by Stephanie Barron, Sabine Eckmann (Editor)

Deutsch-deutsche Kunst bis zum Mauerfall - der erste Überblick zur Kunstproduktion während der deutschen Teilung aus internationaler Sicht mit Positionen deutscher Kunst zwischen 1945 und 1989. Der Einfluss der aktuellen politischen und kulturellen Diskurse in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland und der DDR wird ebenso aufgezeigt wie die komplexe Verarbeitung von Realismus und Abstraktion, die Entgrenzung konventioneller Kunst durch neue Medien und Kunstformen sowie die Rezeption zeitgenössischer Ausstellungen durch die Künstler. Der Band enthält rund 300 Werke von 120 Künstlern - Gemälde, Skulpturen, Grafiken, Fotografien und Installationskunst - aus der Nachkriegszeit bis zum Mauerfall 1989. Großzügig bebilderte Essays spannen den thematischen Bogen zwischen nationaler Identität und politischem Kontext, beginnend mit der Nachkriegszeit über die Ideologien des Kalten Krieges und den Terrorismus der 1970er Jahre bis hin zur Wiedervereinigung. Dieser neue Ansatz zur Geschichtsschreibung 15 demonstriert die internationale Rolle deutscher Nachkriegskunst innerhalb von Moderne und Postmoderne und wird hier erstmals in der Gesamtschau, kuratiert von Stephanie Barron und Eckhart Gillen, vorgelegt.

Genres: Art, Germany, History

458 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2009

About the author

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Stephanie Barron is chief curator of modern and contemporary art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. During her thirty-two years at LACMA, she has been responsible for several international loan exhibitions, including “The Avant-Garde in Russia: 1910-1930,” “German Expressionist Sculpture,” “David Hockney: A Retrospective,” “German Expressionism 1915-1925: The Second Generation,” “Exiles and Émigrés: The Flight of European Artists from Hitler,” and "Art of Two Germanys/Cold War Cultures". She co-organized LACMA’s millennium project, “Made in California: Art, Image, and Identity, 1900-2000.” Barron has received the Order of Merit First Class and the Commander’s Cross from the German government, the John J. McCloy Fellowship, and an NEA Fellowship for museum professionals. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Reviews

[Cameron · Rating 3 out of 5]

During my attendance at the LACMA exhibition of Two Germanys/Cold War Cultures I had the pleasure of engaging with fragments from this book. Paging through the museum's exhibit copy, the act of perusing photos of artistic works took on spectacularly new resonance when I could look up and view the piece being discussed. The art-science of writing blurbs to accompany exhibit pieces must be agonizing due to the need for brevity and clarity, and it was delightful to explore more fully the thoughts and opinions of art historians on pieces that confused and intrigued and astounded and disgusted me.

[Alex · Rating 4 out of 5]

A collection of essays written in tandem with the "Art of Two Germanys" exhibition at LACMA, this is an expansive and insightful catalog with a bevy of high-quality images. I read it as part of a class on postwar German art I'm taking, and while I'm sad I missed the exhibition I'm grateful for the push to read through the various texts here.