Making Art History in Europe After 1945 (Studies in Art Historiography)

"This book analyses the intermeshing of state power and art history in Europe since 1945 and up to the present from a critical, de-centered perspective. Devoting special attention to European peripheries and to under-researched transnational cultural political initiatives related to the arts implemented after the end of the Second World War, the contributors explore the ways in which this relationship crystallised in specific moments, places, discourses and practices. They make the historic hegemonic centres of the discipline converse with Europe's Southern and Eastern peripheries, from Portugal to Estonia to Greece. By stressing the margins' point of view this volume rethinks the ideological grounds on which art history and the European Union have been constructed as well as the role played by art and culture in the very concept of 'Europe.'"-- Provided by publisher Cover Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Contents List of Figures List of Contributors Acknowledgements 1 The (Re)makings of Art History and Europe After 1945 SECTION 1 Europe After the Rain 2 The Allied Cultural Policies in Germany: Between ‘Re-Education’ and the Politicisation of the Arts (1945–1949) 3 UNESCO’s Colour Reproductions Project: Bringing (French) Art to the World 4 Curatorial Experiments at the National Gallery After the Second World War: Reframing History and the Pursuit of Aesthetic Experience 5 The Venice Biennale at its Turning Points: 1948 and the Aftermath of 1968 SECTION 2 Re-Reading Cold War Narratives 6 Artists in Service of the Masses: The Untold Story of the Yugoslav Socialist Realist Project 7 The Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade and Post-Revolutionary Desire: Producing the Art History Narrative of Yugoslav Modern Art 8 Simultaneous Equations: Early Cold War Cultural Politics and the History of Art in Greece 9 Cold War Art Historiography: Some Observations on an Interdisciplinary Approach Through the Social Sciences 10 Something Is Happening Here: Spaces and Figures of Change in Post­War Portugal SECTION 3 A New Europe? 11 Art Policies, Identity, and Ideology in Spain During the 1980s 12 Official Art Becoming Resistance: Adopting the Discourse of 'Dissent’ into Estonian Art History Writings 13 Gender and Art History in Poland: A Constant Story of Subversion 14 Narrating Dissident Art in Spain: The Case of Desacuerdos. Sobre Arte, Políticas y Esfera Pública (2003–2005) Index The aim of this series is to support and promote the study of the history and practice of art historical writing focusing on its institutional and conceptual foundations, from the past to the present day in all areas and all periods. Besides addressing the major innovators of the past it also encourages re-thinking ways in which the subject may be written in the future. It ignores the disciplinary boundaries imposed by the Anglophone expression 'art history' and allows and encourages the full range of enquiry that encompasses the visual arts in its broadest sense as well as topics falling within archaeology, anthropology, ethnography and other specialist disciplines and approaches. It welcomes contributions from young and established scholars and is aimed at building an expanded audience for what has hitherto been a much specialised topic of investigation. It complements the work of the 'Journal of Art Historiography' This book analyzes the relationship between art historical discourses, power, and the concept of Europe since 1945 from a critical, de-centered perspective.