Postwar Revisited: A Global Art History (Paperback)

List of Illustrations? xi
Preface / Atreyee Gupta? xvii
Introduction / Atreyee Gupta? 1
Part I. Europe in Transition
1. Creaturely Cobra / Hal Foster? 19
1. Decolonizing Modernism/s: Transversal Histories and the Slade School of Fine Art / Ming Tiampo? 35
Part II. The Soviet Bloc and Communist China
3. Soviet Art before and after the Thaw / Boris Groys? 65
4. Rent Collection Courtyard, the “Atomic Bomb of the Art World” / Vivian Li? 79
Part III. Pacific Passages, Atlantic Oscillations
5. Godzilla’s Schizophrenia: Americanization and Amnesia in Postwar Japan / Alexandra Munroe? 99
6. The Work of Salvage: Jess, Allegory, and the Atomic Bomb / Tara McDowell? 119
7.?“The Eternal Modernity of the Church”: Art in the Sugar Mill and the University in the Philippines / Patrick Flores? 135
8. Antipodean Vision: Postwar Arts in Australia and the South Pacific / Terry Smith? 155
9. IntegraciÓn plÁstica: The Postwar Synthesis of the Arts as Seen from Mexico in 1952 / Jennifer Josten? 173
10. Ancient Modernisms: Illegibility, Women, and 1950s Weaving / Jenni Sorkin? 195
Part IV: Decolonizing Constellations
11. Postwar Abstraction: Similarities, Differences, and Other Ophthalmologic Conundrums / Atreyee Gupta? 215
12. Enemy of the People: Jewad Selim and the Baghdad Group for Modern Art / Nada Shabout? 237
13. Decolonization and Calligraphic Abstraction / Iftikhar Dadi? 253
14. Postwar Imaginings: NÉgritude Legacies and Thwarted Universalisms in Dakar and Paris / Elizabeth Harney? 277
Bibliography? 295
Contributors? 321
Index