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A Conspiracy of Images - Andy Warhol, Gerhard Richter, and the Art of the Cold War (Hardcover)
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A Conspiracy of Images - Andy Warhol, Gerhard Richter, and the Art of the Cold War (Hardcover)
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An important new look at Cold War art on both sides of the Atlantic
In October 1962, a set of blurred surveillance photographs brought
the world to the brink of nuclear apocalypse during the Cuban
missile crisis. The pictures themselves demonstrated little, and
explanatory captions were necessary to identify the danger for the
public. In the following months, two artists with antithetical
backgrounds arrived at a similar aesthetic: Andy Warhol, who began
his career as a commercial artist in New York City, turned to the
silkscreened replication of violent photographs. Gerhard Richter,
who began as a mural painter in socialist Dresden, East Germany,
painted blurred versions of personal and media photographs. In A
Conspiracy of Images, author John J. Curley explores how the
artists' developing aesthetic approaches were informed by the
political agency and ambiguity of images produced during the Cold
War, particularly those disseminated by the mass media on both
sides. As the first scholarly consideration of the visual
conditions of the Cold War, A Conspiracy of Images provides a new
and compelling transatlantic model for Cold War art history.
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