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Politics and Painting at the Venice Biennale, 1948-64 - Italy and the Idea of Europe (Hardcover)
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Politics and Painting at the Venice Biennale, 1948-64 - Italy and the Idea of Europe (Hardcover)
Series: Critical Perspectives in Art History
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Although cultural exchanges were named within the Council of Europe
in the mid- 1950s as being second only in importance to the
military as a tool for ensuring a stable and integrated Western
Europe in the aftermath of the Second World War, European-led
initiatives have generally been overlooked in the historiography of
art of the immediate post-war period. Popularly remembered as the
era of the United States' cultural 'triumph', American Abstract
Expressionism in particular is commonly identified as the cultural
'weapon' by which that nation conquered Western European culture.
Using the Venice Biennale as a case study, this book challenges the
idea that there was an American cultural conquest in the 1950s
through the fine arts, arguing instead that Western Europe retained
a strong sense of world cultural leadership in the immediate
post-war years. An institutional history that combines political
and diplomatic with art history, and is informed by extensive
archival research, it argues that Italian political and cultural
figures actively promoted the 'Idea of Europe' - the Council of
Europe's cultural initiative of 1955 designed to promote the idea
of a homogeneous post-war European culture - at the Biennale in the
form of gesture painting as an international style, as the emblem
of a culturally united Western Europe, and as the repository of
universal humanist values for the international community.
Scholarly but accessible, this book will be of interest not only to
researchers and to students of international cultural relations
during the Cold War, but to general, interested readers, too. -- .
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