Metrics of Modernity - Art and Development in Postwar Turkey (Hardcover)

In this vivid portrait of the art world of 1950s Turkey, Sarah-Neel Smith offers a new framework for analyzing global modernisms of the twentieth century: economic development. After World War II, a cohort of influential Turkish modernists built a new art scene in Istanbul and Ankara. The entrepreneurial female gallerist Adalet Cimcoz, the art critic (and future prime minister) Bulent Ecevit, and artists like Aliye Berger, Fureya Koral, and Bedri Rahmi Eyuboglu were not only focused on aesthetics. On the canvas, in criticism, and in the gallery, these cultural pioneers also grappled with economic questions-attempting to transform their country from a "developing nation" into a major player in the global markets of the postwar period. Smith's book publishes landmark works of Turkish modernism for the first time, along with an innovative array of sources-from gossip columns to economic theory-to reveal the art world as a key site for the articulation of Turkish nationhood at midcentury.

General

Imprint:	University of California Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	March 2022
First published:	2022
Authors:	Sarah-Neel Smith
Dimensions:	254 x 178 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	232
ISBN-13:	978-0-520-38341-8
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > The arts: general issues > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > General Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > From 1900 > Art styles, 1960 - > General
LSN:	0-520-38341-9
Barcode:	9780520383418

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