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familiar, even classic memorial landscape, much discussed in the context of Holocaust and Second World War commemoration: the city of Berlin. In the process, we will see how recent multimedia and narratively pluralistic developments in memorial culture transformed the more combative and purportedly unidirectional monuments built in the shadow of the Cold War in their use and reception. Contrary to nationalist rhetoric before and after fascism, Germany and Austria have long been migration societies, historically in
“great” society, since the early days of the Cold War in the United States. The “contemporary” is, in other words, one of the spoils gained at the end of the Cold War. Where this War has not yet ended (as in North Korea), one cannot fully imagine the network logic of contemporary art. The impact of the SCCA network The historical significance of the SCCA network can be discussed using the old Marxist relation of material “base” – the institutional and administrative structures established by these institutions in Eastern Europe
, the entire book) attempts to outline a would-be “aesthetics” of this “open society,” in order to comprehend what is, or could have been, the space of art in postsocialism. This chapter will examine a small segment of the vast ideological universe of new or neo-liberalism. It engages with the work of a few intellectuals who have left a deep impact not only on post-1989 reforms in Eastern Europe, but also on the world. This sector has been known by many names, including such terms as “Cold War liberalism,” “liberalism of fear,” “Austrianism
I The title There you have it! The feminist is out in her true colours. Killing men. That’s what you’ve always suspected about feminists. Man-haters the lot of them! With help from philosopher Jacques Derrida, I invite you to reconsider what you see when I write Killing Men and Dying Women. Killing men implies that men are being killed. Killing can be adjectival, qualifying men as agents of violence. Men kill. Soldiers, perhaps, or warriors in a Cold War. Similar undecidability nestles in dying women
countercultural techno-utopian connectivity. 68 At the world’s fair: Cold War communication These aspects of Minujín’s works become particularly apparent when Minucode and Simultaneidad en simultaneidad are considered in relation to Circuit (Super Heterodyne) , Minujín’s third major sociological Happening of the 1960s. 69 Just as Minucode responded to the sociocultural mélange of celebrity, power and influence in New York, Circuit (Super Heterodyne) registered the geopolitical power play of Expo ’67, which took place in Montreal, its pavilions spilling through the
the United States through the Cold War years. While American art history with a transatlantic focus has tended to privilege French, British, and German ties, these chapters highlight a more nuanced body of contemporary research on Italian–American exchange that moves beyond a discussion of ‘influence’ as a one-way directive towards a deeper understanding of cultural transactions that profoundly
The major part of this book project was funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 700913.
This book is about two distinct but related professional cultures in late Soviet
Russia that were concerned with material objects: industrial design and
decorative art. The Russian avant-garde of the 1920s is broadly recognised to
have been Russia’s first truly original contribution to world culture. In
contrast, Soviet design of the post-war period is often dismissed as hackwork
and plagiarism that resulted in a shabby world of commodities. This book
identifies the second historical attempt at creating a powerful alternative to
capitalist commodities in the Cold War era. It offers a new perspective on the
history of Soviet material culture by focusing on the notion of the ‘comradely
object’ as an agent of progressive social relations that state-sponsored Soviet
design inherited from the avant-garde. It introduces a shared history of
domestic objects, handmade as well as machine-made, mass-produced as well as
unique, utilitarian as well as challenging the conventional notion of utility.
Situated at the intersection of intellectual history, social history and
material culture studies, this book elucidates the complexities and
contradictions of Soviet design that echoed international tendencies of the late
twentieth century. The book is addressed to design historians, art historians,
scholars of material culture, historians of Russia and the USSR, as well as
museum and gallery curators, artists and designers, and the broader public
interested in modern aesthetics, art and design, and/or the legacy of socialist
regimes.
norms and procedures,” is a direct reference to what some former employers and observers believe to have been the main contribution of these organizations in the constitution of the new paradigm of contemporary art. And while the latter has been advertised and promoted as the “art of the open society,” or as the “free art concept” 1 (whose ideological underpinnings are discussed in the next chapter in the context of Cold War liberalism), here I examine some of the new patterns and norms of this new paradigm, by
"Republics and empires showcases transnational perspectives that address the significance of Italy for American art and visual culture while outlining the impact of the United States on Italian art and popular culture. Covering the period from the Risorgimento to the Cold War, this collection of chapters illuminates the complexity of the visual discourses that bound two relatively new nations together. It also pays substantial attention to literary and critical texts that addressed the evolving cultural relationship between Italy and the United States.
Taking into account the significant historical events that linked Italy and the United States, Part I: ‘Hybrid Republicanisms’ and Part II: ‘The Courses of Empire’ highlight important cross-cultural issues. The first section concentrates on the shared notions of republicanism and tyranny that animated American and Italian politics in the long nineteenth century. Rather imperfectly, both nations attempted to bind a community of diverse peoples together on the common values of liberty, equality, and the pursuit of happiness. The second exposes how the liberal tendencies of nationalism gave way to imperial ambition, and how this transition was given visual and cultural form in Italian and American high art and popular culture.
The anthology serves as a valuable introduction to American-Italian cultural relations. Its fourteen historicised case studies by Italian and American scholars trace how gender, race, ethnicity, and class interests intersect with the powerful political and cultural dynamics of both nations.
This book analyses the use of the past and the production of heritage through architectural design in the developmental context of Iran. It is the first of its kind to utilize a multidisciplinary approach in probing the complex relationship between architecture, development, and heritage. It uses established theoretical concepts including notions of globalism, nostalgia, tradition, and authenticity to show that development is a major cause of historical transformations in places such as Iran and its effects must be seen in relation to global political and historical exchanges as well as local specificities. Iran is a pertinent example as it has endured radical cultural and political shifts in the past five decades. Scholars of heritage and architecture will find the cross-disciplinary aspects of the book useful. The premise of the book is that transposed into other contexts, development, as a globalizing project originating in the West, instigates renewed forms of historical consciousness and imaginations of the past. This is particularly evident in architecture where, through design processes, the past produces forms of architectural heritage. But such historic consciousness cannot be reduced to political ideology, while politics is always in the background. The book shows this through chapters focusing on theoretical context, international exchanges made in architectural congresses in the 1970s, housing as the vehicle for everyday heritage, and symbolic public architecture intended to reflect monumental time. The book is written in accessible language to benefit academic researchers and graduate students in the fields of heritage, architecture, and Iranian and Middle Eastern studies.