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8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 POSTWAR: ART BETWEEN THE PACIFIC AND THE ATLANTIC 1945 – 1965 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 POSTWAR: ART BETWEEN THE PACIFIC AND THE ATLANTIC 1945 – 1965 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 EDITED BY OKWUI ENWEZOR KATY SIEGEL ULRICH WILMES P RESTEL MUNICH · LONDON · NEW YORK 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 EDITED BY OKWUI ENWEZOR KATY SIEGEL ULRICH WILMES P RESTEL MUNICH · LONDON · NEW YORK TABLE OF EXHIBITION SECTIONS 3. NEW IMAGES OF MAN 5. CONCRETE VISIONS 7. NATIONS SEEKING FORM 1. AFTERMATH: 338 Section Introduction 476 Section Introduction ZERO HOUR AND THE 624 Section Introduction CONTENTS 340 Yule Heibel 478 Pedro Erber ATOMIC ERA Germany’s Postwar Out of Words: The 626 Galia Bar Or 132 Section Introduction Search for a New Spacetime of Concrete Channels for Image of Man Poetry Democratic Iteration 134 Yasufumi Nakamori Imagining a City 344 Sarah Wilson 632 Atreyee Gupta 484 Andrea Giunta PATRON’S STATEMENT DIRECTOR’S FOREWORD Through Photography New Images of Man: After Bandung: Simultaneous 7 Dr. Frank-Walter 13 Okwui Enwezor 140 Stephen Petersen Postwar Humanism Abstractions and Post- Transacting the Nation Steinmeier “Forms Disintegrate”: and its Challenges war Latin American Art in a Postcolonial World Federal Minister for CURATORS’ Painting in the Shadow in the West 638 Chika Okeke-Agulu 490 Mari Carmen Ramirez Foreign Affairs ACKNOWLEDGMENTS of the Bomb 350 Homi K. Bhabha Fanon, National Culture, The Necessity of Con- 17 Okwui Enwezor, 146 Ariella Azoulay Remembering Fanon: creteness: A View from and the Politics of BAVARIAN STATE Katy Siegel, The Natural History of Self, Psyche, and the the (Global?) South Form in Postwar Africa Lygtiaak Celsa rpkla’sc fier astt Smiagjnoar lEs,u Lroopnedaonn , e1x9h6ib5it.ion MINISTER’S STATEMENT Ulrich Wilmes Rape Colonial Condition 9 Dr. Ludwig Spaenle 6. COSMOPOLITAN APPENDIXES Minister of State for INTRODUCTORY ESSAYS 4. REALISMS MODERNISMS Education and Culture, 20 Okwui Enwezor 418 Section Introduction 558 Section Introduction 759 Selected Documents Science and Art The Judgment of Art: 420 Alejandro Anreus 776 Artists’ Biographies 560 Zainab Bahrani Postwar and Artistic Whatever happened to 806 Bibliography PREFACES Baghdad Modernism Worldliness Realism after 1945? 812 About the 10 Johannes Ebert 42 Katy Siegel Figuration and Politics 566 Catherine Grenier Contributors Secretary-General, Art, World, History in the Western Plural Modernities: Goethe-Institut Hemisphere A History of a Cosmo- 816 List of Works 58 Ulrich Wilmes politan Modernity 11 Hortensia Völckers Postwar: (TDaennakkifau Akuts) uakto t hwee 2anridn gG huetar i EAlertc Etrxich iDbirteiosns , 424 Ekaterina Degot 826 Index Artistic Director, Denazification and Tokyo, 1956. Commitment to 570 Courtney J. Martin 834 List of Lenders Kulturstiftung des Reeducation Humility Exiles, Émigrés and Hermann Nitsch’s first Aktion (‘Action’) 836 List of Bundes Cosmopolitans: takes place on December 19 at the flat of 68 Mark Mazower 2. FORM MATTERS 430 Anneka Lenssen London’s Postwar Art Otto Mühl, Vienna, 1963. Acknowledgments AAdlemxiannisdtreart iFvea rDeinrehcotoltrz, Postwar: 212 Section Introduction Exchangeable Realism World 840 Image Credits The Melancholy 436 Gao Minglu Kulturstiftung des History of a Term 214 Emily Braun The Historical Logic of 574 Tobias Wofford 844 Colophon Bundes The Dirt Paradigm The Black 8. NETWORKS, MEDIA & 74 Dipesh Chakrabarty Chinese Nationalist Cosmopolitans COMMUNICATION Legacies of Bandung: 220 Salah M. Hassan Realism from the 580 Damian Lentini 682 Section Introduction Decolonization and the When Identity Becomes 1940s to the 1960s Politics of Culture “Form”: Calligraphic 442 Nikolas Drosos and Cosmopolitan 684 Ješa Denegri Abstraction and Suda- Contaminations: Artists, Art in the Network of Romy Golan VISUAL ESSAYS AND nese Modernism Realism as Objects, Media Technological Media CHRONOLOGIES 226 Geeta Kapur International Style and Mass Communica- Compiled by Damian Lentini Material Facture tion: New Tendencies and Daniel Milnes 688 Walter Grasskamp 232 Richard Shiff 82 Visual Essay: Social 0 to 1 True Grid Installation view of the Ninth Street Show, New York, 1951. and Political Events 238 Terry Smith 692 Anne Massey 96 Chronology of Social Abstraction and Ideol- Reframing the and Political Events ogy: Contestation in Independent Group 102 Visual Essay: Arts Cold War Art Criticism 696 Pamela M. Lee and and Culture Fred Turner The Cybernetic Vision 116 Chronology of in Postwar Art Arts and Culture Jewad Selim’s Monument of Freedom at Tahrir Square, Baghdad, 1962. TABLE OF EXHIBITION SECTIONS 3. NEW IMAGES OF MAN 5. CONCRETE VISIONS 7. NATIONS SEEKING FORM 1. AFTERMATH: 338 Section Introduction 476 Section Introduction ZERO HOUR AND THE 624 Section Introduction CONTENTS 340 Yule Heibel 478 Pedro Erber ATOMIC ERA Germany’s Postwar Out of Words: The 626 Galia Bar Or 132 Section Introduction Search for a New Spacetime of Concrete Channels for Image of Man Poetry Democratic Iteration 134 Yasufumi Nakamori Imagining a City 344 Sarah Wilson 632 Atreyee Gupta 484 Andrea Giunta PATRON’S STATEMENT DIRECTOR’S FOREWORD Through Photography New Images of Man: After Bandung: Simultaneous 7 Dr. Frank-Walter 13 Okwui Enwezor 140 Stephen Petersen Postwar Humanism Abstractions and Post- Transacting the Nation Steinmeier “Forms Disintegrate”: and its Challenges war Latin American Art in a Postcolonial World Federal Minister for CURATORS’ Painting in the Shadow in the West 638 Chika Okeke-Agulu 490 Mari Carmen Ramirez Foreign Affairs ACKNOWLEDGMENTS of the Bomb 350 Homi K. Bhabha Fanon, National Culture, The Necessity of Con- 17 Okwui Enwezor, 146 Ariella Azoulay Remembering Fanon: creteness: A View from and the Politics of BAVARIAN STATE Katy Siegel, The Natural History of Self, Psyche, and the the (Global?) South Form in Postwar Africa Lygtiaak Celsa rpkla’sc fier astt Smiagjnoar lEs,u Lroopnedaonn , e1x9h6ib5it.ion MINISTER’S STATEMENT Ulrich Wilmes Rape Colonial Condition 9 Dr. Ludwig Spaenle 6. COSMOPOLITAN APPENDIXES Minister of State for INTRODUCTORY ESSAYS 4. REALISMS MODERNISMS Education and Culture, 20 Okwui Enwezor 418 Section Introduction 558 Section Introduction 759 Selected Documents Science and Art The Judgment of Art: 420 Alejandro Anreus 776 Artists’ Biographies 560 Zainab Bahrani Postwar and Artistic Whatever happened to 806 Bibliography PREFACES Baghdad Modernism Worldliness Realism after 1945? 812 About the 10 Johannes Ebert 42 Katy Siegel Figuration and Politics 566 Catherine Grenier Contributors Secretary-General, Art, World, History in the Western Plural Modernities: Goethe-Institut Hemisphere A History of a Cosmo- 816 List of Works 58 Ulrich Wilmes politan Modernity 11 Hortensia Völckers Postwar: (TDaennakkifau Akuts) uakto t hwee 2anridn gG huetar i EAlertc Etrxich iDbirteiosns , 424 Ekaterina Degot 826 Index Artistic Director, Denazification and Tokyo, 1956. Commitment to 570 Courtney J. Martin 834 List of Lenders Kulturstiftung des Reeducation Humility Exiles, Émigrés and Hermann Nitsch’s first Aktion (‘Action’) 836 List of Bundes Cosmopolitans: takes place on December 19 at the flat of 68 Mark Mazower 2. FORM MATTERS 430 Anneka Lenssen London’s Postwar Art Otto Mühl, Vienna, 1963. Acknowledgments AAdlemxiannisdtreart iFvea rDeinrehcotoltrz, Postwar: 212 Section Introduction Exchangeable Realism World 840 Image Credits The Melancholy 436 Gao Minglu Kulturstiftung des History of a Term 214 Emily Braun The Historical Logic of 574 Tobias Wofford 844 Colophon Bundes The Dirt Paradigm The Black 8. NETWORKS, MEDIA & 74 Dipesh Chakrabarty Chinese Nationalist Cosmopolitans COMMUNICATION Legacies of Bandung: 220 Salah M. Hassan Realism from the 580 Damian Lentini 682 Section Introduction Decolonization and the When Identity Becomes 1940s to the 1960s Politics of Culture “Form”: Calligraphic 442 Nikolas Drosos and Cosmopolitan 684 Ješa Denegri Abstraction and Suda- Contaminations: Artists, Art in the Network of Romy Golan VISUAL ESSAYS AND nese Modernism Realism as Objects, Media Technological Media CHRONOLOGIES 226 Geeta Kapur International Style and Mass Communica- Compiled by Damian Lentini Material Facture tion: New Tendencies and Daniel Milnes 688 Walter Grasskamp 232 Richard Shiff 82 Visual Essay: Social 0 to 1 True Grid Installation view of the Ninth Street Show, New York, 1951. and Political Events 238 Terry Smith 692 Anne Massey 96 Chronology of Social Abstraction and Ideol- Reframing the and Political Events ogy: Contestation in Independent Group 102 Visual Essay: Arts Cold War Art Criticism 696 Pamela M. Lee and and Culture Fred Turner The Cybernetic Vision 116 Chronology of in Postwar Art Arts and Culture Jewad Selim’s Monument of Freedom at Tahrir Square, Baghdad, 1962. PATRON’S STATEMENT Dr. Frank-Walter Steinmeier · Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs A n examination of the global development of modern art In a world that seems to be coming apart at the seams, cultural between the end of World War II and 1965 is an ambitious politics has a decisive role to play in this process. Both inside and outside but highly worthwhile undertaking. Haus der Kunst has our country, we must learn to see the whole picture. The more we trust taken on that challenge. The result, in my opinion, is impres- the social capacity of culture and education to keep differences from sive: an exhibition that aims to offer its visitors new perspectives on the leading to misunderstandings, misunderstandings to conflicts, and artistic development of the period worldwide. The show presents works conflicts to wars, the more possible that will be. This is precisely the aim by 218 artists, many of them barely known in Europe, from more than of Postwar: to contribute to exploring and understanding other perspec- sixty countries. Postwar makes possible a change of vantage points and tives. That is why I was glad to take on the show’s patronage. introduces us to things of which we were previously unaware. Both are I would like to extend my sincere thanks to all involved in the urgent necessities, because—in politics but also elsewhere—to insist that realization of this exhibition for their outstanding work, in particular one is in possession of the absolute truth only leads to deadlocks and con- Okwui Enwezor, Ulrich Wilmes, and Katy Siegel. I wish all of the ex- flicts. If we want peaceful global development to have a chance, we must hibition’s visitors new insights and new impulses for lively discussion. all strive to acquaint ourselves with different perceptions of the same reality. Only if we succeed in accepting different viewpoints and then uniting them in dialogue will we succeed in true mutual understanding. Dr. Frank-Walter Steinmeier 7 PATRON’S STATEMENT Dr. Frank-Walter Steinmeier · Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs A n examination of the global development of modern art In a world that seems to be coming apart at the seams, cultural between the end of World War II and 1965 is an ambitious politics has a decisive role to play in this process. Both inside and outside but highly worthwhile undertaking. Haus der Kunst has our country, we must learn to see the whole picture. The more we trust taken on that challenge. The result, in my opinion, is impres- the social capacity of culture and education to keep differences from sive: an exhibition that aims to offer its visitors new perspectives on the leading to misunderstandings, misunderstandings to conflicts, and artistic development of the period worldwide. The show presents works conflicts to wars, the more possible that will be. This is precisely the aim by 218 artists, many of them barely known in Europe, from more than of Postwar: to contribute to exploring and understanding other perspec- sixty countries. Postwar makes possible a change of vantage points and tives. That is why I was glad to take on the show’s patronage. introduces us to things of which we were previously unaware. Both are I would like to extend my sincere thanks to all involved in the urgent necessities, because—in politics but also elsewhere—to insist that realization of this exhibition for their outstanding work, in particular one is in possession of the absolute truth only leads to deadlocks and con- Okwui Enwezor, Ulrich Wilmes, and Katy Siegel. I wish all of the ex- flicts. If we want peaceful global development to have a chance, we must hibition’s visitors new insights and new impulses for lively discussion. all strive to acquaint ourselves with different perceptions of the same reality. Only if we succeed in accepting different viewpoints and then uniting them in dialogue will we succeed in true mutual understanding. Dr. Frank-Walter Steinmeier 7
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