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This is a major, two-volume anthology of primary source texts on postwar American art between 1945 and 1989, translated from a wide range of European languages into English for the first time and augmented by scholarly essays.
List of contents
Editors’ Introduction and Acknowledgments by Claudia Hopkins, Iain Boyd Whyte
PART 1: CONTEXTUAL ESSAYS
Western Europe
- A ‘Special Relationship’: British and American Art 1945–89 - David Hopkins
- The Irish Diaspora, the Cold War and American Art in Ireland - Brenda McCann
- With Love (and Hate) from Paris - Serge Guilbaut
4. Art on its Head: American Art in Belgium 1958-1978 - Johan Pas
5. The Reception of American Art in the Netherlands - Jonneke Jobse
- American Art in Cold War West Germany - Iain Boyd Whyte
- "Muses with a Cold"- Austria, the visual arts and the Cold War - Oliver Sukrow and Iain Boyd Whyte
- Isle of the Blessed—audiences shocked: American Art in Switzerland 1945-1990 - Nathalie Ritter and Thomas Schmutz
Northern Europe:
- American Art Viewed from Denmark: From Skepticism to Acceptance - Tania Orum
- Norway and American Postwar Art during the Cold War - Åsmund Thorkildsen
- American Art in Swedish Art Criticism: An Introduction - Annika Oehrner and with Karolina Uggla
12. An Introduction to American Art in Finland after 1945 - Maritta Mellais
Part 2: TEXTS 1945-1990
1. Great Britain
2. Ireland
3. France
4. Belgium
5. The Netherlands
6. West Germany
7. Austria
8. Switzerland
9. Denmark
10. Norway
11. Sweden
12. Finland
About the author
Claudia Hopkins is Senior Lecturer in History of Art at the University of Edinburgh.
Iain Boyd Whyte is Professor of Architectural History at the University of Edinburgh.
Summary
This is a major, two-volume anthology of primary source texts on postwar American art between 1945 and 1989, translated from a wide range of European languages into English for the first time and augmented by scholarly essays.
