Cobra Movement in Postwar Europe Reanimating Art

This book examines the art of Cobra, a network of poets and artists from Copenhagen, Brussels, and Amsterdam (1948-1951). Although the name stood for the organizers' home cities, the Cobra artists hailed from countries in Europe, Africa, and the United States.
This book investigates how a group of struggling young artists attempted to reinvent the international avant-garde after the devastation of the Second World War, to create artistic experiments capable of facing the challenges of postwar society. It explores how Cobra's experimental, often collective art works and publications relate to broader debates in Europe about the use of images to commemorate violent events, the possibility of free expression in an art world constrained by Cold War politics, the breakdown of primitivism in an era of colonial independence movements, and the importance of spontaneity in a society increasingly dominated by the mass media.
This book will be of interest to scholars in art history, 20th-century modern art, avant-garde arts, and European history.

Info autore

Karen Kurczynski is Associate Professor, History of Art and Architecture at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Riassunto

This book examines the art of Cobra, a network of poets and artists from Copenhagen, Brussels, and Amsterdam (1948–51). Although the name stood for the organizers’ home cities, the Cobra artists hailed from countries in Europe, Africa, and the United States.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Karen Kurczynski, Karen (University of Massachusetts Kurczynski, Kurczynski Karen
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Copertina rigida
• Data pubblicazione: 31.08.2020
• Categoria: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Arte > Storia dell'arte
• EAN: 9781138490840
• ISBN: 978-1-138-49084-0
• Numero di pagine: 292
• Serie: Routledge Research in Art History
• Categorie: Cobra, Albert Oehlen, Europe, Theory of art, Avant-garde, HISTORY / Europe / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, ART / History / General, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, ART / European, ART / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945), ART / Art & Politics, ART / History / Contemporary (1945-), ART / African, ART / American / General, HISTORY / Africa / South / Republic of South Africa, ART / Folk & Outsider Art, ars, Sans, History of Art, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Art & design styles: Modernist design & Bauhaus, West Germany, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period), HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / General, Non-Western Art, Collective Creativity, Christian Dotremont, Aldo van Eyck, Danish artists, Young Man, animal imagery, Cold War cultural politics, visual commemoration, Surrealist Exhibition, experimental art movements in Europe, decolonization and art, European art networks, postwar avant-garde, Raoul Ubac, children’s art, cobra movement, Jorn’s Painting, Revolutionary Surrealist, De Heusch, questioning children, Belgian Communist Party, Cobra Period