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Challenging the dominant view that American Abstract Expressionism triumphed in Western Europe in the immediate post-war period, this book considers the proliferation of gesture painting there from a European perspective. -- .

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
List of figures
Abbreviations
Introduction: the Idea of Europe
1 The Abstraction-Realism Debate and its background, 1938-1948
2 Communism, anti-Communism, and government intervention at the Venice Biennale, 1948-1952
3 The Biennali of 1954-1956: the politics of Realism
4 The 1958 Biennale: the collapse of the Ente and the rise of Gesture Painting as the ‘European Idea’
5 The Biennali of 1960 and 1962: from European to global cultural policy
6 Gesture Painting in Communist Europe
7 Gesture Painting in Africa, Asia and Latin America
8 Epilogue: the 1964 Biennale: the end of Gesture Painting
Bibliography

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      Publisher: Manchester University Press
      Publication Date: 9/1/2007 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780719068966, 978-0719068966
      ISBN10: 0719068967

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Challenging the dominant view that American Abstract Expressionism triumphed in Western Europe in the immediate post-war period, this book considers the proliferation of gesture painting there from a European perspective. -- .

      Table of Contents

      Acknowledgements
      List of figures
      Abbreviations
      Introduction: the Idea of Europe
      1 The Abstraction-Realism Debate and its background, 1938-1948
      2 Communism, anti-Communism, and government intervention at the Venice Biennale, 1948-1952
      3 The Biennali of 1954-1956: the politics of Realism
      4 The 1958 Biennale: the collapse of the Ente and the rise of Gesture Painting as the ‘European Idea’
      5 The Biennali of 1960 and 1962: from European to global cultural policy
      6 Gesture Painting in Communist Europe
      7 Gesture Painting in Africa, Asia and Latin America
      8 Epilogue: the 1964 Biennale: the end of Gesture Painting
      Bibliography

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