ABSTRACT
The burgeoning field of multiple modernisms is posing new curatorial challenges to these institutions, and inviting visitors themselves to take part in the formation of new narratives of art history. With regard to the multiple modernisms paradigm, the Post-war project expressed coinciding academic and curatorial reassessments, with the aim to draw the most comprehensive and global picture, while at same time accentuating the multiple and shunning the “canonical.” A significant and focus of the art world centers on the post-war era, as demonstrated by a veritable wave of exhibitions such as the monumental Post-war: Art between the Pacific and the Atlantic, 1945–1965 in Munich. Nevertheless, the historiographical map is changing and the stakes of the postwar era are rising significantly as modernism is dynamically rethought as a truly global phenomenon. Curatorial explorations and art historical studies, for their part, are recasting artistic modernism, as well as the broader cultural context of the post-war world, in a global perspective.
