ABSTRACT
Hot Art, Cold War – Southern and Eastern European Writing on American Art 1945-1990 is one of two text anthologies that trace the reception of American art in Europe during the Cold War era through primary sources.
Translated into English for the first time from sixteen languages and introduced by scholarly essays, the texts in this volume offer a representative selection of the diverse responses to American art in Portugal, Italy, Spain, Greece, Yugoslavia, Romania, Bulgaria, Soviet Union (including the Baltic States), Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary, and East Germany (GDR). There was no single European discourse, as attitudes to American art were determined by a wide range of ideological, political, social, cultural and artistic positions that varied considerably across the European nations.
This volume and its companion, Hot Art, Cold War – Northern and Western European Writing on American Art 1945-1990, offer the reader a unique opportunity to compare how European art writers introduced and explained contemporary American art to their many and varied audiences.
Whilst many are fluent in one or two foreign languages, few are able to read all twenty-five languages represented in the two volumes. These ground-breaking publications significantly enrich the fields of American art studies and European art criticism.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|56 pages
Portugal
part 2|70 pages
Spain
part 3|56 pages
Italy
part 4|38 pages
Greece
chapter |11 pages
Towards a Geopolitics of Reception:
part 5|61 pages
Yugoslavia
part 6|25 pages
Bulgaria
part 7|46 pages
Romania
part 8|46 pages
Hungary
part 9|54 pages
Czechoslovakia
part 10|63 pages
Soviet Union and the Baltic States
chapter |6 pages
From Thaw to Perestroika—Battle for Contemporaneity:
part 11|51 pages
Poland
chapter |13 pages
Official and Unofficial Introductions:
part 12|38 pages
German Democratic Republic