1st Edition

Hot Art, Cold War � Southern and Eastern European Writing on American Art 1945-1990

Edited By Claudia Hopkins, Iain Boyd Whyte Copyright 2020
690 Pages 44 Color Illustrations
by Routledge

690 Pages 44 Color Illustrations
by Routledge

690 Pages 44 Color Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more

 1. Portugal

2. Spain

3. Italy

4. Greece

5. Yugoslavia

6. Bulgaris

7. Romania

8. Hungary

9. Czechoslovakia

10. Soviet Union and the Baltic States

11. Poland

12. East Germany (GDR)

Biography

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.

"Put simply, these volumes are an incredible resource for any scholar of American or European art during the Cold War period, as English readers can access overviews and archival examples of the reception of American art from the entirety of Europe and from 20 different languages. With its more honest and complete accounting of American art during the Cold War, material from these books will certainly find their way into many undergraduate and graduate syllabi."

--Critique d’art