Overview
Okwui Enwezor’s 2016 exhibition Postwar: Art between the Pacific and the Atlantic, 1945–1965 redefined the history of art produced in those two decades. Nearly a decade later, Postwar Revisited returns to these debates to present an image of a historical period in which Western conceptions of art, aesthetics, and philosophy are all thrown into intense flux after Auschwitz and Hiroshima, while the cultural energies of decolonization generate myriad artistic and intellectual practices across the globe, which re-engage the connections of art to life itself. Focusing on modernist artists, artist collectives, and architects central to dissonant regional traditions, as well as influential exhibitions and patronage systems, the contributors produce a new understanding of emergent postwar global art. Provoking new ways of thinking, engaging, and narrating art history, Postwar Revisited is essential reading for those interested in debates on global art history and global modernism, the intersections between art and decolonization, the cultural aspects of the Cold War and the Non-Aligned Movement, and modern and contemporary art more generally. Contributors. Iftikhar Dadi, Okwui Enwezor, Patrick Flores, Hal Foster, Boris Groys, Atreyee Gupta, Elizabeth Harney, Jennifer Josten, Vivian Li, Tara McDowell, Alexandra Munroe, Nada Shabout, Terry Smith, Jenni Sorkin, Ming Tiampo
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Author: Okwui Enwezor ,
Atreyee Gupta
Publisher: Duke University Press
Imprint: Duke University Press
Weight: 0.703kg
ISBN: 9781478031451
ISBN 10: 147803145
Pages: 360
Publication Date: 31 March 2025
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
“Okwui Enwezor envisioned the vectors of art and discourse zigzagging within the historical paradigm of postcolonial globality. Witness his momentous 2002 Documenta, his 2015 Venice Biennale (All the World’s Futures), and his sweeping periodization of twentieth-century art history: Postwar, Postcolonial, Post-Communism. His 2016 Postwar exhibition offered divergent radicalities, and so do the related, multiauthored books, including this anthology, coedited with art historian Atreyee Gupta. Committed to ‘thinking historically in the present,’ Enwezor articulated for the art world a complex dynamic of the contemporary.” - Geeta Kapur, author of (When Was Modernism: Essays on Contemporary Cultural Practice in India) “Rethinking the narrow Euro-American basis of ‘postwar’ as an art historical epoch, Postwar Revisited makes a major contribution. It reflects and will further influence the broader spirit of revisionism toward more global understandings of the twentieth century that have been effectively redefining the field of art history over the past two decades.” - Saloni Mathur, author of (A Fragile Inheritance: Radical Stakes in Contemporary Indian Art)
“Okwui Enwezor envisioned the vectors of art and discourse zigzagging within the historical paradigm of postcolonial globality. Witness his momentous 2002 Documenta, his 2015 Venice Biennale (All the World’s Futures) and his sweeping periodization of twentieth-century art history: Postwar, Postcolonial, Post-Communism. The Postwar exhibition offered divergent radicalities, so do the related, multiauthored books, including this anthology coedited with art historian Atreyee Gupta. Committed to ‘thinking historically in the present,’ Enwezor articulated for the art world a complex dynamic of the contemporary.” -- Geeta Kapur, author of * When was Modernism: Essays on Contemporary Cultural Practice in India *
Author Information
Okwui Enwezor (1963–2019) was an internationally recognized and pathbreaking art curator, the former director of Haus der Kunst, founder of Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art, and the coauthor of numerous books and exhibition catalogs. Atreyee Gupta is Associate Professor of Global Modern Art and South and Southeast Asian Art at the University of California, Berkeley, and author of Non-Aligned: Art, Decolonization, and the Third World Project in India.
