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From a Nation Torn

Decolonizing Art and Representation in France, 1945-1962

From a Nation Torn( )
Author: Feldman, Hannah
Series title:Objects/Histories Ser.
ISBN:978-0-8223-5356-0
Publication Date:Feb 2014
Publisher:Duke University Press
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $107.95
Book Description:

From a Nation Torn provides a powerful critique of art history's understanding of French modernism and the historical circumstances that shaped its production and reception. Within art history, the aesthetic practices and theories that emerged in France from the late 1940s into the 1960s are demarcated as postwar. Yet it was during these very decades that France fought a protracted series of wars to maintain its far-flung colonial empire. Given that French modernism was...
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Book Details
Pages:336
Detailed Subjects: Art / Art & Politics
Political Science / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism
History / Europe / France
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):6.942 x 9.906 x 0.585 Inches
Book Weight:1.94 Pounds



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