Experiments in Modern Realism: World Making, Politics and the Everyday in Postwar European and American Art

by Alex Potts

This major study offers a new understanding of the aesthetics and politics of postwar European and American art. Questioning the widespread assumption that the most innovative practices were non-representational, it shows how a powerful realist impulse operated alongside a strong commitment to abstraction. Alex Potts makes the case that the ambition to create work that engaged with the everyday and political realities of the world motivated much...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300187688
• ISBN13: 9780300187687
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 2.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.5" x 9.4"