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Postwar Revisited: A Global Art History
Edited by
Okwui Enwezor;
Okwui Enwezor
Okwui Enwezor (1963–2019) was an internationally recognized and pathbreaking art curator, the former director of Haus der Kunst, founder of
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Duke University Press
ISBN electronic:
978-1-4780-6043-7
Publication date:
2025
The introduction explores the origins of the book in the 2016 exhibition Postwar: Art between the Pacific and the Atlantic, 1945-65, curated by the late Okwui Enwezor and shown at Haus der Kunst in Munich, Germany. It examines how Enwezor reconceived the postwar period in art as shaped less by the aftermath of war and more by emerging global modernism(s), motivated by interrogation of Western aesthetics following Hiroshima and the Holocaust, and by the energies released by decolonization.
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