Cold War Art Worlds
South Asian Art and Artists in Prague, 1947-1989

By (author) Simone Wille

ISBN13: 9789462704701

Imprint: Leuven University Press

Publisher: Leuven University Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Published: 01/09/2025

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Description
Prague as a vital Cold War hub for South Asian artists. During the Cold War, the Central-European capital of Prague, alongside other locations in the polarized post-war world, emerged as a key site where an art world of particular importance for artists from South Asia developed. By emphasizing cultural mobility as a catalyst for exchange and network building, this book challenges and complicates assumptions about Cold War binaries of East and West and the polarization between so-called totalitarian regimes and free cultures. Positioning Prague as a nexus where South-Asian modernisms intersected with multiple peoples, histories, and ideologies in the post-World War II era, it offers a narrative of decolonization that rejected rigid systemic alignment in favor of participation across blocs by prioritizing migratory aesthetics over nationalist parochialism. Well-researched and rich in archival materials, this book proposes new ways of writing art histories and makes a significant contribution to both Cold War studies and critical global modernism studies.
  • History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -
  • Oriental art
  • Professional & Vocational
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