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Westkunst | Zeitgenössische Kunst seit 1939, 1981

Westkunst

Zeitgenössische Kunst seit 1939
1981

Catalog of a key exhibition Westkunst. Zeitgenössische Kunst seit 1939, co-curated by Glozer and Kaspar König, Kölnermessehallen, Cologne (30.05–16.08.1981), showing ‘800 works by 200 artists.’ The curators selected (somewhat controversially) the year 1939 as a starting point from which to explore contemporary artistic developments in ‘western’ art’s relationship with the modern and modernism. Major chapters of the catalog are titled: The World War and the Modern, Abstraction as World Language, Between Progress and Refusal. Exhibited artists represented a vast range of positions including: Jean Arp, Max Beckmann, Günter Brus, Joseph Beuys, Alexander Calder, Marc Chagall, Constant, Joseph Cornell, Jean Fautrier, Jasper Johns, Paul Klee, Roberto Matta, Piet Mondrian, Henry Moore, Robert Motherwell, Barnett Newman, Claes Oldenburg, Francis Picabia, Pablo Picasso, Jackson Pollack, Man Ray, Mark Rothko, Kurt Schwitters, Dorothea Tanning, Wolf Vostell, Wols, etc.

    Editor

    Laszlo Glozer

    Author(s)

    Wieland Schulz-Keil
    Jürgen Glaesemer
    Jürg Hassler
    Piet Hoenderbos
    Christian Borngäber
    Chika Schultze-Rhonhof
    Bernard Safarik
    B + W Hein
    Friedrich Heubach
    Helmut Herbst
    Ernst Mitzka
    Bazon Brock
    Werner Nekes

    Publisher

    DuMont Buchverlag Köln

    ISBN

    3 7701 1292X

    Language

    German

    Type

    Catalog
    Title Year
    Westkunst 1981

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