Making Art History in Europe After 1945

Noemi de Haro García is Ramón y Cajal Research Fellow in the Art History Department of the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.Patricia Mayayo is Senior Lecturer in the Art History Department of the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.Jesus Carrillo is Senior Lecturer in the Art History Department of the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.

• 1. The (Re)Makings of Art History and Europe after 1945 [Noemi de Haro García, Patricia Mayayo and Jesús Carrillo] Section 1: Europe after the Rain 2. The Allied Cultural Policies in Germany after 1945: between “Re-education” and the Politization of the Arts [Morgane Walter] 3. UNESCO’s Color Reproductions Project: Bringing (French) Art to the World [Rachel Perry] 4. Curatorial Experiments at the National Gallery after the Second World War. Reframing History and the Pursuit of Aesthetic Experience [Ana Baeza Ruiz] 5. The Venice Biennale at Its Turning Points: 1948 and the Aftermath of 1968 [Stefano Collicelli and Vittoria Martini] Section 2: Re-reading Cold-War Narratives 6. The Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade and Post-Revolutionary Desire: Producing the Art History Narrative of Yugoslav Modern Art [Jasmina Čubrilo] 7. Artists in Service of the Masses: The Untold Story of the Yugoslav Socialist Realist Project [Ivana Hanaček] 8. Simultaneous Equations: Early Cold War Cultural Politics and the History of Art in Greece [Areti Adamopoulou] 9. Cold War Art Historiography: Some Observations on an Interdisciplinary Approach through the Social Sciences, [Nancy Jachec] 10. Something is Happening Here. Spaces and Figures of Change in Post-War Portugal [Luis Trindade] Section 3: A New Europe? 11. Art Policies, Identity and Ideology in Spain during the 1980s [Daniel A. Verdú Schumann] 12. Official Art Becoming Resistance. Adopting the Discourse of Dissent into Estonian Art History Writings [Kädi Talvoja]13. Gendering Art and Art History in Poland: A Story of Subversion [Paweł Leszkowicz] 14. Narrating Dissident Art in Spain: the Case of Desacuerdos. Sobre Arte, Políticas y Esfera Pública (2003-2005) [Alberto López Cuenca]

"In sum, this book highlights an interesting omission in art historiography, and sets a new agenda in decentralising the approach of art historiography by shifting the focus from a regional to a geopolitical perspective."--Journal of Art Historiography