Painting Politics And The Struggle For The Ecole De Paris 1944 1964

Download or read book Painting, Politics and the Struggle for the École de Paris, 1944-1964 written by Natalie Adamson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-09-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By thoroughly mining the extensive resources of the newspaper and art journal press, gallery and government archives, artists' writings and interviews with surviving artists and art critics, Natalie Adamson traces the artists, exhibitions, and art critical debates that made the École de Paris a zone of aesthetic and political conflict. This study presents a wholly new perspective on the vexed relationships between painting, politics, and national identity in postwar France.