Modern Art and the Global Cold War

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Much scholarly and curatorial work in the field of global art history has focused on contemporary art, and on developments in the international art world under economic globalization, roughly since 1989. Yet the field's temporal frame has expanded over the last decade or so. Work in the field now includes scholarly articles and monographs, exhibition projects, and edited volumes that chart the international and transnational circuits of modern art since the end of World War II. Some of this work responds critically to an extensive literature on Cold War modernism whose most important hubs were never doubted to have been Paris and New York. This course engages an expanded history of modern art during the age of decolonization and the global Cold War, c 1945-1990.