New Histories of Art in the Global Postwar Era

Flavia Frigeri is an Art Historian and Curator. She is currently Curator for Missing Narratives on Women at the National Portrait Gallery in London.Kristian Handberg is an Art Historian. He is currently Assistant Professor in the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies at the University of Copenhagen.

• Introduction. Towards a New Understanding of Globalism in Postwar ArtFlavia Frigeri and Kristian Handberg 1. Prologue: Art History’s Work-in Pro(re)gress: Reflections on the Multiple Modernities ProjectTerry Smith PART 1 Crossings and Encounters: Retracing Artists’ Itineraries 2. Expression for All: Ferlov, Mancoba, Tajiri and the Art of Cobra Karen Kurczynski3. Origins and Brinks: Multiple Modernisms in Postwar London Giulia Smith4. Multiple Resistances to the Concept of Modernism: The Emergence of Artistic-Poetic Networks between Eastern Europe and Latin America in the late 1960s and 1970s. Katarzyna Cytlak5. Urban Folklore: Marta Minujín's Postwar Assemblage and the Modern City Elize Mazadiego6. Yayoi Kusama as a Migrant Artist: An Artistic Trajectory as a Model for the Understanding of Postwar Art Marie Laurberg7. The Overworked Ground: Franz Erhard Walther in New York Stephanie StrainePART 2 Against the Norm: Decentering and Resisting the Canon 8. Blinded by Mao: The Challenge of Seeing Modernism in Art of the People’s Republic Karen Stock9. "Iranian Modernism" and the Idea of Indigenous Art: Translations, Adoptions and (mis)interpretations Combiz Moussavi-Aghdam10. Camouflaged Dissent – A Plastic Umbrella and Transparent Balloons: "Happenings" in South Korea, 1967–1968Sooran Choi11. A Postcard from Addis: Ethiopian Modernism(s) in the World Kate Cowcher12. The Cultural Politics of Négritude and the Debates around the Brazilian Participation in the First World Festival of Negro Arts (Dakar, 1966) Sabrina Moura13. An Index of Modernity: Feminist Furniture by Teresa Burga and Beatriz GonzálezSofia GottiPART 3 Collecting Modernisms – Exhibiting Modernisms 14. Traveler’s Tales: Alfred Barr, the Soviet Union and International Modernism in the Postwar Period Masha Chlenova15. Displaying Whose Modernity? The Bardis and the Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo Camila Maroja16. Cosmonaut Paintings as Contemporary Art: The Soviet Union at the Venice Biennale, 1956–1968Kristian Handberg17. All that Jazz: Rome’s Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna and the Rise of Abstraction in Postwar ItalyFlavia Frigeri