Claudia Mesch is Associate Professor of Art History at the School of Art at Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona. She is the editor, with Viola Michely, of 'Joseph Beuys: The Reader' (I.B. Tauris, 2007) and is founding editor of the e-journal 'Surrealism and the Americas'. She writes on diverse topics in twentieth-century and contemporary art, especially postwar modernism, its ties to surrealism, and European intellectual history, and is working on a study of European intellectuals' and surrealism's preoccupation with Native American culture. She is a frequent contributor of art and film criticism to 'Sculpture', 'caa.reviews' and 'The Art Book'.

• TABLE OF CONTENTSList of Illustrations AcknowledgementsIntroduction I. Recuperating the Modern II. Marking the Postwar City III. Bonjour Monsieur Courbet: Realist painting and the defector dialecticIV. Performance West and East: the freedom of failure V. Art on TV: the other Cold War divideEpilogue Index

Claudia Mesch is Associate Professor of Art History at the School of Art at Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona. She is the editor, with Viola Michely, of 'Joseph Beuys: The Reader' (I.B. Tauris, 2007) and is founding editor of the e-journal 'Surrealism and the Americas'. She writes on diverse topics in twentieth-century and contemporary art, especially postwar modernism, its ties to surrealism, and European intellectual history, and is working on a study of European intellectuals' and surrealism's preoccupation with Native American culture. She is a frequent contributor of art and film criticism to 'Sculpture', 'caa.reviews' and 'The Art Book'.

• TABLE OF CONTENTSList of Illustrations AcknowledgementsIntroduction I. Recuperating the Modern II. Marking the Postwar City III. Bonjour Monsieur Courbet: Realist painting and the defector dialecticIV. Performance West and East: the freedom of failure V. Art on TV: the other Cold War divideEpilogue Index

Claudia Mesch is Associate Professor of Art History at the School of Art at Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona. She is the editor, with Viola Michely, of 'Joseph Beuys: The Reader' (I.B. Tauris, 2007) and is founding editor of the e-journal 'Surrealism and the Americas'. She writes on diverse topics in twentieth-century and contemporary art, especially postwar modernism, its ties to surrealism, and European intellectual history, and is working on a study of European intellectuals' and surrealism's preoccupation with Native American culture. She is a frequent contributor of art and film criticism to 'Sculpture', 'caa.reviews' and 'The Art Book'.

• TABLE OF CONTENTSList of Illustrations AcknowledgementsIntroduction I. Recuperating the Modern II. Marking the Postwar City III. Bonjour Monsieur Courbet: Realist painting and the defector dialecticIV. Performance West and East: the freedom of failure V. Art on TV: the other Cold War divideEpilogue Index