"Painting, Politics, and the Struggle for the Ecole de Paris, 1944-1964" is the first book dedicated to the postwar or 'nouvelle' Ecole de Paris It challenges the customary relegation of the Ecole de Paris to the footnotes, not by arguing for some hitherto 'hidden' merit for the art and ideas associated with this school, but by establishing овгюо how and why the Ecole de Paris was a highly significant vehicle for artistic and political debate The book presents a sustained historical study of how this 'school' was constituted by the paintings of a diverse group of artists, by the combative field of art criticism, and by the curatorial policies of galleries and state exhibitions 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, the book traces the artists, exhibitions, and art critical debates that made the Ecole de Paris a zone of aesthetic and political conflict Through setting the Ecole de Paris into its artistic, social, and political context, Natalie Adamson demonstrates how it functioned as the defining force in French postwar art in its defense of the tradition of easel painting, as well as an international point of reference for the expansion of modernism In doing so, she presents a wholly new perspective on the vexed relationships between painting, politics, and national identity in France during the two decades following World War II.  Автор: Анна2009 г Твердый переплет, 330 стр ISBN 0754659283.