Contribution in an anthology

Appeared in: Transmission des valeurs nationales: théories, individus, institutions (domaine anglo-américain)

Editor list: Karsky, B; Rossignol, MJ

Publication year: 2000

Pages: 171-196

ISBN: 9782902937288

URL: https://www.persee.fr/doc/cchav_0184-1025_2000_num_28_1_1259

Title of series: Cahiers Charles V

Number in series: 28

Abstract: 

The common interpretation of abstract expressionism dismisses mutual artistic interests as a decisive dynamic of intercultural understanding. However, the use by official agencies of contemporary painting as an instrument of US cultural foreign policy proved a failure in the late 1940s. In the following years, private artistic institutions promoted American art through European exhibitions stressing displays of individualism and pluralism in which abstract expressionism played a minor role. Yet Europeans developed a marked interest in this movement alone. American abstract expressionism shows travelling in Europe in the late 1950s were highly successful and testified to increased transatlantic cooperation as well as to the "triumph" of this movement in the Western art community.

Harvard Citation style: Ruby, S. (2000) The Give and Take of American Painting in Postwar Western Europe, in Karsky, B. and Rossignol, M. (eds.) Transmission des valeurs nationales: théories, individus, institutions (domaine anglo-américain). Paris: Inst. d'Anglais Charles V, pp. 171-196. https://www.persee.fr/doc/cchav_0184-1025_2000_num_28_1_1259

APA Citation style: Ruby, S. (2000). The Give and Take of American Painting in Postwar Western Europe. In Karsky, B., & Rossignol, M. (Eds.), Transmission des valeurs nationales: théories, individus, institutions (domaine anglo-américain) (pp. 171-196). Inst. d'Anglais Charles V. https://www.persee.fr/doc/cchav_0184-1025_2000_num_28_1_1259