Main entry:

Feldman, Hannah.

Title & Author:

From a nation torn : decolonizing art and representation in France, 1945-1962 / Hannah Feldman.

Publication:

Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 2014.

Description:

xvi, 317 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm.

Series:

Objects/Histories

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-304) and index.
Introduction: Notes on art during war and the potentialities of decolonial representation -- André Malraux and the image of the past as the future of the present -- Fragments; or, the ends of photography -- Fac̦ades; or, the space of silence -- Between resistance and refusal: the language of art and its publics -- Sonic youth, sonic space: Isidore Isou and the lettrist accoustics of deterritorialization -- La France Déchirée: the politics of representation and the spaces in between -- Reidentifications; or, seeing citizens being seen -- "The eye of history": photojournalism, protest, and the manifestation of 17 October 1961 -- Looking past the state of emergency: a coda.

Summary:

"From a Nation Torn provides a powerful critique of art history's understanding of French modernism and the historical circumstances that shaped its production and reception. Within art history, the aesthetic practices and theories that emerged in France from the late 1940s into the 1960s are demarcated as 'postwar.' Yet it was during these very decades that France fought a protracted series of wars to maintain its far-flung colonial empire. Given that French modernism was created during, rather than after, war, Hannah Feldman argues that its interpretation must incorporate the tumultuous 'decades of decolonization' and their profound influence on visual and public culture. Focusing on the Algerian War of Independence (1954-1962) and the historical continuities it presented with the experience of the Second World War, Feldman highlights decolonization's formative effects on art and related theories of representation, both political and aesthetic."--Back cover.

Resources:
Table of contents
Book review (H-Net)

ISBN:

9780822353560 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0822353563 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780822353713 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0822353717 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Art Political aspects France History 20th century.
Art and state France History 20th century.
Decolonization Social aspects France History 20th century.
Art Aspect politique France Histoire 20e siècle.
Art Politique gouvernementale France Histoire 20e siècle.
Décolonisation Aspect social France Histoire 20e siècle.
Art and Design.
Art and state.
Art Political aspects.
Decolonization Social aspects.
Entkolonialisierung
Kunst
France.
Frankreich

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Objects/histories.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 286741
Call No.: BIB 227212
Notes: pbk.
Status: Available