ArtBabble: Hanz Mack http://artbabble.org/artist/Hanz_Mack/feed en ART OF 2 GERMANYS Cold War Cultures http://artbabble.org/video/lacma/art-2-germanys-cold-war-cultures <div class="field field-type-nodereference field-field-institution"> <div class="field-label">Institution:&nbsp;</div> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <a href="/partner/los-angeles-county-museum-art">Los Angeles County Museum of Art</a> </div> </div> </div> <p>For East and West Germany during the Cold War, the creation of art and its reception and theorization were closely linked to their respective political systems: the Western liberal democracy of the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) and the Eastern communist dictatorship of the German Democratic Republic (GDR). Reacting against the legacy of Nazism, both Germanys revived pre-World War II national artistic traditions. Yet they developed distinctive versions of modern and postmodern art—at times in accord with their political cultures, at other times in opposition to them.</p> <p><a href="http://artbabble.org/video/lacma/art-2-germanys-cold-war-cultures" target="_blank">read more</a></p> http://artbabble.org/video/lacma/art-2-germanys-cold-war-cultures#comments 1945 1989 BCAM Broad Contemporary Art Museum Chocolate Lion Tower Cold War Communism Dieter Roth East and West Germany German Art German artists Hanz Mack Harun Farocki Hermann Glockner installation Los Angeles County Museum of Art Lutz Dammbeck Martin Kippenberg Modern Art Nazism Sybille Bergemann technology Via Lewandowsky World War II Contemporary Art European Art Place Politics Time Los Angeles County Museum of Art http://artbabble.org/sites/default/files/bvideos/c9/c9cf93960a740f3f/poster-image-01.jpg c9cf93960a740f3f Sat, 04 Apr 2009 01:34:27 +0000 JUN TIANGCO 1776 at http://artbabble.org