The Threshold of the West? Danish Cobra Artists Exhibited at Westkunst and behind the Iron Curtain, 1948–1988
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Disputes, Boundary Frontier troubles Borders Frontiers (Boundaries) Geographic boundaries Boundary disputes Territorial boundaries Political boundaries Hours (Time) Proof Council of Europe countries Western art (Western countries) Fine arts Iconography Arts, Fine Art, Occidental Arts, Visual Visual arts Occidental art Art, Visual Art, Western (Western countries) ArtsCiter ce document
Kristian Handberg, « The Threshold of the West? Danish Cobra Artists Exhibited at Westkunst and behind the Iron Curtain, 1948–1988 », Éditions de la Maison des sciences de l’homme
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A collective of artists from Copenhagen, Amsterdam, Brussels, and beyond, the short-lived Cobra group, wanted from the very start (1948) to create an alternative Western art (or ‘West-art’). Its activities raised essential questions about the new connections and hard borders in postwar Europe. Also from the start, the group’s mode of exhibition tended toward political activism, often in accordance with geopolitical agendas. This was clearly in evidence at the time of the Westkunst exhibition in...
