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Introduction: How Relevant is the Term ‘Postwar Art’? Introduction: How Relevant is the Term ‘Postwar Art’?
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Postwar Postwar
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Design Design
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Painting and Sculpture Painting and Sculpture
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After the 1970s After the 1970s
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Postmodernism Postmodernism
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Back to Architecture Back to Architecture
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Further Reading Further Reading
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30 Postwar Art, Architecture, and Design
Get accessStefan Muthesius is an art historian, specialising in the history of architecture and design of the last 200 years in Europe and North America. He taught at the School of World Art Studies at the University of East Anglia in Norwich. His last book is The Poetic Home: Designing the 19th Century Domestic Interior (2009); earlier books include The Postwar University: Utopianist College and Campus (2000), An Introduction to Art, Architecture and Design in Poland (1994) and The English Terraced House (1984).
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Published:18 September 2012
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Abstract
There is no doubt that planners, architects, and designers, or anybody involved with creating works addressed to the public, would have testified to the overwhelming importance of a comprehensive sense of a new postwar world, most definitely for the first twenty years after 1945. It was a period that followed what appeared as the ‘zero hour’, marking the end of the most terrible war in history. There was a sense of a new beginning that aimed at ‘making good’ what the war had destroyed and pacifying the evils of dictatorship. But not only that; the ‘reformers’ aimed higher, at creating a world which was ‘better’ than any known before, and even the pre-war years in those countries that had not been under a dictatorship, such as Britain, were held to have been gravely deficient. Almost all other countries also took part in this ‘renewal’, chiefly under the banner of ‘modernity’. This article examines art, architecture, and design in Europe during the postwar period, looking at painting and sculpture as well as postmodernism.
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