1 Creaturely Cobra

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations ix
4. Preface xv
5. Introduction 1
6. Part I EUROPE IN TRANSITION
7. 1 Creaturely Cobra 19
8. 2 Decolonizing Modernism/s 35
9. Part II THE SOVIET BLOC AND COMMUNIST CHINA
10. 3 Soviet Art before and after the Thaw 65
11. 4 Rent Collection Courtyard, the “Atomic Bomb of the Art World” 79
12. Part III PACIFIC PASSAGES, ATLANTIC OSCILLATIONS
13. 5 Godzilla’s Schizophrenia 99
14. 6 The Work of Salvage 119
15. 7 “The Eternal Modernity of the Church” 135
16. 8 Antipodean Vision 155
17. 9 Integración plástica 173
18. 10 Ancient Modernisms 195
19. Part IV DECOLONIZING CONSTELLATIONS
20. 11 Postwar Abstraction 215
21. 12 Enemy of the People 237
22. 13 Decolonization and Calligraphic Abstraction 253
23. 14 Postwar Imaginings 277
24. Bibliography 295
25. Contributors 321
26. Index 323