"Hot Art, Cold War – Western and Northern European Writing on American Art 1945-1990" & "Hot Art, Cold War-Southern and Eastern European Writing on American Art 1945-1990"
- Submitting institution
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University of Edinburgh
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 189186957
- Type
- T - Other
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- Location
- Routledge: London
- Brief description of type
- Short items
- Open access status
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- Month
- September
- Year
- 2020
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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1
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- The output consists of 2 volumes co-edited by Hopkins and Whyte and a sole-authored essay by Hopkins. Hopkins and Whyte also co-authored the 2 Introductions to the volumes (7050 words total). The two volumes are text anthologies of 243 texts in total, translated into English from 25 languages, that trace the pan-European reception of American art during the Cold War era through primary sources. The 243 translated texts are complemented by 26 essays written by specialists. The project begun in 2015 and finished in 2020. Phase I consisted in researching and sourcing primary texts and in commissioning the contextual essays; phase II focused on selecting and translating source texts and on editing the material. Volume 1 was published in September 2020, volume 2 was published in December 2020.
Hopkins’ essay, “Bienvenido! Welcoming American Art in Spain 1950s–1963” (6100 words) is one of two contextualising essays in the Spanish section of the book (vol. 2). This essay, based on a close reading of archival materials, rejects the well-worn concept of a ‘triumph’ of American art in Europe, and presents an account of the meanings and uses of US art in Francoist Spain from c. 1950 to 1963.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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