TY - BOOK ID - 69767952 TI - A conspiracy of images : Andy Warhol, Gerhard Richter and the art of the cold war PY - 2013 SN - 9780300188431 0300188439 PB - New Haven : Yale university press, DB - UniCat KW - Art, Modern KW - Art and society KW - Cold War KW - Themes, motives KW - History KW - Influence KW - Subjects KW - Warhol, Andy, KW - Richter, Gerhard, KW - Richter, Gerd, KW - Rihitā, Geruharuto, KW - Lixite, Gehede, KW - ריכטר, גרהרד, KW - Warhola, Andrew, KW - Warhol, Andrew, KW - Varchola, Andrej, KW - וורהול, אנדי, KW - Criticism and interpretation. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:69767952 AB - "In October 1962, a set of blurred surveillance photographs brought the world to the brink of nuclear apocalypse during the Cuban missile crisis. The pictures themselves demonstrated little, and explanatory captions were necessary to identify the danger for the public. In the following months, two artists with antithetical backgrounds arrived at a similar aesthetic: Andy Warhol, who began his career as a commercial artist in New York City, turned to the silkscreened replication of violent photographs. Gerhard Richter, who began as a mural painter in socialist Dresden, East Germany, painted blurred versions of personal and media photographs. In A Conspiracy of Images, author John J. Curley explores how the artists' developing aesthetic approaches were informed by the political agency and ambiguity of images produced during the Cold War, particularly those disseminated by the mass media on both sides."-- ER -