5. Oktober 2007 – 7. Januar 2008

Be-Bomb: the Transatlantic War of Images and all that Jazz. 1946-1956

Be-Bomb: the Transatlantic War of Images and all that Jazz. 1946-1956 analyses the aesthetic quarrels of the period between 1946 and 1956, the time when New York replaced Paris as the nerve centre of modern art. Curated by the French historian Serge Guilbaut, the exhibition sets out to compare and contrast the art produced in France and the USA in those years in order to understand how and why some works became, if only for a short time in each country, cultural icons that contained fabulous but limited symbolic powers and then turned into media signs that could be commercialised with great success.

The show will also be studying the reasons why the popular icons of one culture were not recognised by the other at that particular moment. After the victory of American abstract expressionism, the American critics despised French artistic production because they regarded it as pointless and meaningless. Faced with the imposing presence of the victorious movement of abstract expressionism, the French art scene, in its fragmented wealth, seemed incapable of projecting a single voice or direction for the future, as Paris had done in the past.

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MACBA - Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona
Plaça dels Àngels, 1
08001 Barcelona
Fon +34 93 412 08 10
http://www.macba.es/

Öffnungszeiten

25 September-23 June
Monday-Friday, 11 a.m. - 7.30 p.m.
Saturday 10 a.m. - 8 p.m.
Sunday, Holidays 10 a.m. - 3 p.m.
Closed on Tuesday

24 June - 24 September
Monday-Friday 11 a.m. - 8 p.m.
Saturday 10 a.m. - 8 p.m.
Sunday, Holidays 10 a.m. - 3 p.m.
Closed on Tuesday

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