Okwui Enwezor and Atreyee Gupta, editors

List of Illustrations xi
Preface / Atreyee Gupta xvii
Introduction / Atreyee Gupta 1
Part I. Europe in Transition
1. Creaturely Cobra / Hal Foster 19
1. Decolonizing Modernism/s: Transversal Histories and the Slade School of Fine Art / Ming Tiampo 35
Part II. The Soviet Bloc and Communist China
3. Soviet Art before and after the Thaw / Boris Groys 65
4. Rent Collection Courtyard, the “Atomic Bomb of the Art World” / Vivian Li 79
Part III. Pacific Passages, Atlantic Oscillations
5. Godzilla’s Schizophrenia: Americanization and Amnesia in Postwar Japan / Alexandra Munroe 99
6. The Work of Salvage: Jess, Allegory, and the Atomic Bomb / Tara McDowell 119
7. “The Eternal Modernity of the Church”: Art in the Sugar Mill and the University in the Philippines / Patrick Flores 135
8. Antipodean Vision: Postwar Arts in Australia and the South Pacific / Terry Smith 155
9. Integración plástica: The Postwar Synthesis of the Arts as Seen from Mexico in 1952 / Jennifer Josten 173
10. Ancient Modernisms: Illegibility, Women, and 1950s Weaving / Jenni Sorkin 195
Part IV: Decolonizing Constellations
11. Postwar Abstraction: Similarities, Differences, and Other Ophthalmologic Conundrums / Atreyee Gupta 215
12. Enemy of the People: Jewad Selim and the Baghdad Group for Modern Art / Nada Shabout 237
13. Decolonization and Calligraphic Abstraction / Iftikhar Dadi 253
14. Postwar Imaginings: Négritude Legacies and Thwarted Universalisms in Dakar and Paris / Elizabeth Harney 277
Bibliography 295
Contributors 321
Index