Resource: post: An Online Resource for Art and the History of Modernism in a Global Context, from MoMA

Resource: post, an online resource devoted to art and the history of modernism in a global context from The Museum of Modern Art.

With a primary focus on modern and contemporary art outside North America and Western Europe, this website features contributions by individuals and institutions from around the world and makes behind-the-scenes research at MoMA available to a broader public. Essays, interviews, travel research reports, artists’ commissions, archival materials, translated sources, and bibliographies reflect perspectives emerging from leading scholars and curators around the world. post is the public face of Contemporary and Modern Art Perspectives (C-MAP), the cross-departmental, internal research program at MoMA that fosters the multiyear study of art histories outside North America and Western Europe. There are currently three C-MAP research groups, focusing on Asia, Latin America, and Central and Eastern Europe.

Recent content on Central and Eastern European art includes but is not limited to:

The OHO Group, “Information,” and Global Conceptualism avant la lettre by Ksenya Gurshtein

Cold War Modern: Mid-century designer Raymond Loewy’s work in the US and the USSR by Juliet Kinchin and Alexandra Sankova

Species of Spaces in Eastern European and Latin American Experimental Art by Klara Kemp-Welch

Please have a look into the resources available on post, as they make excellent supplements to modern and contemporary art courses with a global focus.

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