目錄 |
| List of Figures and Tables | ix |
| Acknowledgments | xi |
| Introduction: From the "Fall of Paris" to the "Invasion of New York" | 1 |
| A Geopolitical Analysis of Western Art Worlds | 2 |
| A Story of Risings and Fallings | 7 |
1. | "Art ... a language that should unite": The Diversity of the Postwar Art Worlds | 13 |
| Rebuilding, Re-educating, and Redefining Germany | 14 |
| Engaging Italy in the World | 21 |
| Preserving the Image of la Belle France in an Informe World | 27 |
| Reinserting Belgium into the Grand Movement of International Art | 32 |
| Asserting the Individuality of American Art | 38 |
| Conclusion | 44 |
2. | Vehemences Confrontees: The Limits of Postwar Artistic Exchanges | 53 |
| Franco-German Reconciliation | 54 |
| The American Presence in France | 58 |
| The Limits of U.S. Influence in West Germany | 63 |
| The American Fascination with Italy | 68 |
| The Emergence of a New European Network | 72 |
| Conclusion | 78 |
3. | "We will always have Paris": The Domination of Paris in the 1950s | 85 |
| The Lasting Prestige of the Parisian Artists | 85 |
| Paris and the Art Boom | 91 |
| The Weaknesses of the Parisian Market | 96 |
| Poverty of the Visual Arts in France | 100 |
| The Choice of the Past | 103 |
| Conclusion | 106 |
4. | "The future is in New York": The Strength of the U.S. Art Worlds in the Late 1950s | 113 |
| The Success of American Museums | 113 |
| American-Type Collectors | 117 |
| The Mass-Mediatization of Art | 121 |
| Selling Contemporary (American) Art | 127 |
| Exporting American Art | 135 |
| Conclusion | 142 |
5. | This Is Tomorrow: The Triumph of the American Way in the 1960s | 151 |
| The Kennedy Slide and the Collapse of the Parisian Market | 151 |
| The Rise of American Pop Art | 158 |
| Pop Whaams Through Europe | 164 |
| The Sidelining of Paris in the New Cultural Environment | 168 |
| The Triumph of American (Pop) Art | 175 |
| Conclusion | 182 |
6. | I Like America and America Likes Me: The European Domination of American Art in the 1970s | 189 |
| The European Enactment of the American Domination | 190 |
| The Active European Promotion of the Newest American Trends | 195 |
| The Slow Collapse of the American Support System | 202 |
| The Continuous Support of American Art in Europe | 208 |
| American Art's Dependence on Europe | 216 |
| Conclusion | 220 |
7. | A New Spirit in Painting: The European Comeback of the 1980s | 229 |
| The Reconstruction of the Western European Art Worlds | 231 |
| In the Shadow of American Art | 237 |
| Repackaging Contemporary European Art | 245 |
| The Germans Invade New York | 253 |
| The End of the Universal, Modernist Model | 264 |
| Conclusion | 269 |
| Epilogue: Consequences of the European Comeback | 277 |
| The Incorporation of European Artists into the Canon | 277 |
| The Repositioning of Europe in the Contemporary Art Worlds | 280 |
| The Transformation of the Western Art Worlds | 285 |
| Annotated Index of People and Institutions | 289 |