The old dream of social belonging and political sovereignty--the dream of nation--was fraught with anxiety and contradiction for many artists and intellectuals in the 1950s. On the one hand, memories of the Second World War remained vivid and the chauvinism that had enabled it threatened to return w[...]
"Don't start an art collective until you read this book." --Guerrilla Girls "Ever since Web 2.0 with its wikis, blogs and social networks the art of collaboration is back on the agenda. "Collectivism after Modernism" convincingly proves that art collectives did not stop after the proclaimed death of[...]