{"product_id":"a-conspiracy-of-images-john-j-curley-9780300188431","title":"A Conspiracy of Images: Andy Warhol, Gerhard Richter, and the Art of the Cold War","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn important new look at Cold War art on both sides of the Atlantic\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In October 1962, a set of blurred surveillance photographs brought the world to the brink of nuclear apocalypse during the Cuban missile crisis. The pictures themselves demonstrated little, and explanatory captions were necessary to identify the danger for the public. In the following months, two artists with antithetical backgrounds arrived at a similar aesthetic: Andy Warhol, who began his career as a commercial artist in New York City, turned to the silkscreened replication of violent photographs. Gerhard Richter, who began as a mural painter in socialist Dresden, East Germany, painted blurred versions of personal and media photographs. In \u003ci\u003eA Conspiracy of Images\u003c\/i\u003e, author John J. Curley explores how the artists' developing aesthetic approaches were informed by the political agency and ambiguity of images produced during the Cold War, particularly those disseminated by the mass media on both sides. As the first scholarly consideration of the visual conditions of the Cold War, \u003ci\u003eA Conspiracy of Images\u003c\/i\u003e provides a new and compelling transatlantic model for Cold War art history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e John J. Curley\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0300188439\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780300188431\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Yale University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/03\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 296\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.30h x 8.30w x 1.10d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2014 pg. 241","brand":"John J. Curley","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44311015522559,"sku":"9780300188431","price":72.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_fb123855-9f1a-4875-9bcd-c8a3d3511fd7.jpg?v=1695720649","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-conspiracy-of-images-john-j-curley-9780300188431","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}