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- Title
MoMA Goes beyond the Iron Curtain: The Eastern European Tour of The Prints of Andy Warhol.
- Authors
Sidorova, Elena
- Abstract
In 1990, three years after Andy Warhol's death and one year after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) organized the first one-man show of this pop artist in Eastern Europe. The Prints of Andy Warhol, although never shown at the MoMA in New York, traveled to the Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain in Jouy-en-Josas, France, the Národní Galerie in Prague, Czechoslovakia, the Staatliche Kunstsammlung in Dresden, the GDR, the Mücsarnok in Budapest, Hungary, and the Muzeum Narodowe in Warsaw, Poland. The current paper analyzes the cultural–political context of The Prints of Andy Warhol. It first discusses the place of both American pop art and Eastern Europe in MoMA's International Program (IP) and then explores the organizational challenges, art historical contents, and public reception of the exhibition. The paper concludes by examining the broader impact of The Prints of Andy Warhol on both the growing awareness of American pop art in Eastern Europe and MoMA's cultural diplomacy in this region after the fall of the Iron Curtain.
- Subjects
EASTERN Europe; MUSEUM of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.); POP art; AMERICAN art; CULTURAL diplomacy; PUBLIC art; ART museums; COLD War, 1945-1991
- Publication
Arts (2076-0752), 2024, Vol 13, Issue 2, p42
- ISSN
2076-0752
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/arts13020042