Fault Lines

Art In Germany 1945–1955

John-Paul Stonard

The story of German post-World War II art usually begins in the 1960s. But as John-Paul Stonard’s exhaustively researched Fault Lines makes clear, the typically overlooked decade following the war’s end was the key to the richness of the German art that’s been produced ever since. Drawing on a broad range of archival and visual sources, Fault Lines examines the circumstances of destruction, defeat and division in the post-war decade, and the role played by artists during the period of reconstruction and occupation. An new and insightful look into a pivotal period in German history, and the influences that shaped contemporary German art.

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FEATURE RECONSTRUCTION

Shezad Dawood

London-based artist Shezad Dawood uses this book to expound upon his film, Feature, which deconstructs the iconography and mythology of the classic Hollywood western by presenting a series of live performances that were linked by the Battle of Big Horn narrative. “My family’s originally from India and Pakistan, I was born in London in Hammersmith and I’ve lived in various cities and countries,” Dawood has explained. This work is “a meeting ground of the myth of the American West and Islamic mysticism, looking at the way that both mythologies began in the desert.” This book guarantees you’ll never watch a John Wayne western the same way again.

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