Closer Than Fiction: American Visual Worlds Around 1970 / Amerikanische Bildwelten um 1970

Hyper Real Reader. Even more so than Pop Art, photorealist painting and sculpture effectively represents the typically American element in Western postwar art.While subsequently exerting a broad influence throughout the international art scene, this element was at the same time heavily criticized immediately after its emergence, precisely from a European perspective. This publication places American visual worlds around 1970 in a comprehensive cultural and art historical context.The exhibition features the work of artists as diverse as Andy Warhol, Cindy Sherman, Jeff Koons, Martha Rosler, Jeff Wall, Christo, and Thomas Demand