The project "European writing on American art during the Cold War era" was a special research and translation initiative, led by the editors of Art in Translation between 2015-2020. It was generously funded by the Terra Foundation for American Art and involved the collaboration with many international advisors, authors, and translators.
The main outcome of this project is the extensive two-volume anthology Hot Art, Cold War-Western and Northern European Writing on American Art 1945-1990, and Hot Art, Cold War-Southern and Eastern European Writing on American Art 1995-1990 edited by Claudia Hopkins and Iain Boyd Whyte (New York: Routledge, 2020). Focusing on the reception of US art in non-English language writings by art historians, philosophers, art critics and artists in Europe between ca. 1945-1990, the companion volumes include over 200 primary sources on US art, translated into English, and augmented by scholarly introductions.
A review by John J. Curley was published in the French journal Critique d'art in November 2021. You can read the full review here Curley_ critique dart
