From a Nation Torn provides a powerful critique of art historys understanding of French modernism and the historical circumstances that shaped its production and reception. Within art history; the aesthetic practices and theories that emerged in France from the late 1940s into the 1960s are demarcated as postwar. Yet it was during these very decades that France fought a protracted series of wars to maintain its far-flung colonial empire. Given that French modernism was created during; rather than after; war; Hannah Feldman argues that its interpretation must incorporate the tumultuous "decades of decolonization"and their profound influence on visual and public culture. Focusing on the Algerian War of Independence (1954ndash;1962) and the historical continuities it presented with the experience of the Second World War; Feldman highlights decolonizations formative effects on art and related theories of representation; both political and aesthetic. Ultimately; From a Nation Torn constitutes a profound exploration of how certain populations and events are rendered invisible and their omission naturalized within histories of modernity.
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