Assuming a plural conception of modernity and seeking to decentralize the Paris-New York axis, this research seminar presents a multifocal analysis of art in the transatlantic axis during the Cold War, through a keynote speech and the presentation of three doctoral projects.

The twentieth century was one of the most violent in documented history. The great European wars, colonialism and resistances to it, international political axes and multiple dictatorships, as well as the restructuring…