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In 1955 Germany committed to a large international contemporary art exhibition titled documenta, curated by Arnold Bode, hoping to initiate a new form of communication and exchange with the international community.
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In 1955 Germany committed to a large international contemporary art exhibition titled documenta, curated by Arnold Bode, hoping to initiate a new form of communication and exchange with the international community.
Living in the Imagination of the World: Treme , Cultural Diplomacy and the International Exhibition Linda Constant 2010
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Thomas Lohnes/AFP/Getty Images Mr. Ai, with his installation 'Template,' made out of the doors and windows of destroyed houses of the Ming and Quing dynasty, on June 13, 2007, at the documenta 12 art fair in Kassel, Germany.
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Lo documenta Hamid Tehrani, autore di Global Voices (inglese) in un servizio accurato e ben fatto sul sito della rete di giornalismo partecipativo – [...] 20 July 2009, 9: 42 am gihane
Global Voices in English » Iran: Protests prompt emergence of underground Internet newspapers 2009
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Germany succeeded in joining the rest of the European avant-garde by publicly engaging with an exhibition that was extremely current for its time -- and very well received, considering that more than 130,000 visitors attended the first documenta.
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Germany desperately needed to discover new channels of outreach and discourse to balance the reproach it was now, obviously, on the receiving end of. documenta gave the German public an opportunity to view modernist art previously banned in the country, as well as the chance to participate in the European avant-garde that had been sweeping the rest of the continent even before the war.
Living in the Imagination of the World: Treme , Cultural Diplomacy and the International Exhibition Linda Constant 2010
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Germany desperately needed to discover new channels of outreach and discourse to balance the reproach it was now, obviously, on the receiving end of. documenta gave the German public an opportunity to view modernist art previously banned in the country, as well as the chance to participate in the European avant-garde that had been sweeping the rest of the continent even before the war.
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Germany succeeded in joining the rest of the European avant-garde by publicly engaging with an exhibition that was extremely current for its time -- and very well received, considering that more than 130,000 visitors attended the first documenta.
Living in the Imagination of the World: Treme , Cultural Diplomacy and the International Exhibition Linda Constant 2010
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The art world continues to welcome documenta as a highly relevant and discursive exhibition, and Germany surely reaps the cultural and social benefits to having hosted this event since 1955.
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This exhibition, which now takes place every five years in Kassel, aided in the cultural regeneration of postwar Germany -- in effect, Germany offered a new cultural dialogue with the international community via documenta and was thus able to begin moving forward from its tumultuous, repressive and shameful past.
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