From the Book - English edition.
Patron's statement / Dr. Frank-Walter Steinmeier
Bavarian state minister's statement / Dr. Ludwig Spaenle
Prefaces / Johannes Ebert, Hortensia Völcker, Alexander Farenholtz
Director's foreword / Okwui Enwezor
Curators' acknowledgments / Okwui Enwezor, Katy Siegel, Ulrich Wilmes
Introductory essays : The judgment of art: postwar and artistic worldliness / Okwui Enwezor ; Art, world, history / Katy Siegel ; Postwar: denazification and reeducation / Ulrich Wilmes ; Postwar: the melancholy history of a term / Mark Mazower ; Legacies of Bandung: decolonization and the politics of culture / Dipesh Chakrabarty
Visual essays and chronologies : Visual essay: social and political events ; Chronology of social and political events ; Visual essay: arts and culture ; Chronology of arts and culture / compiled by Damian Lentini and Daniel Milnes
Exhibition sections. 1. Aftermath: zero hour and the atomic era : Section introduction ; Imagining a city through photography / Yasufumi Nakamori ; "Forms disintegrate": painting in the shadow of the bomb / Stephen Petersen ; The natural history of rape / Ariella Azoulay
2. Form matters : Section introduction ; The dirt paradigm / Emily Braun ; When identity becomes "form": calligraphic abstraction and Sudanese modernism / Salah M. Hassan ; Material facture / Geeta Kapur ; 0 to 1 / Richard Shiff ; Abstraction and ideology: contestation in Cold War art criticism / Terry Smith
3. New images of man : Section introduction ; Germany's postwar search for a new image of man / Yule Heibel ; New images of man: postwar humanism and its challenges in the West / Sarah Wilson ; Remembering Fanon: self, psyche, and the colonial condition / Homi K. Bhabha
4. Realisms : Section introduction ; Whatever happened to realism after 1945?: figuration and politics in the Western hemisphere / Alejandro Anreus ; Commitment to humility / Ekaterina Degot ; Exchangeable realism / Anneka Lenssen ; The historical logic of Chinese Nationalist realism from the 1940s to the 1960s / Gao Minglu ; Realism as international style / Nikolas Drosos and Romy Golan
5. Concrete visions : Section introduction ; Out of words: the spacetime of concrete poetry / Pedro Erber ; Simultaneous abstractions and postwar Latin American art / Andrea Giunta ; The necessity of concreteness: a view from the (global?) south / Mari Carmen Ramirez
6. Cosmopolitan modernisms : Section introduction ; Baghdad modernism / Zainab Bahrani ; Plural modernities: a history of a cosmopolitan modernity / Catherine Grenier ; Exiles, émigrés and cosmopolitans: London's postwar art world / Courtney J. Martin ; The Black cosmopolitans / Tobias Wofford ; Cosmopolitan contaminations: artists, objects, media / Damian Lentini
7. Nations seeking form : Section introduction ; Channels for democratic iteration / Galia Bar Or ; After Bandung: transacting the nation in a postcolonial world / Atreyee Gupta ; Fanon, national culture, and the politics of form in postwar Africa / Chika Okeke-Agulu
8. Networks, media & communication : Section introduction ; Art in the network of technological media and mass communication: new tendencies / Ješa Denegri ; True grid / Walter Grasskamp ; Reframing the Independent Group / Anne Massey ; The cybernetic vision in postwar art / Pamela M. Lee and Fred Turner.
