
Postwar Culture at Beinecke
What is Postwar Culture at Beinecke?
News and Past Events
Postwar Culture at Beinecke encompasses an extensive array of materials documenting artistic, literary, social, political, and philosophic developments in Europe and America between 1945 and 1989. Ranging from single pieces to entire archives and libraries of prominent figures of the period, these rich and disparate holdings converge to form a unique resource for exploring the work of creative individuals, movements, and transnational networks that reshaped cultural landscapes both “high” and “low” after the Second World War. Yet there are few guides that could help students, scholars, creative writers, and artists find their way through the maze of these holdings, diffuse and dispersed as they are. In order to be used, the underlying coherence of the collection must first be seen in its general contours.
The Postwar Culture Portal seeks to provide such orientation. Users will find guides to broad areas of strength in the collection, details about how to find and use specific holdings of print and archival material, and information on additional resources as well as activities of the affiliated Postwar Culture Working Group at Yale. We hope you will join us in exploring this new and still largely unexplored terrain.
Be modern, collectors, museums.
If you have old paintings, do not despair.
Retain your memories but détourn them so that they correspond with your era.
ASGER JORN
NOW ON VIEW AT BEINECKE
Can art really change the world?
What strategies and tactics are out there?
What challenges and controversies?
What happens to protest art when it ends up
in a place like Beinecke?
Find out more about what's on display
COME SEE THE SHOW
Evening Reception
Friday, September 29th, 5pm

![]() Constant and New Babylon | ![]() Henri Chopin and OU | ![]() Superstudio |
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![]() Pablo Echaurren | ![]() Guy Debord | ![]() Sarenco and Lotta Poetica |
![]() Asger Jorn | ![]() The Situationist Times | ![]() May 68 |
![]() Dutch Counterculture and Provo | ![]() CoBrA |