A Conspiracy of Images: Andy Warhol, Gerhard Richter, and the Art of the Cold War

An important new look at Cold War art on both sides of the Atlantic

In October 1962, a set of blurred surveillance photographs brought the world to the brink of nuclear apocalypse during the Cuban missile crisis. The pictures themselves demonstrated little, and explanatory captions were necessary to identify the danger for the public. In the following months, two artists with antithetical backgrounds arrived at a similar aesthetic: Andy Warhol, who began his career as a commercial artist in...