In 2016, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, Italy
mounted Postwar Era: A Recent History, Homage to Claire Falkenstein and currently, the Pasadena Museum of California Art organized the traveling retrospective, Beyond Sculpture, comprised of approximately seventy - five works, including sculptures, paintings, drawings, etchings, lithographs, jewelry, and watercolors, as well as large - scale photographs of her major public commissions.
Made between 1974 and 1976, and loosely based on Hans Magnus Enzensberger's 1976 essay «On the Inevitability of the Middle Class,» it consists of ten large - scale canvas -
mounted works on paper, reproduced here in foldout color plates, in which densely inscribed layers of figures, traceries, sigils and quotation derived from the pop culture of the
era narrate an epic vision of the scars and aspirations of
postwar Europe.