art and the avant-garde in Eastern Europe, 1945-1989 /
Piotr Piotrowski ; translated by Anna Brzyski.
London :
Reaktion,
2009.
487 pages :
illustrations, portraits ;
25 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The geography and history of art in Eastern Europe -- Behind the Iron Curtain before 1948. The Surrealist interregnum, 1945-8 -- Modernism and totalitarianism. The 'thaw' and Art informel ; Myths of geometry ; Un-socialist realism ; The critique of painting : towards the neo-avant-garde -- The neo-avant-garde and 'real socialism' in the 1970's. Mapping the neo-avant-garde, c.1970 ; Conceptual art between theory of art and critique of the system ; The politics of identity : male and female body art -- Epilogue : the spectres haunting Europe in the 1980's.
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A comprehensive study of art and politics in Eastern Europe between the end of World War II and the fall of Communism, this title brings together a wide range of issues, including artistic problems, movements, attitudes, and kinds of expression, and compares and describes them to create a new art map of the region.
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