Central And Eastern European Art

Author : Maja Fowkes,Reuben Fowkes
Publisher : Thames and Hudson Limited
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-27
Category : Art
ISBN : 0500775346

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Central and Eastern European Art by Maja Fowkes,Reuben Fowkes Pdf

In this path-breaking new history, Maja and Reuben Fowkes introduce outstanding artworks and major figures from across central and eastern Europe to reveal the movements, theories and styles that have shaped artistic practice since 1950. They emphasize the particularly rich and varied art scenes of Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Yugoslavia, extending their gaze at intervals to East Germany, Romania, the Baltic states and the rest of the Balkans. While politics in the region have been marked by unstable geography and dramatic transitions, artists have forged a path of persistent experiment and innovation. This generously illustrated overview explores the richness of their singular contribution to recent art history. Tracing art-historical changes from the short-lived unison of the socialist realist period to the incredible diversity of art in the post-communist era, the authors examine the repercussions of political events on artistic life notably the uprisings in Hungary and Czechoslovakia, the Solidarity movement in Poland, and the collapse of the communist bloc. But their primary interest is in the experimental art of the neo-avant-garde that resisted official agendas and engaged with global currents such as performance art, video, multimedia and net art.

Author : Maja Fowkes,Reuben Fowkes
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-14
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780500775356

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Central and Eastern European Art Since 1950 (World of Art) by Maja Fowkes,Reuben Fowkes Pdf

A groundbreaking introduction to the contemporary art of central and Eastern Europe, this wide-ranging study explores painting, sculpture, photography, performance, and conceptual work. In this pathbreaking new history, Maja and Reuben Fowkes introduce outstanding artworks and major figures from across central and Eastern Europe to reveal the movements, theories, and styles that have shaped artistic practice since 1950. They emphasize the particularly rich and varied art scenes of Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Yugoslavia, extending their gaze at intervals to East Germany, Romania, the Baltic states, and the rest of the Balkans. This generously illustrated overview explores the richness of this region’s artists’ singular contribution to recent art history. Tracing art-historical changes from 1950 to now, the authors examine the repercussions of political events on artistic life—notably the uprisings in Hungary and Czechoslovakia, the Solidarity movement in Poland, and the collapse of the communist bloc. But their primary interest is in the experimental art of the neo-avant-garde that resisted official agendas and engaged with global currents such as performance art, video, multimedia, and net art. Central and Eastern European Art Since 1950 is a comprehensive, transnational survey of the major movements of art from this region.

Author : Beáta Hock,Anu Allas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351187176

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Globalizing East European Art Histories by Beáta Hock,Anu Allas Pdf

This edited collection reassesses East-Central European art by offering transnational perspectives on its regional or national histories, while also inserting the region into contemporary discussions of global issues. Both in popular imagination and, to some degree, scholarly literature, East-Central Europe is persistently imagined as a hermetically isolated cultural landscape. This book restores the diverse ways in which East-Central European art has always been entangled with actors and institutions in the wider world. The contributors engage with empirically anchored and theoretically argued case studies from historical periods representing notable junctures of globalization: the early modern period, the age of Empires, the time of socialist rule and the global Cold War, and the most recent decades of postsocialism understood as a global condition.

Author : Laura J. Hoptman,Tomáš Pospiszyl
Publisher : The Museum of Modern Art
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0262083132

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Primary Documents by Laura J. Hoptman,Tomáš Pospiszyl Pdf

This text presents documents drawn from the artistic archives of Eastern and Central Europe during the second half of the 20th century.

Author : Shona Kallestrup,Magdalena Kunińska,Mihnea Alexandru Mihail,Anna Adashinskaya,Cosmin Minea
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2022-06-07
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000602074

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Periodization in the Art Historiographies of Central and Eastern Europe by Shona Kallestrup,Magdalena Kunińska,Mihnea Alexandru Mihail,Anna Adashinskaya,Cosmin Minea Pdf

This volume critically investigates how art historians writing about Central and Eastern Europe in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries engaged with periodization. At the heart of much of their writing lay the ideological project of nation-building. Hence discourses around periodization – such as the mythicizing of certain periods, the invention of historical continuity and the assertion of national specificity – contributed strongly to identity construction. Central to the book’s approach is a transnational exploration of how the art histories of the region not only interacted with established Western periodizations but also resonated and ‘entangled’ with each other. In their efforts to develop more sympathetic frameworks that refined, ignored or hybridized Western models, they sought to overcome the centre–periphery paradigm which equated distance from the centre with temporal belatedness and artistic backwardness. The book thus demonstrates that the concept of periodization is far from neutral or strictly descriptive, and that its use in art history needs to be reconsidered. Bringing together a broad range of scholars from different European institutions, the volume offers a unique new perspective on Central and Eastern European art historiography. It will be of interest to scholars working in art history, historiography and European studies.

Author : Jeremy Howard
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Art
ISBN : 0192842242

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East European Art, 1650-1950 by Jeremy Howard Pdf

Written by leading scholars at the forefront of new thinking, many of whom are rising stars in their fields, the Oxford History of Art series offers substantial and innovative texts that clarify, illuminate, and debate the critical issues at the heart of art history today. This groundbreaking series makes use of new research and methodologies, as well as newly accessible and non-canonical works, to offer comprehensive coverage of the art world. Lavishly illustrated and superbly designed, the Oxford History of Art brings new substance and verve to the exciting and ubiquitous world of art. The latest addition to the series is a pioneering overview of the visual cultures of Eastern Europe in the modern age. Here, art historian Jeremy Howard challenges traditional definitions of what constitutes "European" art and embraces the whole spectrum of art creation, including painting, sculpture, architecture, the applied arts, photography, and performance. Avoiding conventional art historical divisions, Howard focuses on the many hidden relationships between the different art forms and artistic cultures that flourished in the vast region known as Eastern Europe, and how these cultures inter-related with the wider world. In addition to the rise and fall of the two great art academies in Vienna and St. Petersburg, Howard examines the blending of migratory and sedentary cultures in the region, the role of women, and the political manipulation of the image. He brings to the fore many overlooked artists and concentrates on neglected elements of work by better-known figures. Throughout, he reveals how the Habsburg, Romanov, and Ottoman empires vied with one another through art and how individuals and nations strove to maintain and realize their voice through visual language. Bringing light to a woefully neglected subject, Howard has produced a work that will prove essential reading for lovers of art history and Eastern European culture.

Author : Ana Janevski,Roxana Marcoci,Ksenia Nouril
Publisher : Moma Primary Documents
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Art
ISBN : 1633450643

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Art and Theory of Post-1989 Central and Eastern Europe by Ana Janevski,Roxana Marcoci,Ksenia Nouril Pdf

This latest volume of MoMA's Primary Documents reflects on the effects that communism's disintegration across Central and Eastern Europe--including the Soviet Union's fifteen republics--had on the art practices, criticism, and cultural production of the following decades.

Author : Amy Bryzgel
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781526115614

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Performance art in Eastern Europe since 1960 by Amy Bryzgel Pdf

This volume presents the first comprehensive academic study of the history and development of performance art in the former communist countries of Central, Eastern and South Eastern Europe since the 1960s. Covering 21 countries and more than 250 artists, this text demonstrates the manner in which performance art in the region developed concurrently with the genre in the West, highlighting the unique contributions of Eastern European artists. The discussions are based on primary source material-interviews with the artists themselves. It offers a comparative study of the genre of performance art in countries and cities across the region, examining the manner in which artists addressed issues such as the body, gender, politics and identity, and institutional critique.

Author : Julia Allerstorfer,Karolina Majewska-Güde,Monika Leisch-Kiesl
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-31
Category : Art
ISBN : 9783839473634

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East Central European Art Histories and Austria by Julia Allerstorfer,Karolina Majewska-Güde,Monika Leisch-Kiesl Pdf

The specific role of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the later nation of Austria within the formation of regional art histories in East Central Europe has received little attention in art historical research so far. Taking into account the era of the Dual Monarchy as well as the period after 1989, the contributions analyze and critically scrutinize the imperial legacies, transnational transfer processes and cultural hierarchies in art historiographies, artistic practices and institutional histories. Consisting of 17 texts, with new commissions and one reprint, case studies, monographic essays and interviews grouped thematically into two sections, the anthology proposes a pluriversal narrative on regional, cultural and political contexts.

Author : Kumu kunstimuuseum. Sügiskonverents,Kumu kunstimuuseum (Tallinn, Estonia),Eesti Kunstimuuseum (1989- )
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Art, European
ISBN : 9985999908

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Different modernisms, different avant-gardes by Kumu kunstimuuseum. Sügiskonverents,Kumu kunstimuuseum (Tallinn, Estonia),Eesti Kunstimuuseum (1989- ) Pdf

Author : Emese Kürti,Zsuzsa László
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 9783839458235

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What Will Be Already Exists by Emese Kürti,Zsuzsa László Pdf

How do artist archives survive and stay authentic in radically changed contexts? The volume addresses the challenge of continuity, sustainability, and institutionalization of archives established by Eastern European artists. At its center stands the 40th anniversary of the Artpool Art Research Center founded in 1979 in Budapest as an underground institution based on György Galántai's »Active Archive« concept. Ten internationally renowned scholars propose contemporary interpretations of this concept and frame artist archives not as mere sources of art history but as models of self-historicization. The contributions give knowledgeable insights into the transition of Cold War art networks and institutional landscapes.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004421370

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Byzantium in Eastern European Visual Culture in the Late Middle Ages by Anonim Pdf

Byzantium in Eastern European Visual Culture in the Late Middle Ages focuses on how the heritage of Byzantium was continued and transformed alongside local developments in the artistic and cultural traditions of Eastern Europe between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries.

Author : László Beke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Art
ISBN : 0933856385

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Beyond Belief by László Beke Pdf

Over the past 50 years, East European artists have seen the virtual breakdown of their societies and their cultures. Instead of seeking to replace their devalued ideologies with new belief systems, many have profoundly challenged the very concept of belief systems. In this provocative exhibition catalogue, artists and essayists from Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Romania, Bulgari and Slovakia confront Eastern Europe's cultural watershed head on. In addition to the excellent illustrations, the book includes a foldout timeline of noteworthy events since 1945, plus regional maps and a statistical profile of each country.

Author : Anna Artwinska,Anja Tippner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000464009

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The Afterlife of the Shoah in Central and Eastern European Cultures by Anna Artwinska,Anja Tippner Pdf

The Afterlife of the Shoah in Central and Eastern European Cultures is a collection of essays by literary scholars from Germany, the US, and Central Eastern Europe offering insight into the specific ways of representing the Shoah and its aftereffects as well as its entanglement with other catastrophic events in the region. Introducing the conceptual frame of postcatastrophe, the collected essays explore the discursive and artistic space the Shoah occupies in the countries between Moscow and Berlin. Postcatastrophe is informed by the knowledge of other concepts of "post" and shares their insight into forms of transmission and latency; in contrast to them, explores the after-effects of extreme events on a collective, aesthetic, and political rather than a personal level. The articles use the concept of postcatastrophe as a key to understanding the entangled and conflicted cultures of remembrance in postsocialist literatures and the arts dealing with events, phenomena, and developments that refuse to remain in the past and still continue to shape perceptions of today’s societies in Eastern Europe. As a contribution to memory studies as well as to literary criticism with a special focus on Shoah remembrance after socialism, this book is of great interest to students and scholars of European history, and those interested in historical memory more broadly.

Author : Klara Kemp-Welch
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-02-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780262038300

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Networking the Bloc by Klara Kemp-Welch Pdf

The story of the experimental zeitgeist in Eastern European art, seen through personal encounters, pioneering dialogues, collaborative projects, and cultural exchanges. Throughout the 1970s, a network of artists emerged to bridge the East-West divide, and the no less rigid divides between the countries of the Eastern bloc. Originating with a series of creative initiatives by artists, art historians, and critics and centered in places like Budapest, Poznań, and Prague, this experimental dialogue involved Western participation but is today largely forgotten in the West. In Networking the Bloc, Klara Kemp-Welch vividly recaptures this lost chapter of art history, documenting an elaborate web of artistic connectivity that came about through a series of personal encounters, pioneering dialogues, collaborative projects, and cultural exchanges. Countering the conventional Cold War narrative of Eastern bloc isolation, Kemp-Welch shows how artistic ideas were relayed among like-minded artists across ideological boundaries and national frontiers. Much of the work created was collaborative, and personal encounters were at its heart. Drawing on archival documents and interviews with participants, Kemp-Welch focuses on the exchanges and projects themselves rather than the personalities involved. Each of the projects she examines relied for its realization on a network of contributors. She looks first at the mobilization of the network, from 1964 to 1972, exploring five pioneering cases: a friendship between a Slovak artist and a French critic, an artistic credo, an exhibition, a conceptual proposition, and a book. She then charts a series of way stations for experimental art from the Soviet bloc between 1972 and 1976—points of distribution between studios, private homes, galleries, and certain cities. Finally, she investigates convergences—a succession of shared exhibitions and events in the second half of the 1970s in locations ranging from Prague to Milan to Moscow. Networking the Bloc, Kemp-Welch invites us to rethink the art of the late Cold War period from Eastern European perspectives.