Description
This book presents and analyzes artistic interactions both within the Soviet bloc and between the Western bloc between 1945 and 1989. During the Cold War the exchange of artistic ideas and products united Europe's avant-garde in a most remarkable way. Despite the Iron Curtain and national and political borders there existed a constant flow of artists, artworks, artistic ideas and practices. The geographic borders of these exchanges have yet to be clearly defined. How were networks, centers, peripheries (local, national and international), scales, and distances constructed? How did (neo)avant-garde tendencies relate with officially sanctioned socialist realism? The slowly expanding, newly translated literature on the art of Eastern Europe provides a great deal of factual knowledge about a vast cultural space, but mostly through the prism of stereotypes and national preoccupations. By discussing artworks, studying the writings on art, observing artistic evolution and artists' strategies, as well as the influence of political authorities, art dealers and art critics, the essays in Art beyond Borders compose a transnational history of arts in the Soviet satellite countries in the post war period.
The illustrations span nearly half a century and a half continent. The many short essays are arranged in four main chapters and offer a well-articulated and easily accessible discussions about the subject. In the wake of 1989, due to the public's interest in this art, a series of exhibitions were organized by prestigious institutions in both Europe and the United States.
About the Author
Jerome Bazin is associate professor in history of art and history at the University of Paris-Est. Pascal Dubourg Glatigny is senior researcher at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), Paris. Piotr Piotrowski was professor of art history at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan
Reviews
"A l'origine de cet ouvrage collectif, il y a la volonte des editeurs Jerome Bazin, Pascal Dubourg Glatigny et Piotr Piotrowski (1952-2015), de contribuer a un mouvement de decloisonnement en favorisant les croisements des outils, des methodes, des angles d'analyse et des objets d'etude de chercheurs(-ses) eloignes en termes geographiques et disciplinaires. En encourageant une apprehension transnationale et circulatoire de l'art dans l'Europe communiste et au-dela, Art beyond Borders s'inscrit dans une demarche scientifique proche de celle du programme de recherche Art@s dirige par Beatrice Joyeux-Prunel et Catherine Dossin, qui contribue actuellement a un renouvellement de l'ecriture de l'Histoire de l'art, envisagee dans une perspective globale et interconnectee. Les editeurs signalent " le deplacement de la guerre ideologique de l'Europe vers le Tiers monde, vers des contextes ou les "Etats modernes" etaient encore a creer, particulierement en Asie et en Afrique ". L'exemple de Algerie est aborde (a travers l'exposition Algerie 1952 organisee en 1953 a Paris) pour ce qui concerne le continent africain." * Cahiers d'etudes africaines *
Book Information
ISBN 9789633860830
Author Jerome Bazin
Format Hardback
Page Count 510
Imprint Central European University Press
Publisher Central European University Press
Weight(grams) 850g
The illustrations span nearly half a century and a half continent. The many short essays are arranged in four main chapters and offer a well-articulated and easily accessible discussions about the subject. In the wake of 1989, due to the public's interest in this art, a series of exhibitions were organized by prestigious institutions in both Europe and the United States.
About the Author
Jerome Bazin is associate professor in history of art and history at the University of Paris-Est. Pascal Dubourg Glatigny is senior researcher at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), Paris. Piotr Piotrowski was professor of art history at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan
Reviews
"A l'origine de cet ouvrage collectif, il y a la volonte des editeurs Jerome Bazin, Pascal Dubourg Glatigny et Piotr Piotrowski (1952-2015), de contribuer a un mouvement de decloisonnement en favorisant les croisements des outils, des methodes, des angles d'analyse et des objets d'etude de chercheurs(-ses) eloignes en termes geographiques et disciplinaires. En encourageant une apprehension transnationale et circulatoire de l'art dans l'Europe communiste et au-dela, Art beyond Borders s'inscrit dans une demarche scientifique proche de celle du programme de recherche Art@s dirige par Beatrice Joyeux-Prunel et Catherine Dossin, qui contribue actuellement a un renouvellement de l'ecriture de l'Histoire de l'art, envisagee dans une perspective globale et interconnectee. Les editeurs signalent " le deplacement de la guerre ideologique de l'Europe vers le Tiers monde, vers des contextes ou les "Etats modernes" etaient encore a creer, particulierement en Asie et en Afrique ". L'exemple de Algerie est aborde (a travers l'exposition Algerie 1952 organisee en 1953 a Paris) pour ce qui concerne le continent africain." * Cahiers d'etudes africaines *
Book Information
ISBN 9789633860830
Author Jerome Bazin
Format Hardback
Page Count 510
Imprint Central European University Press
Publisher Central European University Press
Weight(grams) 850g
