Postmodernism and the Postsocialist Condition: Politicized Art under Late Socialism
The Berlin Wall was coming down, the Soviet Union was dissolving, Communist China was well on its way down the capitalist path; the world was witnessing political and social transformations without precedent. Artists, seeing it all firsthand, responded with a revolution of their own. What form this revolution took-how artists in the 1980s marked their societies' traumatic transition from decaying socialism to an insecure future-emerges in this remarkable volume. With in-depth perspectives on art and artists in the former Soviet Union, the Balkans and Mitteleuropa, China, and Cuba-all from scholars and art critics who were players in the tumultuous cultural landscapes they describe-this stunningly illustrated collection captures a singular period in the history of world art, and a critical moment in the cultural and political transition from the last century to our own.
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Balkans, China, Cuba, Political art, Postmodernism, Slovenia, Socialism, Yugoslavia
Minglu Gao (Article author), Gyorgy Peter (Article author), Groys Boris (Article author), Suvakovic Misko (Article author), Erjavec Ales (Article author), Mosquera Gerardo (Article author), Jay Martin (Article author)
Stilinović Mladen, Bulatov Erik, Komar Vitaly, Melamid Alexander, Kabakov Ilya
Berkeley
2003
298 pages
9780520233348
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