Postmodernism and the postsocialist condition : politicized art under late socialism / edited by Aleš Erjavec ; with a foreword by Martin Jay and contributions by Boris Groys ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Erjavec, Aleš.

Gro?is, Boris.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art--Political aspects.

Art.

Postmodernism.

Socialism and art.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (320 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 1980's 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...

Contents:

Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Introduction; The Other Gaze: Russian Unofficial Art's View of the Soviet World; Art as a Political Machine: Fragments on the Late Socialist and Postsocialist Art of Mitteleuropa and the Balkans; Neue Slowenische Kunst-New Slovenian Art: Slovenia, Yugoslavia, Self-Management, and the 1980's; Hungarian Marginal Art in the Late Period of State Socialism; The New Cuban Art; Post-Utopian Avant-Garde Art in China; List of Contributors; Index;

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612356797

9781282356795

1282356798

9780520928558

0520928555

9781597348256

1597348252

OCLC:

475926661