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The postsocialist contemporary : the institutionalization of artistic practice in Eastern Europe after 1989 / Octavian Esanu.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Esanu, Octavian, author.
- Series:
- Rethinking art's histories.
- Rethinking Art's Histories
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Centrul Soros pentru Arta Contemporan?a.
- Art and society--Former Yugoslav republics.
- Art and society.
- Art and society--Europe, Eastern.
- Art--Political aspects--Europe, Eastern.
- Art.
- Art--Political aspects--Former Soviet republics.
- Art, Modern--20th century--Economic aspects.
- Art, Modern.
- Art, Modern--21st century--Economic aspects.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : digital file(s).
- Other Title:
- Institutionalization of artistic practice in Eastern Europe after 1989
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2021.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- System Details:
- data file
- Summary:
- The postsocialist contemporary joins a growing body of scholarship debating the definition and nature of contemporary art. It comes to these debates from a historicist perspective, taking as its point of departure one particular art programme, initiated in Eastern Europe by the Hungarian-American billionaire George Soros. First implemented in Hungary, the Soros Center for Contemporary Art (SCCA) expanded to another 18 ex-socialist countries throughout the 1990s. Its mission was to build a western 'open society' by means of art. This book discusses how network managers and artists participated in the construction of this new social order by studying the programme's rise, evolution, impact and broader ideological and political consequences. Rather than recounting a history, its engages critically with 'contemporary art' as the aesthetic paradigm of late-capitalist market democracy.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- 1. Sorosart: how Eastern Europe got the idea of contemporary art
- 2. New norms and procedures: the introduction of the curatorial function
- 3. Art in the 'open society': the aesthetics of problem-solving
- 4. Antipolitics: the ideological bedrock of the postsocialist contemporary
- 5. Can there be contemporary art in North Korea? Methodological epilogue
- Index.
- Notes:
- Also issued in print: 2021.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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- ISBN:
- 9781526166487
- 1526166488
- 9781526157997
- 1526157993
- 9781526158017
- 1526158019
- OCLC:
- 1286790315
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