| Description |
1 online resource (312 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
| Contents |
Art and Democracy Cover; Imprint page; Contents; Introduction: Agoraphilia after Communism; 1. 1989: The Spatial Turn; Part I: History and Contemporaneity; 2. From Geography to Topography; 3. From the Politics of Autonomy to the Autonomy of Politics; 4. Anarchy, Critique, Utopia; Part II: Memory; 5. Between Real Socialism and Nationalism; 6. New Museums in New Europe; Part III: Democracy after Communism; 7. Art and Biopolitics: Ilya Kabakov and Krzysztof Wodiczko; 8. Gender after the Fall of the Wall; 9. Unfulfilled Democracy; References; Photo Acknowledgments; Index |
| Summary |
When the Iron Curtain fell in 1989, Eastern Europe saw a new era begin, and the widespread changes that followed extended into the world of art. Art and Democracy in Post-Communist Europe examines the art created in light of the profound political, social, economic, and cultural transformations that occurred in the former Eastern Bloc after the Cold War ended. Assessing the function of art in post-communist Europe, Piotr Piotrowski describes the changing nature of art as it went from being molded by the cultural imperatives of the communist state and a tool of political propaganda to |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-306) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Democracy and the arts -- Europe, Eastern
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Art and state -- Europe, Eastern
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Art, East European -- 20th century
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Art, East European -- 21st century
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Post-communism -- Europe, Eastern
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ART -- Russian & Former Soviet Union.
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Art and state
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Art, East European
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Democracy and the arts
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Post-communism
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Demokratie
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Kunst
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Postkommunismus
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Beeldende kunsten.
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Postcommunisme.
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Democratie.
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Eastern Europe
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Osteuropa
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Oost-Europa.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Brzyski, Anna, 1969-
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| ISBN |
9781861899316 |
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1861899319 |
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9781299139299 |
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1299139299 |
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