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
Summary
This book engages with the historical paradigm of 'contemporary art' by examining a programme initiated in Eastern Europe by the Hungarian-American billionaire George Soros in the 1990s. The Soros Centers for Contemporary Art played a leading role in popularising the norms and conventions of 'contemporary art' throughout the region
