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Author Esanu, Octavian, author

Title Postsocialist contemporary : the institutionalization of artistic practice in Eastern Europe after 1989 / Octavian Esanu
Published Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2021

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Description 1 online resource
Series Rethinking art's histories
Rethinking art's histories.
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
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
Subject Centrul Soros pentru Arta Contemporană.
Art and society -- Former Yugoslav republics
Art and society -- Europe, Eastern
Art -- Political aspects -- Europe, Eastern
Art -- Political aspects -- Former Soviet republics
Art, Modern -- 20th century -- Economic aspects
Art, Modern -- 21st century -- Economic aspects
ART / Art & Politics.
Art -- Political aspects
Art, Modern -- Economic aspects
Art and society
Yugoslavia
Soviet Union -- Former Soviet republics
Eastern Europe
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781526158017
1526158019
9781526157997
1526157993