Central and Eastern Europe Bibliography

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A multilingual bibliography of writings on avant-gardes in east-central Europe. For literature on individual authors see their respective pages.

Contents

Light-music synthesis[edit]

East-Central Europe[edit]

Bibliography

Czech Republic[edit]

Lithuania[edit]

  • Viacheslav Ivanov, "Churlianis i problema sinteza iskusstv" [Čiurlionis and the problem of the synthesis of the arts]. Apollon 3 (Mar 1914), pp 5-21. (Latvian)
    • "Ciurlonis and the problem of the synthesis of arts", Lituanus 7:2 (Jun 1961), pp 45-57. (English)

Ukraine[edit]

Avant-garde[edit]

East-Central Europe[edit]

Catalogues
  • Europa, Europa. Das Jahrhundert der Avantgarde in Mittel- und Osteuropa, eds. Ryszard Stanislawski and Christoph Brockhaus, Bonn, 1994. Contributions from c150 authors. Four volumes: Vol I (five introductory essays followed by 73 short texts on the work of specific artists) 479 pp. incl. 247 col. pls. and 116 b&w ills.; Vol II (36 essays on aspects of architecture, literature, theatre, film and music) 239 pp. incl. 251 b&w ills.; Vol III, compiled by Hubertus Gassner (354 short texts of the period 1894-1994 by artists, critics etc., in German translation), 367 pp.; Vol IV (biographies; selected bibliography; list of exhibited works; index) 99 pp. [5] [6] (German)
  • Central European Avant-Gardes: Exchange and Transformation, 1910-1930, ed. Timothy O. Benson, forew. Péter Nádas, Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2002, 447 pp. Publisher. Review: Zusi (SEEJ). (English)
  • Von Kandinsky bis Tatlin: Konstruktivismus in Europa/From Kandinsky to Tatlin: Constructivism in Europe, Schwerin: Staatliches Museum; and Bonn: Kunstmuseum, 2006. (German)/(English)
  • Vzplanutí. Expresionistické tendence ve Střední Evropě 1903-1936, ed. Ladislav Daněk, Olomouc: Muzeum umění Olomouc, 2008, 200 pp. [7] (Czech)
Anthologies
Books
  • George Rickey, Constructivism: Origins and Evolution, New York: G. Braziller, 1967, xi+306 pp, OL; rev.ed., 1995, xi+306 pp. (English)
  • Willy Rotzler, Konstruktive Konzepte: eine Geschichte der konstruktiven Kunst vom Kubismus bis heute, Zurich: ABC, 1977, 299 pp; new ed., 1988, 332 pp; 3rd ed., 1995, 332 pp. (German)
  • Krisztina Passuth, Les avant-gardes de l'Europe Centrale, 1907-1927, Paris: Flammarion, 1988, 327 pp. (French)
    • Avantgarde kapcsolatok Prágától Bukarestig 1907-1930, Budapest: Balassi, 1998, 381 pp. (Hungarian)
    • Treffpunkte der Avantgarden: Ostmitteleuropa 1907–1930, trans. Aniko Harmath, Dresden: Verlag der Kunst, 2003, 337 pp. Review: Dmitrieva-Einhorn (H-Soz-Kult 2006). (German)
  • Lothar Lang, Konstruktivismus und Buchkunst, Leipzig: Edition Leipzig, 1990, 208 pp. TOC. (German)
  • S.A. Mansbach, Modern Art in Eastern Europe: From the Baltic to the Balkans, ca. 1890-1939, Cambridge University Press, 1999, 384 pp, IA. (English)
  • Dubravka Djurić, Miško Šuvaković (eds.), Impossible Histories: Historical Avant-gardes, Neo-avant-gardes, and Post-avant-gardes in Yugoslavia, 1918-1991, MIT Press, 2003, xviii+605 pp. (English)
  • Vojtěch Lahoda (ed.), Local Strategies, International Ambitions: Modern Art and Central Europe 1918-1968, Prague: Artefactum, 2006, 243 pp. Papers from the international conference, Prague, 11-14 Jun 2003. TOC. Papers: Anna Brzynski, Maria Elena Versari. [8] [9]
  • Elizabeth Clegg, Art, Design, and Architecture in Central Europe 1890-1920, Yale University Press, 2006, 356 pp. [10] (English)
  • Sascha Bru, et al. (eds.), Europa! Europa? The Avant-Garde, Modernism and the Fate of a Continent, 1, Berlin: De Gruyter, 2009. (English)
  • Günter Berghaus (ed.), Futurism in Eastern and Central Europe, De Gruyter (International Yearbook of Futurism Studies 1), 2011. (English)
  • Sarah Posman, Anne Reverseau, David Ayers, Sascha Bru, Benedikt Hjartarson (eds.), The Aesthetics of Matter: Modernism, the Avant-Garde and Material Exchange, De Gruyter, 2013. (English)
  • Beata Hock, Klara Kemp-Welch, Jonathan Owen (eds.), A Reader in East-Central European Modernism, 1918-1956, London: Courtauld Books Online, 2019, 432 pp, PDFs, HTML. Review: Drobe (Craace). (English)
  • Beate Störtkuhl, Rafał Makała (eds.), Nicht nur Bauhaus – Netzwerke der Moderne in Mitteleuropa / Not Just Bauhaus – Networks of Modernity in Central Europe, Oldenbourg: De Gruyter, 2020, 400 pp. Publisher. Review: Secklehner (Art East Central). (German),(English)
Journal issues
  • Art Journal 49(1): "From Leningrad to Ljubljana: The Suppressed Avant-Gardes of East-Central and Eastern Europe during the Early Twentieth Century" (Spring 1990). [11] (English)
  • Centropa 3(1): "Central European Architectural Students at the Bauhaus", New York: Centropa, Jan 2003. [12] (English)
  • Centropa 6(2): "Central European Artists and Paris: 1920s-1930s", ed. Irena Kossowska, New York: Centropa, May 2006. [13] (English)
  • Centropa 11(1): "Central European Art Groups, 1880-1914", ed. Anna Brzyski, New York: Centropa, Jan 2011. [14] (English)
Articles, talks

Czech Republic[edit]

Publications[edit]

Magazines
Almanacs
Manifestos
Anthologies

Literature[edit]

For literature on Czech Cubism and Cubo-Expressionism see dedicated page.

Catalogues
  • Tschechische Avantgarde 1922-1940. Reflexe europäischer Kunst und Fotographie in der Buchgestaltung, ed. Zdenek Primus, Hamburg: Kunstverein, 1990, 207 pp. Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Kunstverein in Hamburg, June 1-July 15, 1990 and the Museum Bochum, Dec. 15, 1990-Jan. 27, 1991. (German)
  • Das Bauhaus im Osten: Slowakische und tschechische Avantgarde 1928-1939, ed. Susanne Anna, Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz, et al., 1997, 339 pp. [18] TOC, [19]. Review: Long (SDA 2000 EN). (German)
Books
  • Karel Honzík, Ze života avantgardy: zážitky architektovy, Prague: Československý spisovatel, 1963, 240 pp. Review: Závodský (1964). (Czech)
  • Alfred French, The Poets of Prague: Czech Poetry Between the Wars, Oxford University Press, 1969, 129 pp. (English)
  • Vladimir Müller, Der Poetismus: das Programm und die Hauptverfahren der tschechischen literarischen Avantgarde der Zwanziger Jahre, Munich: Sagner, 1978, 223 pp. (German)
  • Vladimír Birgus, Česká fotografická avantgarda 1918–1948, Prague: Kant, 1999. (Czech)
    • Vladimír Birgus, Tschechische Avantgarde - Fotografie 1918-1948, Stuttgart: Arnoldsche, 1999. (German)
    • Vladimír Birgus, Czech Photographic Avant-Garde, 1918-1948, MIT Press, 2002, 311 pp. [20]
  • Jaroslav Anděl, Nová vize (Avantgardní architektura v avantgardní fotografii: Československo 1918-1938), Bratislava: Slovart, 2005. (Czech)
  • Danuše Kšicová, Od moderny k avantgardě. Rusko-české paralely, Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2007, 467+48 pp. Review: Krystynkova (Universitas 2011). (Czech)
  • Jana Horáková, Robot jako robot, Prague: KLP, 2010, 238 pp. [21] (Czech)
  • Josef Vojvodík, Jan Wiendl (eds.), Heslář české avantgardy. Estetické koncepty a proměny uměleckých postupů v letech 1908-1958, Prague: Univerzita Karlova & Togga, 2011, 477 pp. Review. (Czech)
    • A Glossary of Catchwords of the Czech Avant-Garde: Conceptions of Aesthetics and the Changing Faces of Art 1908-1958, Prague: Togga, 2012, 511 pp. [22] (English)
  • Jeanette Fabian, Poetismus. Ästhetische Theorie und künstlerische Praxis der tschechischen Avantgarde, Munich: Sagner, 2013. [23] (German)
  • Thomas G. Winner, The Czech Avant-Garde Literary Movement Between the Two World Wars, eds. Ondřej Sládek and Michael Heim, Peter Lang, 2015, 200 pp. (English)
  • Markéta Svobodová, Bauhaus a Československo 1919-1938: studenti, koncepty, kontakty / The Bauhaus and Czechoslovakia 1919-1938: Students, Concepts, Contacts, Prague: Kant, 2016, 255 pp. [24] (Czech)/(English)
  • Marta Filipová, Modernity, History, and Politics in Czech Art, Routledge, 2019. (English)
Essays
Dissertations

Slovakia[edit]

For literature about the School of Arts and Crafts see its dedicated page.

Catalogues
  • Das Bauhaus im Osten: Slowakische und tschechische Avantgarde 1928-1939, ed. Susanne Anna, Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz, et al., 1997, 339 pp. [37] TOC, [38]. Review: Long (SDA 2000 EN). (German)
  • Košice Modernism and Its Wider Context, eds. Zuzana Bartošová and Lena Lešková, Košice: Východoslovenská galéria, 2013. Exhibition. (English)
Books, journal issues
  • Ars 3:2 "Výtvarné avantgardy a dnešok", Bratislava: Slovak Academy of Sciences, 1969. Proceedings from an international conference held at Smolenice, 12-14 June 1968. Papers by Irena Blühová, Júlia Horová, Iva Mojžišová, František Reichenthal, Tomáš Štrauss, Eduard Toran, Marian Váross, Hans Maria Wingler, et al. [39] (Slovak)
  • František Foltýn, Slowakische Architektur und die tschechische Avantgarde. 1918-1939, Dresden: Verlag der Kunst, 1991, pp 90-94. (German)
  • Klára Kubičková (ed.), Moderné hnutie na Slovensku: Avantgarda medzivojnového obdobia / Modern Movement in Slovakia: Avantgarde of the Interwar Period, Bratislava: Spolok architektov Slovenska, 1996, 86 pp. Catalogue for the exhibition in Slovak National Museum, held on 17.9.-27.10.1996, organized on the occasion of the Fourth International Conference DOCOMOMO in Slovakia. (Slovak)/(English)
  • Zsófia Kiss-Szemán (ed.), Košická moderna. Umenie Košíc v dvadsiatych rokoch 20. storočia / Košice Modernism. Košice Art in the 1920s, Košice: Východoslovenská galéria, 2010, 198 pp. Collection of papers from an international research symposium held in the East Slovak Gallery in Košice, 11-12 Nov 2010. (Slovak)/(English)
  • Ľubomír Longauer, Modernity of Tradition / Modernosť tradície, Bratislava: Slovart, 2012, 354 pp. Video discussion. (English)/(Slovak)
  • Lena Lešková (ed.), Košická moderna. Umenie Košíc v dvadsiatych rokoch 20. storočia / Košice Modernism. Košice Art in the Nineteen-Twenties, Košice: Východoslovenská galéria, 2013, 413 pp. (Slovak)/(English)
  • Markéta Svobodová, Bauhaus a Československo 1919-1938: studenti, koncepty, kontakty / The Bauhaus and Czechoslovakia 1919-1938: Students, Concepts, Contacts, Prague: Kant, 2016, 255 pp. [40] (Czech)/(English)
Articles
  • Iva Mojžišová, "A Slovak Contribution to Avant-garde Movements", Actes du XXIIe Congres International d'Histoire de l'Art, 2, Budapest: Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 1969, pp 347-349. (English)
  • Peter Havaš, "Die slowakische Architektur in der Zwischenkriegszeit als fortschrittliches Erbe der modernen Bewegung", Wissenschaftliche Zeitschrift / A 33:4/6, Hochschule für Architektur und Bauwesen, 1987. (German)
  • Leo Kohut, "Bauhaus. Ungarn-Tschechoslowakei. Zur Bauhaus-Rezeption in Ost-europa", in Bauhaus-Archiv, Museum. Sammlungs-Katalog, (Auswahl), Architektur, Design, Malerei, Graphik, Kunstpädagogik, Berlin: Gebr. Mann, 1981, pp 283-287. (German)
  • Dana Borutová, "Architektonische Entwicklungstendenzen der zwanziger Jahre in der Slowakei", in The Art of the 1920s in Poland, Bohemia, Slovakia, and Hungary, ed. Lech Kalinowski, Cracow: International Cultural Centre, 1991, pp 33-40. (German)
  • Iva Mojžišová, "The First Wave of Avant-garde: Bratislava 1930", in The Art of the 1920s in Poland, Bohemia, Slovakia, and Hungary, ed. Lech Kalinowski, Cracow: International Cultural Centre, 1991, pp 47-51. (English)
  • Iva Mojžišová, "Podnety a predchodcovia kinetizmu na Slovensku (1929-1939)", MADI ap 4 (Mar 2002). [41] (Slovak)/(Hungarian)
  • Markéta Svobodová, "Studentky z Československa na Bauhausu 1919-1933: Výmar – Desava – Berlin", in Žena-umělkyně na přelomu 19. a 20. století. Sborník příspěvků z mezinárodní odborné konference ve Středočeském muzeu v Roztokách u Prahy ve dnech 11. a 12. října 2005, Roztoky u Prahy, 2005, pp 333-344. (Czech)
  • Markéta Svobodová, "Českoslovenští studenti architektury na Bauhausu", Umění/Art LIV:5 (2006), pp 406-432. (Czech) [42] [43]
  • Sonia de Puineuf, "A Dot on the Map: Some Remarks on the Magazine 'Nová Bratislava'", The Journal of Modern Periodical Studies 1:1 (2010). (English)
  • Richard Kitta, "(Ne)existujúce paralely: Umenie akcie, multimediálne a interaktívne umenie v kultúrno-historickom vývoji umenia 1. pol. 20. storočia na Slovensku", Rovart, Mar 2010. [44] [45] (Slovak)
  • Peter Biľak, "Forgotten History", Typotheque blog, April 2012. (English)
Dissertations
  • Mira Keratová, Slovenská avantgardná typografia v medzivojnovom období so zameraním na grafickú úpravu časopisov, Bratislava: Comenius University, 2005. Master's thesis. (Slovak)
  • Markéta Svobodová, Bauhaus a kultura v Československu v 1919-1939, Olomouc, 2007. Dissertation. (Czech)

Hungary[edit]

Catalogues
  • WechselWirkungen. Ungarische Avantgarde in der Weimarer Republik, ed. Hubertus Gassner, Marburg: Jonas, 1986, 589 pp. Catalog of an exhibition held at the Neue Galerie, Kassel, Nov. 9, 1986-Jan. 1, 1987, and at the Museum Bochum, Jan. 10-Feb. 15, 1987. (German)
  • The Hungarian Avant-Garde 1914-1933, ed. John Kish, William Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut, 1987. (English)
  • Steven A. Mansbach, Standing in the Tempest: Painters of the Hungarian Avant-Garde, 1908-1930, Santa Barbara, CA: Santa Barbara Museum of Art, and Cambridge University Press, 1991, 240 pp. (English)
  • Von Kunst zu Leben. Die Ungarn am Bauhaus, ed. Éva Bajkay, Pécs: Janus Pannonius Múzeum & Hungarofest, 2010, 413 pp. [46] (German)
Books, journal issues
Articles
  • Edith Horváth, "Ungarn und das Bauhaus", Wissenschaftliche Zeitschrift 23:5/6, Hochschule für Architektur und Bauwesen, 1976. (German)
  • Gyula Pap, "Bauhauserziehung in Ungarn: 'Nagy Balogh' - Volkskollegium und Malerschule in Nagymaros 1948-1949", Wissenschaftliche Zeitschrift 26:4/5, Hochschule für Architektur und Bauwesen, 1979. (German)
  • Leo Kohut, "Bauhaus. Ungarn-Tschechoslowakei. Zur Bauhaus-Rezeption in Ost-europa", in Bauhaus-Archiv, Museum. Sammlungs-Katalog, (Auswahl), Architektur, Design, Malerei, Graphik, Kunstpädagogik, Berlin: Gebr. Mann, 1981, pp 283-287. (German)
  • Miklos von Bartha, "Carl Laszlo. Der Sturm. Die ungarischen Kunstler am Sturm, Berlin, 1931-32", Basel Galerie von Bartha, 1983.
  • E.H. Sipos, "Hungarian Relations with Bauhaus and their Influence in Hungary", 1985.
  • Hubertus Gassner, "'Ersehnte Einheit' oder 'erpresste Versohnung': Zur Kontinuitat und Diskontinuitat ungarischer Konstruktivismus-Konzeption" in WechselWirkungen. Ungarische Avantgarde in der Weimarer Republik, ed. Gassner, 1986, pp 183-220. (German)
  • Esther Levinger, "Lajos Kassak, MA and the New Artist: 1916-1925", The Structurist 25/26, 1986, pp 78-87. (English)
  • Esther Levinger, "The Theory of Hungarian Constructivism", The Art Bulletin 69:3 (Sep 1987), pp. 455-466. [47] (English)
  • Eva Bajkay-Rosch, "Gruppenbildung in Weimar: Beiträge der unbekannten ungarischen Bauhäusler", Wissenschaftliche Zeitschrift / A 33:4/6, Hochschule für Architektur und Bauwesen, 1987. (German)
  • Oliver A.I. Botar, "Constructivism, International Constructivism, and the Hungarian Emigration", in The Hungarian Avant-Garde 1914-1933, William Benton Museum of Art, 1987, pp 90-98. (English)
  • Esther Levinger, "Hungarian Constructivist Typography and Posters", in The Hungarian Avant-Garde 1914-1933, William Benton Museum of Art, 1987, pp 112-122. (English)
  • S. A. Mansbach, "Confrontation and Accommodation in the Hungarian Avant-Garde", Art Journal 49:1 (Spring 1990), pp 9-20. [48] (English)
  • Oliver A.I. Botar, "From the Avant-Garde to 'Proletarian Art'. The Émigré Hungarian Journals Egység and Akasztott Ember, 1922-23", Art Journal 52(1): "Political Journals and Art, 1910-40", College Art Association, Spring 1993, pp 34-45; exp.version as "From Avant-Garde to 'Proletkult' in Hungarian Émigré Politico-Cultural Journals, 1922-1924", in Art and Journals on the Political Front 1910-1940, ed. Virginia Hagelstein Marquardt, University Press of Florida, 1997, pp 100-141. (English)
  • Eva Forgacs, "Between Cultures: Hungarian Concepts of Constructivism", in Central European Avant-Gardes: Exchange and Transformation, 1910-1930, ed. Timothy O. Benson, MIT Press/Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2002, pp 146-164. (English)
  • András Ferkai, "Hungary: Marcel Breuer, Farkas Molnár, Pál Forgó, Ernó Lichtenthal, Laszló Szabó, Tibor Weiner, Alfréd Forbát, István Sebök, Mühely, Atelier Müvészerti Tervezö, Mühelyiskola / András Ferkai", Centropa 3 (2003) 1, pp 13-26. (English)
  • Peter Weibel, "Viennese Kineticism and Hungarian Constructivism", in Beyond Art: A Third Culture, Springer, 2005, pp 46-56. (English)
  • Peter Weibel, "On the Origins of Hungarian Constructivism in Vienna: MA 1920-25. The Only Instance of Modernism Between the Wars", in Beyond Art: A Third Culture, Springer, 2005, pp 57-71. (English)
  • Peter Konok, "Lajos Kassák and the Hungarian Left: Radical Milieu (1926–1934)", in Regimes and Transformations. Hungary in the Twentieth Century, eds. István Feitl and Balázs Sipos, Budapest: Napvilág, 2005, pp 177-194. [49] (English)
  • Éva Forgács, "'You Feed Us So that We Can Fight Against You'. Concepts of the Art and State in the Hungarian Avant-Garde", Arcadia 41:2 (2006), pp 260-274. (English)
  • Krisztina Passuth, "Hungarians at the Bauhaus", Hungarian Quarterly 200 (Winter 2010). (English)
  • Éva Forgács, Tyrus Miller, "The Avant-Garde in Budapest and in Exile in Vienna: A Tett (1915-6), Ma (Budapest 1916-9; Vienna 1920-6), Egység (1922-4), Akasztott Ember (1922), 2x2 (1922), Ék (1923-4), Is (1924), 365 (1925), Dokumentum (1926-7), and Munka (1928-39)", in The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines, Vol. 3: Europe, 1880-1940, Oxford University Press, 2013, pp 1128-1156. [50] (English)

Poland[edit]

For writings on futurism, formism and constructivism specifically, see sections below.

Catalogues
  • Jaroslaw Lubiak, Malgorzata Ludwisiak, Korespondencje: Sztuka nowoczesna i uniwersalizm/Correspondences: Modern Art and Universalism, Lodz: Muzeum Sztuki, 2012. Catalogue of a retrospective exhibition of the collection of Muzeum Sztuki and Kunstmuseum, Bern.
Books
  • Helena Zaworska, O nową sztukę. Polskie programy artystyczne lat 1917-1922, PIW, 1963. (Polish)
  • Andrzej Lam, Polska awangarda poetycka. Programy lat 1917-1923, Cracow: Wydawnictwo Literackie, 1969. (Polish)
  • Wiesław Szymański, Z dziejów czasopism literackich w dwudziestoleciu międzywojennym, Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Literackie, 1970, 386 pp. (Polish)
  • Tadeusz Kłak, Czasopisma awangardy, 2 vols., (1919-1931 & 1931-1939), Wroclaw: Ossolineum, 1978 & 1979, 244 & 219 pp. (Polish)
  • Bogdana Carpenter, The Poetic Avant-Garde in Poland: 1918-1939, University of Washington Press, 1983, xviii+234 pp. Review: Baranczak (PR 1984). (English)
  • Lech Kalinowski (ed.), The Art of the 1920s in Poland, Bohemia, Slovakia, and Hungary, Cracow: International Cultural Centre, 1991. Proceedings from the Niedzica Seminars VI, 19-22 Oct 1989. TOC.
  • Ryszard Kluszczyński, Awangarda: rozważania teoretyczne, Łódź: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 1997. [51] (Polish)
  • Andrzej Turowski, Budowniczowie świata. Z dziejów radykalnego modernizmu, Cracow: Universitas, 2000, 416 pp. (Polish)
  • Marek Bartelik, Early Polish Modern Art: Unity in Multiplicity, Manchester University Press, 2005. [52]
  • Marci Shore, Caviar and Ashes: A Warsaw Generation's Life and Death in Marxism, 1918-1968, Yale University Press, 2006, 457 pp.
  • Piotr Rypson, Against All Odds. Polish Graphic Design 1919-1949, Karakter, 2011. [53]
Articles
  • Piotr Piotrowski, "Art and Independence. Polish Art in the 1920s", 1993. (English)
  • Irena Kossowska, "Między tradycją i awangardą. Polska sztuka lat 1920 i 1930", Culture.pl, 2004. (Polish)
  • Alina Kowalczykowa, "The Interwar Years – 1918-1939", in Ten Centuries of Polish Literature, Warsaw: Wydawnictwo IBL PAN, 2004, pp 202-227. [54]
  • E. Ranocchi, "Miłość maszyn. Antynomie maszyny w polskim modernizmie", Studi Slavistici VIII (2011), pp 137-160. (Polish)
  • Przemysław Strożek, "Cracow and Warsaw: Becoming the Avant-Garde. Formiści (1919-1921), Nowa Sztuka (1921-1922), Zwrotnica (first series 1922-1923), Blok (1924-1926)", in The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines, vol. 3 (Europe, 1880-1940), New York: Oxford University Press, 2013, pp 1184-1207. [55]
  • Lidia Gluchowska, "Poznan and Lodz: National Modernism and the International Avant-Garde", in The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines, vol. 3 (Europe, 1880-1940), New York: Oxford University Press, 2013, pp 1208-1233. [56]
Dissertations

Futurists[edit]

  • Nina Kolesnikoff, "Polish Futurism. Its Origin and the Aesthetic Program", Canadian Slavonic Papers 18:3 (Sep 1976), pp 301-311. (English)
  • Beata Sniecikowska, Nuz w uhu Koncepcje dzwieku w poezji polskiego futuryzmu, Wroclaw: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wroclawskiego, 2008. [57] (Polish)
  • I. Gwóźdź-Szewczenko, Futuryzm w czeskim pejzażu literackim, Wrocław, 2009. (Polish)
  • Przemysław Strożek, "'Marinetti is foreign to us': Polish Responses to Italian Futurism, 1917-1923", in International Yearbook of Futurism Studies, Vol. 1., ed. G. Berghaus, Berlin and New York: Walter De Gruyter, 2011, pp 84-108. (English)
  • Przemysław Strożek, "Poland", in International Futurism 1945-2009. A Bibliographic Reference Shelf, ed. G. Berghaus, Berlin-New York: De Gruyter, 2012. (English)
  • Przemysław Strożek, Marinetti i futuryzm w Polsce 1909-1939: obecność, kontakty, wydarzenia, Warsaw: Instytut Sztuki Polskiej Akademii Nauk, 2012, 383 pp. (Polish)

Formists[edit]

Writings and manifestos (selection)
  • Leon Chwistek, "Wielość rzeczywistości w sztuce" [The Plurality of Realities in Art], Maski 1-4 (Jan-Feb 1918); repr. in Przeglad Wspolczesny 9 (Apr-Jun 1924); repr. in Wielość rzeczywistości w sztuce i inne szkice literackie, 1960, pp 24-50; repr. in Wybór pism estetycznych, 2004, pp 3-20. (Polish) Chwistek proposed the theory of the "plurality of realities in art" as a reaction against the dualistic model of the avant-garde. Later on, in various interdisciplinary discussions about art, mathematics, poetry, architecture and politics, he argued against agitprop and the missionary stance of the avant-garde, in favour of an open, modern and transnational society.
  • Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, "Nowe formy w malarstwie i wynikające stąd nieporozumienia", 1919. Formulates the principles of Pure Form. (Polish)
  • Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, Szkice estetyczne [Aesthetic Sketches], 1922. (Polish)
  • Leon Chwistek, Wielość rzeczywistości [The Plurality of Realities], Kraków: Zaklad graficzny 'Wisloka' w Jaśle, 1921, 96 pp; repr. in Chwistek, Pisma filozoficzne i logiczne, 1, 1961, pp 30-105. (Polish)
Literature

Constructivists[edit]

Writings and manifestos (selection)
  • Tadeusz Peiper, "Metropolis. Mass. Machine." [Miasto. Masa. Maszyna.], Zwrotnica 2, 1922. Manifesto, initial inspiration for Awangarda Krakowska literary group.
  • Mieczyslaw Szczuka, Teresa Żarnowerówna, "Co to jest konstruktywizm" [What is Constructivism], Blok group manifesto, Blok 6-7, Sep 1924.
  • Władysław Strzemiński, "B = 2", Blok no. 8-9, 1924. Presents a theory of unism.
  • Henryk Berlewi, "Mechano-Faktura", 1924. Published in German by Der Sturm in Berlin and in Polish by Jazz in Warsaw (translated by K.J. Michaelsen). In retrospect, Berlewi placed his manifesto between Witkacy's "Nowe formy w malarstwie" (1919) and Strzeminski's "Unism w malarstwie" (1928).
  • Julian Przyboś, "Człowiek w rzeczach"; "Człowiek nad przyrodą", Zwrotnica, 1926.
  • Władysław Strzemiński, Unizm w malarstwie [Unism in Painting], Biblioteka Praesens, no. 3, Warsaw, 1928.
  • Wtadysław Strzemiński, et al., "Komunikat Grupy 'a.r.'" [Communiqué of the Group ‘a.r.’], Europa, no. 9, 1930.
  • more: [59], [60], [61], [62], [63], [64], [65], [66]
Literature
  • Constructivism in Poland 1923-1936: BLOK, Praesens, a.r., Łódź: Muzeum Sztuki in Łódź, 1973, 208 pp. Catalogue. [67] Review: Werner. (English),(Dutch),(German)
  • Aleksander Wojciechowski (ed.), Polskie życie artystyczne w latach 1915-1939 [The Polish artistic life in years 1915-1939], Wrocław: Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich, 1974. (Polish)
  • Z. Baranowicz, Polska awangarda artystyczna 1918-1927, Warsaw, 1975. (Polish)
  • Konstruktywizm w Polsce 1923-1936, ed. Janusz Zagrodzki, Łódź: Muzeum Sztuki w Łodzi, 1978, [29] pp. Catalogue. (Polish)
  • Vladimír Šlapeta, "Die Architektur an der Akademie für Kunst und Kunstgewerbe in Breslau", Wissenschaftliche Zeitschrift 26:4/5, Hochschule für Architektur und Bauwesen, 1979. (German)
  • Andrzej Turowski, W kręgu konstruktiwizmu, Warsaw: Wydawnictwa Artystyczne i Filmowe, 1979, 288 pp. (Polish)
  • Andrzej Turowski, Konstruktywizm polski: próba rekonstrukcji nurtu, 1921-1934, Wroclaw: Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich, 1981, 360 pp. Review: Gryglewicz (FHA 1985). (Polish)
  • David Crowley, "The Cracow School and the Second Republic", in National Style and Nation-state: Design in Poland. From the Vernacular Revival to the International Style, Manchester University Press, 1992, pp 54-79. (English)
  • David Crowley, "Questioning Parochialism", in National Style and Nation-state: Design in Poland. From the Vernacular Revival to the International Style, Manchester University Press, 1992, pp 80-101. (English)
  • Samuel Albert, "Poland. Bauhaus Students: Max Sinowjewitsch Krajewski, Arieh Sharon, Munio Weinreb (Gitai), Edgar Hecht (Hed), Isaac Weinfeld, Shlomo Bernstein, Schmuel Mestechkin", Centropa 3:1 (2003). [68]
  • Ilana Löwy, "Ways of Seeing: Ludwik Fleck and Polish Debates on the Perception of Reality, 1890–1947", Studies In History and Philosophy of Science 39:3 (Sep 2008), pp 375-383. (English)
  • Magdalena Ziółkowska, "The Laboratory of Constructivism / Laboratorium konstruktywizmu", in Archywum 2, Łódź: Museum of Art, 2009, pp 66-77. (English)/(Polish)

Yugoslavia[edit]

  • Treća decenija, Konstruktivno slikarstvo, eds. Jerko Denegri and Dragoslav Đorđević, Belgrade: Muzej savremene umetnosti, 1967, 249 pp. Catalogue; with texts by Miodrag B. Protić, Jerko Denegri, Špelca Čopič. (Serbo-Croatian),(French)
  • 1929-1950: Nadrealizam, socijalana umetnost, ed. Miodrag B. Protić, Belgrade: Muzej primenjene umetnosti, 1969, 291 pp. Catalogue; in the exhibition the work of the Belgrade Surrealists was reconstructed, studied and exhibited as a whole for the first time. With texts by Miodrag B. Protić, Jerko Denegri, Božica Ćosić, Josip Depolo, Špelca Čopič, Azra Begić, Boris Petrovski, Boris Šuica, Dragoslav Đorđević. [69] (Serbo-Croatian)
  • Četvrta decenija, Ekspresionizam boje, poetski realizam, ed. Miodrag B. Protić, Belgrade: Muzej savremene umetnosti, 1971, 206 pp. Catalogue; with texts by Miodrag B. Protić, Jerko Denegri, Aleksa Čelebonović, Igor Zidić, Špelca Čopič. (Serbo-Croatian)
  • Želimir Koščević, "Jugoslawische Bauhausschüler", Wissenschaftliche Zeitschrift / A, Hochschule für Architektur und Bauwesen, Jg. 33, 1987, H. 4/6. [70]
  • Irina Subotić, "Avant-Garde Tendencies in Yugoslavia", Art Journal 49(1): "From Leningrad to Ljubljana: The Suppressed Avant-Gardes of East-Central and Eastern Europe during the Early Twentieth Century", College Art Association, Spring 1990, pp 21-27. [71]
  • Esther Levinger, "The Avant-Garde in Yugoslavia", The Structurist 29/30, 1990, pp 66-72.
  • Irina Subotić, "Concerning Art and Politics in Yugoslavia during the 1930s", Art Journal Vol. 52, No. 1, Political Journals and Art, 1910-40 (Spring, 1993), pp. 69-71. [72]
  • Ivan Dorovský, "Některé zvláštnosti balkánské avantgardy", in Dorovský, Balkán a Mediterán: literárně historické a teoretické studie, Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 1997, pp 193-201. (Czech)
  • Esther Levinger, "Ljubomir Micic and the Zenitist Utopia", in Exchange and Transformation: The Central European Avant-Garde, 1910-1930, Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2002, pp 260-278.
  • Dragomir Ugren, et al., Centralnoevropski aspekti Vojvođanskih avangardi, 1920-2000: granični fenomeni, fenomeni granica, Novi Sad: MSUV, 2002, 193 pp. Catalogue. (Serbian)
  • Dubravka Djurić, Miško Šuvaković (eds.), Impossible Histories: Historical Avant-gardes, Neo-avant-gardes, and Post-avant-gardes in Yugoslavia, 1918-1991, MIT Press, 2003, xviii+605 pp. (English)
  • Dubravka Đurić, "Radical Poetic Practices: Concrete and Visual Poetry in the Avant-garde and Neo-avant-garde", in Impossible Histories: Historical Avant-gardes, Neo-avant-gardes, and Post-avant-gardes in Yugoslavia, 1918-1991, eds. Dubravka Djurić and Miško Šuvaković, MIT Press, 2003, pp 64-95. (English)
  • Darko Šimičić, "From Zenit to Mental Space: Avant-garde, Neo-avant-garde, and Post-avant-garde Magazines and Books in Yugoslavia, 1921-1987", in Impossible Histories: Historical Avant-gardes, Neo-avant-gardes, and Post-avant-gardes in Yugoslavia, 1918-1991, eds. Dubravka Djurić and Miško Šuvaković, MIT Press, 2003, pp 294-331. (English)
  • Katherine Ann Carl, Aoristic Avant-garde: Experimental Art in 1960s and 1970s Yugoslavia. Dissertation, Stony Brook University, May 2009. [73]
  • Г. Тешић, Српска књижевна авангарда. Књижевноисторијски контекст (1902–1934), Belgrade: Институт за књижевност и уметност - Службени гласник, 2009, 618 pp. Review.
  • Laurel Seely Voloder and Tyrus Miller, "Avant-Garde Periodicals in the Yugoslavian Crucible", in The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines, vol. 3 (Europe, 1880-1940), New York: Oxford University Press, 2013, pp 1099-1127.
  • Miško Šuvaković, "Avant-Gardes in Yugoslavia", Filozofski vestnik 37:1, 2016, pp 201-219. [74]
  • Antologiya yugoslavskogo avangarda [Антология югославского авангарда], trans. & forew. Adam Randzhelovich (Адам Ранджелович), Moscow: Opustoshitel (Опустошитель), 2019, 184 pp. Anthology. [75] (Russian)
  • Na robu: vizualna umetnost v Kraljevini Jugoslaviji (1929–1941) / On the Brink: The Visual Arts in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia (1929–1941), eds. Marko Jenko and Beti Žerovc, Ljubljana: Moderna galerija, 2019, 445 pp. Catalogue. Exhibition. Exh.review: Bago (Artforum). [76] [77] (Slovenian)/(English)
  • Dejan Sretenović, Red Horizon: The Avant-Garde and Revolution in Yugoslavia, 1919-1932, trans. Katarina Radović, Novi Sad: kuda.org, 2021, 228 pp. (English)
  • more, more

Croatia[edit]

Writings (selection)
  • Ljubomir Micić, Ivan Goll and Bosko Tokin, "Manifest Zenitizma" [Zenithist Manifesto], Zenit no. 1, Zagreb, 1921. [78]
  • Branko Ve Poljanski, "Manifesto", Svetokret, 1921.
  • Ljubomir Micić, "Man and Art", Zenit, 1921.
  • Ljubomir Micić, "The Spirit of Zenithism", Zenit, 1921.
  • Ivan Goll, "Expressionism is Dying", Zenit, 1921.
  • Ljubomir Micić, "Šimi na groblju latinske četvrti, Zenitistički Radio-Film od 17 sočinenija" [Shimmy at the Latin Quarter Graveyard, Zenitist Radio-Film in 17 Parts], Zenit, 1922. In his prose text, Micić used constructivist and montage principles of cinema. He christened this new narrative structure "radio-film".
  • Ljubomir Micić, "A Categorical Imperative of the Zenithist School of Poetry", in The Rescue Car, 1922.
  • Ljubomir Micić, Zenithism as the Balkan Totalizer of New Life, manifesto, Zenit, 1923.
  • Drago Ibler, "Group Zemlja Manifesto", 22 May 1929. [79]
  • Traveleri, manifesto, 1930
Literature
  • Jadranka Vinterhalter (ed.), Prodori avangarde u hrvatskoj umjetnosti prve polovice 20.stoljeca / Flashes od avant-garde in the croatian art of the first half of the 20th century, Zagreb: MSU, 2007. [80]
  • Darko Šimičić, "Strategije u borbi za novu umjetnost. Zenitizam i dada u srednjoeuropskom kontekstu", in Moderna umjetnost u Hrvatskoj, 1898.-1975., Zagreb: Institut za povijest umjetnosti, 2012, pp 40-65. (Croatian)
  • Daina Glavočić, "D’Annunzio i riječki futurizam", in Moderna umjetnost u Hrvatskoj, 1898.-1975., Zagreb: Institut za povijest umjetnosti, 2012, pp 66-89. (Croatian)

Serbia[edit]

Literature
  • Jelena Bogdanović, Lilien Filipovitch Robinson, Igor Marjanović (eds.), On the Very Edge: Modernism and Modernity in the Arts and Architecture of Interwar Serbia (1918-1941), Leuven University Press, 2014. [81] (English)
  • more, more

Slovenia[edit]

Writings (selection)
  • 1920, poet Anton Podbevšek develops his program along anarchist proletcult lines for the journal Rdeči pilot.
  • Avgust Černigoj, "Greetings!", tank, 1927.
  • Mirko Polić, "Marij Kogoj's Black Masks", tank, 1927.
  • Ferdo Delak, "Theater Co-op", tank, 1927.
  • Avgust Černigoj, "Tank Manifesto", tank, 1927.
  • Ferdo Delak, The Modern Stage, manifesto. [82]
  • Avgust Černigoj, "The Constructivist Group in Trieste", tank, 1927.
Literature
  • Peter Krečič, "Avgust Černigoj and His Constructivism: A Memoir", Leonardo Vol. 15, No. 3 (Summer, 1982), pp. 215-218. [83]
  • Andrej Hrausky, "Yugoslavia. Bauhaus students: Avgust Cernigoj", Centropa 3 (2003) 1
  • Toshino Iguchi, "Avant-garde Design Beyond Borders. The Slovenian Constructivist Avgust Černigoj", 2008. [84]
  • Tomaž Toporišič, " The Slovene historical avant-garde and Europe in crisis ", Theatralia 25:1, 2022, pp 65-86.

Bosnia and Herzegovina[edit]

  • Heide Frensel, "Yugoslavia. Bauhaus students: Selman Selmanagić", Centropa 3 (2003) 1

Romania[edit]

Writings (selection)
  • Marinetti’s Futurist Manifesto published in Romanian in Craiova in a local newspaper (Democratia), on the same day (20 February 1909) as in the Parisian Le Figaro.
  • Marcel Janco, "Notes on Painting", Contimporanul, 1922.
  • Marcel Janco, "Art Notes", Contimporanul, 1924.
  • Ilarie Voronca, "Victor Brauner", 75HP, 1924.
  • Ion Vinea, "Activist Manifesto to the Youth" [Manifest activist către tinerime], Contimporanul 46, May 1924.
  • Ilarie Voronca, "Aviograma", 75HP, Oct 1924. [85] [86]
  • Ilarie Voronca. Untitled statement, 75HP, 1924.
  • Victor Brauner and Ilarie Voronca, "Pictopoetry", manifesto, 75HP, Oct 1924.
  • Ilarie Voronca, "Assessments", Punct, 1924.
  • Scarlat Callimachi, "The Contimporanul Exhibition (Notes)", Punct, 1924.
  • Tudor Vianu, "The First Contimporanul International Exhibition", Miscarea literara, 1924.
  • Ilarie Voronca, "Marcel Janco", Punct, 1924.
  • Max Herman Maxy, "Visual Chrono-metering", Contimporanul, 1924.
  • Felix Aderca, "Conversations with Lucian Blaga", Miscorea literara, 1925.
  • Ilarie Voronca, "Gramatica" [Grammar], Punct, no. 6-7, Jan 1925.
  • Ilarie Voronca, "Voices", Punct, 1925.
  • Oscar Walter Cisek, "Expoziția internațională a revistei 'Contimporanul'", Gandirea 4:7 (15 January 1925), pp 218-220. (Romanian)
  • editors of Integral, "Man", Integral, Vol. 1, No. 1, March 1925.
  • Ilarie Voronca. "Surrealism and Integralism", Integral, 1925.
  • Mihail Cosma, "De la futurism la integralism" [From Futurism to Integralism], Integral, no. 6-7, Oct 1925.
  • Corneliu Michailescu, "Black Art", Integral, 1925.
  • Mililsa Petrascu, "Note about Sculpture", Contimporanul, 1925.
  • G. C. Jacques, "Initiation in the Mysteries of an Exhibition: The Sensational Pronouncements of Militsa Petrascu and Marcel Janco", Contimporanul, 1926.
  • Marcel Janco, "Cubism", Contimporanul, 1926.
  • Marcel Janco. "Coloring", Contimporanul, 1927.
  • Geo Bogza, "Urmuz", Urmuz, 1928.
  • more: [87], Julian Semilian, translator
Literature
  • "Moments in the Romanian Literary Avant-Garde", [88]
  • Petre Răileanu, "1922-1928. The Beginnings. Magazines and Manifestos. The Intellectual International. The Theorizing Machines. 75 HP – the New Start of the Romanian Avant-garde. Integralism and Synthesis. Synchronism and Internationalism", Plural Magazine 3, 1999. [89]
  • "The Romanian Avant-Garde", Plural Magazine 3, 1999. [90]
  • Ovid S. Crohmalniceanu, Evreii in miscarea de avangarda romaneasca, Hasefer Publishing House, Bucarest, 2001
  • Irina Livezeanu, "'From Dada to Gaga': The Peripatetic Romanian Avant-Garde Confronts Communism", 2005.
  • Sandqvist,Tom, Dada East : the Romanians of Cabaret Voltaire, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006
  • Dan Gulea, Gentlemen, Tovarishes, Comrades. A History of Romanian avant-garde, Paralela 45 Publishing, “Deschideri” Series, Piteşti, 2007, 484 pp. [91] [92] [93]
  • Andrei Oisteanu, "The Romanian Avant-Garde And Visual Poetry", in Dada East? The Romanians of Cabaret Voltaire, eds. Adrian Notz and E-cart.ro, Zurich: Cabaret Voltaire, and Bucharest: E-cart.ro, 2007; repr. in Exquisite Corpse. A Journal of Letters and Life, n.d. (English)
  • Contimporanul. Istoria unei reviste de avangarda?, Bucharest: Institutul Cultural Roman, 2007.
  • Irina Carabas, "Can Aesthetics Overcome Politics? The Romanian Avant-garde and its Political Subtexts", lecture for 'New Histories of Politics' a conference at Central European University, Budapest (18-20 May 2007). [94]
  • Roland Prügel, Im Zeichen der Stadt. Avantgarde in Rumänien 1920–1938, Cologne/Weimar/Vienna: Böhlau, 2008, 270 pp. (German). [95], Review.
  • Van dada tot surrealisme: Joodse avant-garde kunstenaars uit Roemenië, 1910-1938 / From Dada to Surrealism: Jewish Avant-Garde Artists from Romania, eds. Radu Stern and Edward van Voolen, Amsterdam: Joods Historisch Museum, 2011, 159 pp. Catalogue. (Dutch)/(English)
  • Irina Livezeanu, "Romania: 'Windows toward the West': New Forms and the 'Poetry of True Life'. Revista celor l'alti (1908); Insula (1912); Chemarea (1912); Contimporanul (1922-32); 75 HP (1924); Punct (1924-5); Integral (1925-8); Urmuz (1925); and unu (1928-33)", in The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines. Volume III, Europe 1880-1940, eds. Brooker, Bru, Thacker, and Weikop, Oxford University Press, 2013, pp 1157-1183.
Film
  • Radu Igazsag and Alexandru Solomon, Strigat in timpan [Shriek Into the Ear-Drum. A visual essay on Romanian avant-garde, 1916-1947], 1993. Film. [96] [97]

Bulgaria[edit]

  • Kiril Krastev (Кирил Кръстев), Vasil Petkov (Васил Петков), Nedyalko Gegov (Недялко Гегов), Totyu Brunekov (Тотю Брънеков), Manifest na druzhestvoto za borba protiv poetite [Манифест на Дружеството за борба против поетите], [Aug 1926], [4] pp, HTML, JPG [98] [99] [100]. [101] (Bulgarian)
    • "Manifest stowarzyszenia do walki przeciw poetom", trans. Wojciech Gałązka, in Bułgarskie programy i manifesty literackie, Kraków, 1983, pp 124-128. (Polish)
  • Wojciech Gałązka (ed.), Bułgarskie programy i manifesty literackie, Kraków, 1983. (Polish)
  • Haralampi G. Oroschakoff (ed.), BulgariaAvantgarde, Cologne: Salon, 1998, 240 pp, Issuu. On the occasion of the exhibition in Munich curated by Iara Boubnova. (German)
  • Виолета Русева, Манифести на българския авангардизъм, Велико Търново, 1995. (Bulgarian)
  • Иван Сарандев (ed.), Български литературен авангард. Антология, 2001. Review. (Bulgarian)
  • Milka Bliznakov, "Bulgaria. Bauhaus students: Niccola Diulgheroff", Centropa 3, 2003, p 1. (English)
  • Kiril Krastev (Кирил Кръстев), Manifesti, statii, eseta 1922-1939 [Манифести, статии, есета 1922-1939], ed. Ivo Milev, Sofia: Boian Penev (Боян Пенев), 2014, 407 pp, [102] [103] [104] (Bulgarian)

Lithuania[edit]

Writings
  • In 1913, the Vilnius daily Przegląd Wileński (No. 48-49) reprinted F. T. Marinetti’s Manifesto of Futurism.
  • Kairiūkštis' constructivist manifesto, in the catalogue of The New Art Exhibition, 1923
Literature
  • Juozas Pivoriunas, "A Lithuanian Individualist. The Art of M. K. Čiurlionis", Lituanus 11:4 (Winter 1965). [105]
  • Sandra Alvarez de Toledo, "Un ghetto à l’est. Wilno, 1931", Communications 79:1 (2006), pp 151-167. (French)
  • Viktoras Liutkus, "Lithuanian Art and the Avant-Garde of the 1920s: Vytautas Kairiūkštis and the New Art Exhibition in Vilnius", Lituanus, 2008. [106]
  • Viktoras Liutkus, "Vytauto Kairiūkščio (1890–1961) suprematistinė kūryba ir fotomontažai", Menotyra, 2008. [107]
  • Viktoras Liutkus, "Vytautas Kairiūkštis and Avant-garde Cinema", 2010. [108] partial translation
  • Vida Mažrimienė, "Vytautas Kairiūkštis: In the Field of Radical Changes", 2010. [109] partial translation

Estonia[edit]

Ukraine[edit]

  • Oleh S. Ilnytzkyj, "From under Imperial Eyes in Kyiv and Kharkiv Magazines", in The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines, vol. 3 (Europe, 1880-1940), New York: Oxford University Press, 2013, pp 1341-1362. [113]

Experimental film[edit]

East-Central Europe[edit]

Books, catalogues
  • Łukasz Ronduda, Florian Zeyfang (eds.), 1,2,3... Avant-Gardes: Film/Art between Experiment and Archive, Warsaw: Centre for Contemporary Art, and Berlin/New York: Sternberg, 2007, 224 pp. Publisher. (English)/(German)
  • Ana Janevski (ed.), As Soon as I Open My Eyes I See a Film. Experiment in the Art of Yugoslavia in the 1960s and 1970s, Warsaw: Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, 2010, 344 pp. Publisher. Distributor. Exhibition.
    • Kiedy rano otwieram oczy, widzę film. Eksperyment w sztuce Jugoslawii w latach 60. i 70., Warsaw: Muzeum Sztuki Nowoczesnej w Warszawie, 2011. Excerpt. (Polish)
  • Bojana Piškur, et al. (eds.), This Is All Film: Experimental Film in Yugoslavia 1951-1991 / Vse to je film: Eksperimentalni film v Jugoslaviji 1951-1991, Ljubljana: Museum of Modern Art, 2010, 154 pp. (English)/(Slovenian)
  • Pavle Levi, Cinema by Other Means, Oxford University Press, 2012, 224 pp.
  • Ksenya Gurshtein, Sonja Simonyi (eds.), Experimental Cinemas in State-Socialist Eastern Europe, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2022, 334 pp. Publisher. TOC. [116]
Journal issues
  • Studies in Eastern European Cinema 7(1): "Experimental Cinema in State Socialist Eastern Europe", eds. Ksenya Gurshtein and Sonja Simonyi, 2016. [117] (English)
Resources

Czech Republic[edit]

Slovakia[edit]

Documentary film
  • Osmičkári, dir. Miro Remo jr., 26 min, 2012. From the cycle Konzervy času. Dokument o filmových amatéroch združených koncom 70. rokov vo filmovom klube v Ladcoch. Jeho členovia, ktorým učaroval 8 mm film, sa po rokoch opäť stretávajú, konfrontujú niekdajšie sny a plány s aktuálnou realitou, premietajú si staré filmy. [123]

Hungary[edit]

Poland[edit]

Yugoslavia[edit]

Programs

Croatia[edit]

  • Hvorje Turkovic, "Croatian Avant-Garde Scene", Zagreb, 1993. [130]
  • Heiko Daxl, "Film and Video-art in Croatia. Fragmentary Sketches of a History and a Description of the Status Quo", August 1993. (English), (German)
  • Andrew J Horton, "Avant-garde Film and Video in Croatia" Central European Review (November 1998) [131] (English)
  • "Uncharted Serbia: The Avant-Garde of the Kino Clubs", film selection with an introduction, 2009. [132]
  • Branka Benčić, Diana Nenadić, Adriana Perojević, Splitska škola filma – 60 godina Kino kluba Split, 2012. With DVD. (in English/Croatian) [133] [134]

Serbia[edit]

  • Alternativni film u Beogradu od 1950. do 1990. godine [Elektronski izvor] : vreme kino klubova : zbornik priloga za buduća istraživanja / [priredio] Miroslav-Bata Petrović. - Novi Beograd : Dom kulture „Studentski grad“, Arhiv alternativnog filma i videa, 2009 (Beograd : Pink digital system). - 1 elektronski optički disk (DVD) : tekst, slika; 12cm. - (Biblioteka „Istorija alternativnog filma“), ISBN 978-86-7933-052-9.
  • "Uncharted Serbia: The Avant-Garde of the Kino Clubs", film selection with an introduction, 2009. [135]
  • Božidar Zečević, Srpska avangarda i film 1920-1932, Belgrade: Akademski filmski centar/Dom kulture Studentski grad, 2014, 390 pp. (Serbian)

Slovenia[edit]

Bosnia and Herzegovina[edit]

  • Amir Muratović, Slatka slast periferije: Enciklopedija Ivice Matića. [139]

Romania[edit]

Germany[edit]

  • Jürgen Bonk, Karl-Heinz Ruhberg, Greif zur Kamera. Amateurfilm und Filmamateure in der DDR, Leipzig: Zentralhaus der Kulturarbeit der DDR, 1970. (German)
  • Wolfgang Gersch, "Film in der DDR. Die verlorene Alternative", in Geschichte des deutschen Films, ed. Wolfgang Jacobsen, Anton Kaes, and Hans Helmut Prinzler, Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler, 1993, pp 323-364. (German)
  • Karin Fritzsche, Claus Löser (eds.), Gegenbilder. Filmische Subversion in der DDR 1976-1989. Texte Bilder Daten, Berlin: Janus, 1996, 180 pp. Also: VHS, 90 min. Excerpt. [140] Review. (German)
  • Jeannette Stoschek, Dieter Daniels (eds.), "Grauzone 8 mm. Materialien zum autonomen Künstlerfilm in der DDR [Material on the Autonomous Artist Film in the German Democratic Republic], Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2007, 118 pp. With DVD. Excerpt. [141] [142] (German)
  • Randall Halle, Reinhild Steingroever (eds.), After the Avant-Garde: German and Austrian Experimental Film, Camden House, 2008. [143] (English)
    • Claus Löser, "Media in the Interim: Independent Film in East Germany before and after 1989". [144]
  • Leska Krenz, "'Greif zur Kamera, Kumpel!' Recherchen zum Amateurfilm in der DDR", 2008. (German)
  • Super-8 filmmaking in GDR, Super8.log, 2008ff.
  • Seth Howes, Moving Images on the Margins: Experimental Film in Late Socialist East Germany, Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2019, 280 pp. Publisher. Reviews: Ward (Stud Eur Cinema), Smith (German Stud Rev), Heiduschke (German Hist), Fritzsch (ArtMargins). [145] [146] (English)

Estonia[edit]

  • Eva Näripea, "New Waves, New Spaces: Estonian Experimental Cinema of the 1970s", KinoKultura, 2010. [147]

Art and architecture[edit]

East-Central Europe[edit]

Action art, happening, performance, body art[edit]

East-Central Europe[edit]

Books
  • Aktuelle Kunst in Osteuropa, ed. Klaus Groh, Cologne: DuMont-Schauberg, 1972, 222 pp. One of first books to cover performance, conceptual, and mail art in Yugoslavia, Poland, Romania, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and the Soviet Union. Short introduction by the author followed by b&w photographs, artists’ statements, and a bibliography. (German)
  • Gender Check: A Reader. Art and Theory in Eastern Europe, eds. Bojana Pejić, ERSTE Foundation, and Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Vienna, Cologne: Buchhandlung Walther König, 2010, 416 pp. An extensive collection of texts that explicitly analyze visual arts created before and after 1989 in the 'other' Europe in terms of gender and feminist theories. Texts by Anna Alchuk, Branislava Andjelkovic, Edit András, Zdenka Badovinac, Ágnes Berecz, Lyudmila Bredikhina, Branislav Dimitrijevic, Hildtrud Ebert, Ewa Franus, Jana Geržová, Nataša Ilić, Eva Khachatryan, Katrin Kivimaa, Izabela Kowalczyk, Vjollca Krasniqi, Laima Kreivyte, Dejan Kršic, Paweł Leszkowicz, Suzana Milevska, Danica Minic, Olivia Niţiş, Aleksis Osmanis, Martina Pachmanová, Bojana Pejić, Piotr Piotrowski, Zora Rusinová, Angeli Sachs, Lydia Sklevicky, Vera Sokolová, Inga Šteimane, Maria Vassileva, Mirek Vodrážka. TOC. Project website. Publisher. [151]
  • Removed From the Crowd: Unexpected Encounters 1, eds. Ivana Bago and Antonia Majača with Vesna Vuković, Zagreb: BLOK & DeLVe, 2011, 312 pp. Considers comparative, transnational, conceptual and performance art in Latvia, Slovenia, Croatia, Hungary, Chile, Peru, Poland, and Romania. Among other essays, presents Bago and Majača on Yugoslavian experimental art of the 1960s and 1970s; Alina Serban on the Romania performance artist Geta Brătescu; Vesna Vuković on Croatian artists Sanja Iveković and Tomislav Gotovac; Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez on the Slovenian group IRWIN; and Lucian Gomoll and Lissette Olivares on Chilean conceptual and performance. (English)
  • Amy Bryzgel, Performing the East: Performance Art in Russia, Latvia and Poland since 1980, London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 2013, 303 pp. Contains three chapters: one on post-Soviet Russian identity focusing on Sergei Bugaev (aka Afrika) and Oleg Kulik; a second on Starix (2000–2004), the fake media star invented by the artist Gints Gabrāns, and The Bronze Man (1987–1992), a homeless man moving from Riga to Bremen and Helsinki, constructed by Miervaldis Polis; and a third chapter on gender performances by the Polish artists Zbigniew Libera and Katarzyna Kozyra. Video talk. Publisher. Reviews: Jeschke (Slovo), Cseh-Varga (Oxford Art J). (English)
  • Adam Czirak (ed.), Aktionskunst jenseits des Eisernen Vorhangs. Künstlerische Kritik in Zeiten politischer Repression, Bielefeld: transcript, 2019, 242 pp. [153] (German)
  • Corinna Kühn, Medialisierte Körper. Performances und Aktionen der Neoavantgarden Ostmitteleuropas in den 1970er Jahren, Vienna: Böhlau, 2020, 324 pp. Publisher. Reviews: Renz (ArtMargins), Drobe (Art East Central). (German)
Catalogues
  • Body and the East: from the 1960s to the Present, ed. Zdenka Badovinac, MIT Press, 1999, 192 pp. Exh. held at Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana, 7 Jul-27 Sep 1998. Chronicles art, especially that of performance and body artists, in central and eastern Europe, with short artist biographies of 80 artists. Essays by Joseph Backstein, Bojana Pejić, Iara Boubnova, Jurij Krpan, Ileana Pintilie, Kristine Stiles, Branka Stipančić, László Beke, Igor Zabel, a.o. [154] (English)/(Slovenian)
  • Gender Check: Femininity and Masculinity in the Art of Eastern Europe, ed. Bojana Pejić and Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Vienna, Cologne: Walther Koenig, 2009, 392 pp. Texts by Edit András, Keti Chukhrov, Branislav Dimitrijević, Katrin Kivimaa, Izabela Kowalczyk, Suzana Milevska, Martina Pachmanová, Bojana Pejić, Piotr Piotrowski, Zora Rusinová, Hedwig Saxenhuber, Georg Schöllhammer. Project website. Publisher. Exh. held at mumok, Vienna, 13 Nov 2009-14 Feb 2010; Zachęta, 19 Mar-13 Jun 2010. List of works. Review: Krüger (Ostblick). Symposium. [155] (English)
    • Gender Check. Rollenbilder in der Kunst Osteuropas, Vienna: mumok, 2009, 162 pp. TOC. [156] (German)
  • Left Performance Histories: Recollecting Artistic Practices in Eastern Europe, eds. Judit Bodor, Adam Czirak, Astrid Hackel, Beäta Hock, Andrej Mircev, and Angelika Richter, Berlin: neue Gesellschaft für bildene Kunst (nGbK), 2018, 205 pp. Text by Kata Benedek, Judit Bodor, David Crowley, Adam Czirak, Constanze Fritzsch, Astrid Hackel, Beata Hock, Jürgen Hohmuth, Roddy Hunter, Bojana Matejić, Andrej Mirčev, Angelika Richter, Elske Rosenfeld, Heike Roms, Branka Stipančić. TOC, Introduction. Publisher. Project website. Review: Bryzgel (CAA). (German)/(English)
  • Artists & Agents. Performancekunst und Geheimdienste, eds. Kata Krasznahorkai and Sylvia Sasse, Leipzig: Spector, 2019, 686 pp. [158] (German)
Journal issues
  • Centropa 14(1): "Performance Art in Central and Eastern Europe", eds. Amy Bryzgel and Pavlína Morganová, Jan 2014. [161] (English)
Book chapters, essays
  • Kathleen Reinhardt, "Persons and Objects Are to Be Removed from the Balcony: Artists Performing in Public and Private Spaces of Control during the Cold War", in Multiple Realities: Experimental Art in the Eastern Bloc, 1960s–1980s, ed. Pavel S. Pyś, Minneapolis, MN: Walker Art Center, 2023. Exhibition. (English)
  • Sven Spieker, "Taking It to the Street: Eastern European Art Demonstrations (Milan Knížák, Jiří Kovanda, Endre Tót, Mladen Miljanović, Ciprian Homorodean)", in Spieker, Art and Demonstration: A Revolutionary Recasting of Knowledge, MIT Press, Feb 2024. [166] (English)
Interviews

Czech Republic[edit]

Anthologies
  • České akční umění: Filmy a videa, 1956–1989. Soubor filmů a videí z let 1956–1989, eds. Pavlína Morganová, Terezie Nekvindová and Sláva Sobotovičová, Prague: VVP AVU, 2015, 3h14m. DVD anthology. [167]
Books
  • Igor Zhoř, Radek Horáček, Vladimír Havlík, Akční tvorba, Olomouc: Univerzita Palackého, 1991, 84 pp. Summary. University textbook. (Czech)
  • Pavlína Morganová, Akční umění, Olomouc: Votobia, 1999; 2nd ed., exp., Olomouc: J. Vacl, 2009. (Czech)
  • Barbora Klímová, Replaced, afterw. Tomáš Pospiszyl, Brno: self-published, 2006, 77 pp. Collection of new interviews with performance artists of the 1970s and 80s. (Czech)/(English)
  • Dokumentace umění, eds. Jan Krtička and Jan Prošek, Ústí nad Labem: Univerzita J. E. Purkyně, 2013, 133 pp. Proceedings from the conference held on 5 Dec 2012. With texts by Hana Buddeus, Vladimír Havlík, Jiří Kovanda, Jan Mlčoch, Tomáš Pospiszyl, Tomáš Ruller, and Miloš Šejn. (Czech)
  • Pavlína Morganová, Procházka akční Prahou. Akce, performance, happeningy 1949–1989, Prague: VVP AVU (Dokumenty), 2014. [168] (Czech)
  • Pavlína Morganová, Czech Action Art: Happenings, Actions, Events, Land Art, Body Art and Performance Art Behind the Iron Curtain, trans. Daniel Morgan, Prague: Karolinum, 2015, 288 pp. [169]. Reviews: Tomic (CritCom 2014), Kemp-Welch (Umění/Art). (English)
  • Vladimír Havlík (ed.), Akce a reakce: performativní aspekty v současném umění a umělecké výchově, Olomouc: Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci, 2015, 225 pp. (Czech)
  • Alena Rybníčková, Radek Chlup, Martin Pehal, Evelyne Koubková, Happening: mezi záměrem a hrou, Prague: Akademie múzických umění v Praze, 2015, 209 pp. (Czech)
  • Hana Buddeus, Zobrazení bez reprodukce? Fotografie a performance v českém umění sedmdesátých let 20. století, Prague: UMPRUM, 2017. Based on PhD dissertation. [170] [171] (Czech)
  • Alice Koubová, Eliška Kubartová (eds.), Terény performance, Prague: NAMU, 2021, 524 pp. Publisher. Review: Morganová (ArteActa). (Czech)
Catalogues
Journal issues
  • Sešity pro mladou literaturu 4(33): "Happening", Sep 1969. (Czech)
Book chapters, essays
  • Jaroslav Kořán, "Happening včera a dnes", Sešity pro mladou literaturu 1:4, 1966, pp 3-7. (Czech)
  • Jindřich Chalupecký, "Úzkou cestou", Výtvarné umění 16:5, 1966, pp 365-370. (Czech)
  • Jindřich Chalupecký, "Experimentální umění. Happeningy, events, de-koláže", Výtvarná práce 14:9, 12 May 1966, pp 1-7. (Czech)
  • Milan Knizak, "Happenings in Prague", Studio International, Oct 1966, pp 210-211. [175] (English)
  • Miloš Horanský, "Happening a jevištní prostor", Acta scaenographica 7:6, 1966-1967, pp 108-113. (Czech)
  • Pierre Restany, "Prague: Sisyphe sans Kafka serait Promethee", Domus 450, May 1967, pp 50-54. (French)
  • Vladimír Burda, "Fluxus-happening-event", Divadlo 1, 1967, pp 39-44. (Czech)
  • Jindřich Chalupecký, "Art, Insanity and Crime", Arts in Society 5(1): "Happenings and Intermedia", ed. Edward Kamarck, Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Extension, 1968, pp 104-108. [176] (English)
  • Vladimír Burda, "Happening ve smyčce", Výtvarná práce 16:15, 16 Aug 1968, pp 1, 3, 10. (Czech)
  • Vladimír Burda, "Exil & utopie. Osudy pražského happeningu II", Výtvarná práce 16:18, 25 Oct 1968, pp 10-11. (Czech)
  • Vladimír Burda, "Les happenings", Opus International 9, Paris, Dec 1968, pp 51-56. (French)
  • Jindřich Chalupecký, "Happening a spol.", Sešity pro literaturu a diskusy 4:33, Sep 1969, pp 13-16; repr. in Chalupecký, Cestou necestou, 1999, pp 93-108. (Czech)
  • Eugen Brikcius, "Chvála happeningu", Sešity pro literaturu a diskusy 4:33, Sep 1969, pp 25-26. (Czech)
  • Petr Štembera, "Events, Happenings and Land-Art in Czechoslovakia: A Short Information", Revista del Arte 7, Mayaguez: Universidad de Puerto Rico, Dec 1970, pp 35-39; repr., shortened, in Lucy R. Lippard, Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object from 1966 to 1972, New York: Praeger, 1973, pp 169-170; repr. in Vision 2, Oakland, CA: Crown Point Press, Jan 1976, pp 42-43. (English)
  • Jindřich Chalupecký, "Letter from Prague", Studio International, Jun 1971, pp 253, 255-257. (English)
  • Ivan Jirous, "Current Expressions in Contemporary Czech Art", Artscanada 160/161, Oct/Nov 1971, pp 62-65. (English)
  • Petr Rezek, "Setkání s akčními umělci", in Performance, [1977] (samizdat), pp 4-15; repr. in Rezek, Tělo, věc a skutečnost v současném umění, Prague: Jazzpetit, 1982, pp 95-102; repr. in Výtvarné umění 3 (1991), pp 78-80; repr. in České umění 1938-1989, eds. Jiří Ševčík, et al., Prague: Academia, 2001, pp 355-359; repr. in Rezek, Tělo, věc a skutečnost v umění šedesátých a sedmdesátých let, 2nd ed., Prague: Galerie Ztichlá klika, 2010, pp 116-124. (Czech)
  • František Šmejkal, "Návraty k přírodě", in Sborník památce Alberta Kutala, Prague, 1984 (samizdat), pp 20-31; repr. in Výběr zajímavostí z domova i ciziny, Brno, 1987 (samizdat); repr. in Výtvarná kultura 14:3, 1990, pp 15-21. Written 1981. (Czech)
  • Pavlína Morganová, "České akční umění šedesátých let v dobovém tisku", in Akce, slovo, pohyb, prostor. Experimenty v umění šedesátých let, ed. Vít Havránek, Prague: Galerie hl. města Prahy, 1999, pp 54-61. (Czech)
  • Marie Klimešová, "České výtvarné umění druhé poloviny 20. století: alternativa a underground, umění a společnost", in Alternativní kultura. Příběh české společnosti 1945–1989, ed. Josef Alan, Prague: Lidové noviny, 2001, pp 376-419. [177] (Czech)
  • Pavlína Morganová, "Umenie akcie 1965-1989", Profil 3, 2001, pp 6-15. [178] (Czech)
  • Jiří Valoch, "Umění akce, hnutí Aktual, happening", in Dějiny českého výtvarného umění VI/1, eds. Rostislav Švácha and Marie Platovská, Prague: Academia, 2007. (Czech)
  • Tomáš Pospiszyl, "Look Who’s Watching: Photographic Documentation of Happenings and Performances in Czechoslovakia", in 1968-1989: Political Upheaval and Artistic Change, eds. Claire Bishop and Marta Dziewańska, Warsaw: Museum of Modern Art, 2009, pp 74-87. Proceedings from the 2008 conference. (English)
  • Josef Ledvina, "České umění kolem roku 1980 jako pole kulturní produkce", Sešit 9, Prague: VVP AVU, 2010, pp 30-65. (Czech)
  • Pavlína Morganová, "Místa činu, akční umění 60. a 70. let", in Místa počinu: historie výstavních prostorů u nás, ed. Ondřej Horák, Prague: Komunikační prostor Školská 28, 2010, pp 53-62. (Czech)
  • Pavlína Morganová, "Problematika pojmů v českém akčním umění", Opuscula Historiae Artium 60 (2011), pp 30-41. (Czech)
  • Pavlína Morganová, "Možnosti interpretace akčního umění", in Wittlichovi. Sborník žáků k 80. narozeninám Petra Wittlicha, ed. Marie Rakušanová, Prague: Karolinum, 2012, pp 227-249. (Czech)
  • Pavlína Morganová, "Action! Czech Performance Art in the 1960s and 1970s", trans. John Comer, Centropa 14:1, Jan 2014. (English)
  • Tomáš Pospiszyl, "Politika intimity: Československá performance sedmdesátých let a její remaky", in Pospiszyl, Asociativní dějepis umění: poválečné umění napříč generacemi a médii, Prague: tranzit.cz, 2014. (Czech)
  • Hana Buddeus, "Fotografické podmínky happeningu", Sešit 16, Prague: VVP AVU, 2014, pp 18-36. (Czech)
Dissertations

Slovakia[edit]

Books
  • Andrea Bátorová, Aktionskunst in der Slowakei in den 1960er Jahren. Aktionen von Alex Mlynárčik, Lit Verlag, 2009, 408 pp. TOC. Based on author's 2007 dissertation. (German)
  • Zuzana Bartošová, Napriek totalite. Neoficiálna slovenská výtvarná scéna sedemdesiatych a osemdesiatych rokov 20. storočia, Bratislava: Kalligram, 2011, 360 pp. Commentary: Hrabušický & Macek (Profil). (Slovak)
Catalogues
  • 3SD, ed. Ján Budaj, Bratislava, [1981]; 2nd ed., 1988 (samizdat); repr., abbr., in "Samizdatové programové, teoretické a historické texty (výber)", ed. Radislav Matuštík, in Umenie akcie 1965-1989, ed. Zora Rusinová, Bratislava: Slovenská národná galéria, 2001, pp 267-277. (Slovak)
    • "Three Sunny Days", trans. Zuzana Flaskova, ed. Sven Spieker, post, New York: MoMA, 2018. Trans. of Foreword. [181] (English)
  • Transart Communication catalogues, Nové Zámky, 1988ff. (Slovak),(Hungarian)
  • Umenie akcie / Action Art 1965-1989, ed. Zora Rusinová, Bratislava: Slovenská Národná Galéria, 2001, 318 pp. With texts by Zora Rusinová, Gábor Hushegyi, Radislav Matuštík, Tomáš Štrauss, and Ivo Janoušek. (Slovak)
  • 1. otvorený ateliér, 1970-2020, ed. Daniela Čarná, Bratislava: Galéria 19, 2020, 87 pp. [182] [183] [184] (Slovak)
Journal issues
  • Profil 3(3): "Performance Art", ed. Michal Murin, Bratislava, Mar 1993, pp 1-15. With texts by RoseLee Goldberg, Michal Murin, Radislav Matuštík; interviews with Vladimir Kordos and Flatz. (Slovak)
Book chapters, essays
  • Tomáš Štrauss, "K otázke premeny 'umenia-diela' na 'umenie-čin'", Výtvarný život, 12:4, 1967, pp 146-151; repr., abbr., in Slovenské výtvarné umenie 1949-1989 z pohľadu dobovej literatúry, ed. Jana Geržová, Bratislava: Vysoká škola výtvarných umení, 2006, pp 168-173. (Slovak)
  • Tomáš Štrauss, Umenie dnes: pokus o kritickú esej, Bratislava: Vydavateľstvo politickej literatúry, 1968, pp 93-108. (Slovak)
  • Klaus Groh (ed.), Aktuelle Kunst in Osteuropa, Cologne: DuMont-Schauberg, 1972. Features documentation from selected artists. (German)
  • Tomáš Štrauss, "Tri modelové situácie súčasných umeleckých hier", in Štraus, Slovenský variant moderny, 1979 (samizdat); 2nd ed., Bratislava: Pallas, 1992. (Slovak)
  • Tomáš Štrauss, "Umenie kontestácie a kontestácia umenia", in Štraus, Slovenský variant moderny, 1979 (samizdat); repr., Výtvarný život 35:6, 1990, pp 17-26; repr. in Štraus, Slovenský variant moderny, 2nd ed., Bratislava: Pallas, 1992. (Slovak)
  • Geneviève Bénamou, L'Art aujourd'hui en Tchécoslovaquie, Goussainville: Benamou, 1979. Includes essays on Mlynárčik, Želibská, Sikora, Tóth, a.o. TOC. (French)
  • Radislav Matuštík, ...predtým. Prekročenie hraníc, 1964-1971, 1983 (samizdat); repr., Žilina: PGU, 1994. Written 1972-1983. [186] (Slovak)
  • Róbert Cyprich, "Ex alio loco", 1983 (samizdat); repr. in Radislav Matuštík, Terén: alternatívne akčné zoskupenie 1982-1987, Bratislava: Sorosovo centrum súčasného umenia, 2000, pp 136-150. (Slovak)
    • "Ex alio loco", trans. John Minahane, in Hot Art, Cold War: Southern and Eastern European Writing on American Art 1945-1990, eds. Claudia Hopkins and Iain Boyd Whyte, Routledge, 2020. Trans. of excerpt. [187] (English)
  • Tamara Archlebová, "Príspevok k problematike konceptuálneho umenia na Slovensku", in Súčasné výtvarné umenie, ed. Dagmar Srnenská, Bratislava, 1989, pp 98-132. (Slovak)
  • Mária Kovalčíková (ed.), "Skepsa kontra optimizmus", Výtvarný život 35:7, 1990, pp 1-10; cont., Výtvarný život 35:8, 1990, pp 1-12. (Slovak)
  • Jana Geržová, "Umenie akcie", Profil 1:13-14, 1991, pp 2-4. (Slovak)
  • Michal Murin, "Performance?", Profil 1:17-18, Bratislava, 1991. (Slovak)
  • Michal Murin, "San Francisco Performance Art", Profil 1:22, Bratislava, 1991. (Slovak)
  • Radislav Matuštík, "Vývoj na Slovensku", in Umění akce, ed. Vlasta Čiháková-Noshiro, Prague: Mánes, 1991, pp 12-15. Shortened reprint from a samizdat publication in Terén edition, autumn 1983. (Slovak)
  • Vlasta Čiháková-Noshiro, "Umění akce – umění žít", in Umění akce, ed. Vlasta Čiháková-Noshiro, Prague: Mánes, 1991, pp 16-28. (Czech)
  • Radislav Matuštík, "Performance?", Profil 3(3): "Performance Art", ed. Michal Murin, Bratislava, Mar 1993, pp 5-7. (Slovak)
  • Michal Murin, "Performance?", Profil 3(3): "Performance Art", ed. Michal Murin, Bratislava, Mar 1993, p 13. (Slovak)
  • Michal Murin, "Performance", Profil 3(3): "Performance Art", ed. Michal Murin, Bratislava, Mar 1993. (Slovak)
  • Tomáš Štrauss, Tri otázniky: od päťdesiatych k osemdesiatym rokom, Bratislava: Pallas, 1993. (Slovak)
  • Radislav Matuštík, "Návraty I-IV", Výtvarný život, 1994-1995. Series of articles. (Slovak)
  • Thomas Strauss, Zwischen Ost- und Westkunst. Von der Avantgarde zur Postmoderne. Essays (1970-1995), Munich: Scaneg, 1995, 336 pp. (German)
  • Ivan Jančár, "Happening a performance", in Šesťdesiate roky v slovenskom výtvarnom umení, ed. Zora Rusinová, Bratislava: Slovenská národná galéria, 1995, pp 232-252. (Slovak)
  • Zora Rusinová, "V mene syntézy umenia a života", in Šesťdesiate roky v slovenskom výtvarnom umení, ed. Rusinová, Bratislava: Slovenská národná galéria, 1995, pp 166-202. (Slovak)
  • Etienne Cornevin, "Základné pojmy k legende o umení dada v Bratislave", in Očami X: desať autorov o súčasnom slovenskom výtvarnom umení, ed. Zuzana Bartošová, Bratislava: Orman, and Európsky kultúrny klub na Slovensku, 1996, pp 147-180. (Slovak)
  • Ladislav Snopko, "Situacionizmus na Slovensku: kapitola z dejín apelatívneho umenia", in Očami X: desať autorov o súčasnom slovenskom výtvarnom umení, ed. Zuzana Bartošová, Bratislava: Orman, and Európsky kultúrny klub na Slovensku, 1996, pp 201-220. (Slovak)
  • "Rozhovor Zuzany Bartošovej s Pierrom Restanym", in Očami X: desať autorov o súčasnom slovenskom výtvarnom umení, ed. Zuzana Bartošová, Bratislava: Orman, and Európsky kultúrny klub na Slovensku, 1996, pp 183-200. (Slovak)
  • Eugénia Sikorová, "Umenie na okraji: poznámky k situácii slovenského výtvarného umenia v r. 1970-1990", in Prítomnosť minulosti, minulosť prítomnosti, eds. Jolana Kusá and Peter Zajac, Bratislava: Nadácia Milana Šimečku, 1996, pp 96-125. (Slovak)
  • Tomáš Štrauss, Provokácie: kritické rozhľady od Dunaja a Rýna, Bratislava: H & H (Hajko a Hajková), 1996. (Slovak)
  • Rachel Rosenbach (Michal Murin), "Performance na Slovensku a v Čechách", Ateliér 1:9, 1997, p 9. (Slovak)
  • Michal Murin, "Performance na Slovensku v 90. rokoch", in A.K.T., Brno: Dům umění, 1999. (Slovak)
  • Tomáš Štrauss, Utajená korešpondencia 1980-1998, Bratislava: Kalligram, 1999, 184 pp. [188] (Slovak)
  • Zuzana Bartošová, "Askéza privilegovaných: niekoľko poznámok k formovaniu neoficiálnej výtvarnej scény obdobia normalizácie na prelome 60. a 70. rokov", in Umenie Slovenska: jeho historické funkcie, Bratislava: SAV, 1999, pp 121-133. (Slovak)
  • Ivan Jančár, "Akčné umenie", in Slovník svetového a slovenského výtvarného umenia druhej polovice 20. storočia, ed. Jana Geržová, Bratislava: Profil, 1999. (Slovak)
  • Ivan Jančár, "Event", in Slovník svetového a slovenského výtvarného umenia druhej polovice 20. storočia, ed. Jana Geržová, Bratislava: Profil, 1999. (Slovak)
  • Ivan Jančár, "Happening", in Slovník svetového a slovenského výtvarného umenia druhej polovice 20. storočia, ed. Jana Geržová, Bratislava: Profil, 1999. (Slovak)
  • Ivan Jančár, "Performancia", in Slovník svetového a slovenského výtvarného umenia druhej polovice 20. storočia, ed. Jana Geržová, Bratislava: Profil, 1999. (Slovak)
  • Radislav Matuštík, "Umenie akcie", in Zora Rusinová et al., Dejiny slovenského výtvarného umenia – 20. storočie, Bratislava: Slovenská národná galéria, 2000, pp 163-169. (Slovak)
  • Radislav Matuštík, "Dva náčrty vývinu akcie", in Matuštík, Terén: alternatívne akčné zoskupenie 1982-1987, Bratislava: Sorosovo centrum súčasného umenia, 2000, pp 221-236. (Slovak)
  • Eugénia Sikorová, "Nástup jednej generácie", in Otvorený ateliér, eds. Marián Mudroch and Dezider Tóth, Bratislava: SCCA Slovensko, 2000, pp 10-30. (Slovak)
  • Michal Murin, "Performance Art in Slovakia in the 90s (From the Position of the Art-Form, through its Reflection to the (Co-Existence of Solitary Worlds)", Slaps Banks Plots 4, 2000. (English)
  • Michal Murin, "L´art de performance en Slovaquie - A partir d´une forme artistique et de sa réflexion vers la coexistence de mondes solitaires / Performance Art in Slovakia - From the Art-Form, and its Reflection Towards the Co-Existence of Solitary Worlds", in Art Action 1958-1998, ed. Richard Martel, Québec: Intervention, 2001, pp 454-457. (French)/(English)
  • Pavlína Morganová, "Umenie akcie 1965-1989", Profil 3, 2001, pp 6-15. Exh. review. [189] (Czech)
  • Gábor Hushegyi, "Actinart - medzinárodné sympózium", Profil 3, 2001, pp 40-47. (Slovak)
  • Lucia Gregorová-Stachová, "Akčné umenie", Dart 3:1-2, 2001, 45-51. (Slovak)
  • Eva Kapsová, "Aktuálnosť umenia akcie", Dart 1:3-4, 2001, 54-58. (Slovak)
  • Zuzana Bartošová, "Slovenská neoficiálna výtvarná scéna 70. a 80. rokov z aspektu literatúry a terminológie", in Cesty a príbehy moderného umenia 2, ed. Ľuba Belohradská, Bratislava: Združenie historikov moderného umenia, 2002, pp 24-57. (Slovak)
  • Mária Orišková, Dvojhlasné dejiny umenia, Bratislava: Petrus, 2002. (Slovak)
  • Zora Rusinová, "Umenie akcie", in Slovenské vizuálne umenie 1970-1985, ed. Aurel Hrabušický, Bratislava: Slovenská národná galéria, 2002, pp 189-208. (Slovak)
  • Zuzana Bartošová, "Neoficiálna výtvarná scéna na Slovensku: Medzi Chartou '77 a nežnou revolúciou", in Ladislav Snopko, Zuzana Bartošová, Dotyky a spojenia. 9. december 1985 - 17. november 1989, Bratislava: Orman, and GMB, 2002, pp 15-38. (Slovak)
  • Katarína Rusnáková, História a teória mediálneho umenia na Slovensku, Bratislava: VŠVU, 2006. (Slovak)
  • Andrea Bátorová, "Alternative Trends in Slovakia during the 1960s and Parallels to Fluxus", in Fluxus East: Fluxus Networks in Central Eastern Europe, Berlin: Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, 2007. Catalogue text. (English)
  • Lucia Gregorová-Stachová, "Umelci, ich telá a performance", in Osemdesiate: Postmoderna v slovenskom výtvarnom umení, 1985-1992, ed. Beata Jablonská, Bratislava: Slovenská národná galéria, 2009, pp 201-213. (Slovak)
  • Ján Kralovič, "Prechádzka ako situačná a komunikačná umelecká aktivita", in Ani spolu, ani bez sebe... Intermedialita v dějináh umění, eds. Filip Komárek and Michal Konečný, Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2010, pp 31-36; upd. as "Prechádzka ako komunitná a umelecká aktivita. Prechádzka ako možnosť stretávania sa a umeleckej komunikácie v okruhu bratislavskej neoficiálnej scény 70. rokov", in BAC: Bratislava Conceptualism / Bratislavský konceptualizmus, ed. Richard Gregor, Bratislava: Kunsthalle Bratislava, and Liptovský Mikuláš: Liptovská galéria Petra Michala Bohúňa, 2022. (Slovak)
  • Július Gajdoš, Od inscenace k instalaci, od herectví k performanci, Prague: Akademie múzických umění, and Kant, 2010. Publisher. (Czech)
  • Jana Oravcová, Ekonómie tela v umelecko-historických a teoretických diskurzoch, Bratislava: Slovart / VŠVU, 2011. (Slovak)
  • Ján Kralovič, "Nutnosť intenzívneho prežívania (Poznámky k akčnému umeniu v mestskom priestore na Slovensku v 70. rokoch 20. storočia)", in Umenie na Slovensku v historických a kultúrnych súvislostiach 2010, eds. Bernadeta Kubová and Ivan Godič, Trnava: Milan Uličný - BEN, 2011, pp 215-226. (Slovak)
  • Zora Rusinová, "Solidarity Born of Despair: Action Art in Slovakia during the Totalitarian Regime, 1970-1989", Centropa 14:1, Jan 2014. [190] (English)
  • Ján Kralovič, "Prekročiť prah privátneho: vybrané umelecké akcie v mestskom priestore v 90. rokoch 20. storočia na Slovensku", in Zborník prednášok o súčasnom výtvarnom umení II.: so zameraním na politické a angažované umenie, Nitra: Nitrianska galéria, 2015, pp 12-37. (Slovak)
  • Eva Fillová, "Divadlo a teatralita v kontexte (slovenského) vizuálneho umenia", Slovenské divadlo 63:3, 2015, pp 208-220. (Slovak)
  • Dáša Čiripová, "Play as Art of Survival", trans. Lucia Faltin, The Slovak Theatre 66:3, 2018, pp 296-310. (English)
  • Vladimír Beskid, "Druhý dych východu: neoficiálna scéna východného Slovenska 70.-80. rokov 20. storočia", in Po moderne: Metropola východu, 1945-1989, eds. Peter Tajkov and Dorota Kenderová, Košice: Východoslovenská galéria, 2019, pp 115-134. (Slovak)
Interviews
Booklets
Dissertations

See also publications on individual artists and events, i.e.: Alex Mlynárčik, Július Koller, Ľubomír Ďurček, Róbert Cyprich, Ján Budaj, Transmusic Comp., Michal Murin, József R. Juhász, Transart Communication, Studio erté, SNEH.

Hungary[edit]

Books
  • Júlia Klaniczay, Edit Sasvári (eds.), Törvénytelen avantgárd: Galántai György balatonboglári kápolnaműterme 1970-1973, Budapest: Artpool–Balassi, 2003, 459 pp. The first comprehensive publication on performance and conceptual art events between 1970 and 1973 at the Balatonboglár Chapel in Hungary, founded by the artist György Galántai, the sort of activities that would be banned from 1974 until 1990 in Hungary. Chronicles the abandoned chapel as a unique site for experimental art in Hungary during state socialism, and includes an extensive chronology, previously unpublished archival documents, photographs and texts, interviews, and a bibliography. [193] (Hungarian)
  • Az ebéd / The Lunch (in memoriam Batu kán): Happening Budapest H 1966, eds. Zsuzsa László and Tamás St.Turba, trans. Csaba Polonyi, Budapest: tranzit.hu, 2011, 56 pp. Makes available the so far unpublished documents of the first happening in Hungary, conducted in 1966. [194] [195] [196] (Hungarian)/(English)
  • Katalin Cseh-Varga, The Hungarian Avant-Garde and Socialism: The Art of the Second Public Sphere, Bloomsbury, 2022, 264 pp, EPUB. Publisher. (English)
Catalogues
Essays, dissertations

Poland[edit]

Anthologies
  • Performance – wybór tekstów, eds. Grzegorz Dziamski, Gajewski Henryk and Jan. St. Wojciechowski, Warsaw: Miodzieżowa Agencja Wydawnicza, 1984, 202+31 pp. (Polish)
Books
  • Alicja Kępińska, Nowa sztuka. Sztuka polska w latach 1945-1978, Warsaw: Auriga, 1981. (Polish)
  • Tadeusz Pawłowski, Happening, Warsaw, 1988. (Polish)
  • Sabine Folie (ed.), The Impossible Theater: Performativity in the Works of / Das unmögliche Theater: Performativität im Werk von Pawel Althamer, Tadeusz Kantor, Katarzyna Kozyra, Robert Kusmirowski and Artur Zmijewski, Nürnberg: Verlag für Moderne Kunst, 2005, 152 pp. Essays by Sabine Folie, Jaroslaw Suchan and Hanna Wroblewska. [197] (English)/(German)
  • Jan Przyłuski, Sztuka akcji. Dziesięć zdarzeń w Polsce, Słupsk: Bałtycka Galeria Sztuki Współczesnej, 2007, 82 pp. [198] (Polish)
  • Agnieszka Sosnowska, Performans oporu, Warsaw: Fundacja Nowej Kultury Bęc Zmiana, Centrum Sztuki Współczesnej Zamek Ujazdowski, and Instytut Kultury Polskiej Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, 2018, 226 pp. Excerpt. Publisher. (Polish)
Catalogues
Magazine issues
Book chapters, essays
Dissertations

East Germany[edit]

  • Angelika Richter, Das Gesetz der Szene: Genderkritik, Performance Art und zweite Öffentlichkeit in der späten DDR, Bielefeld: transcript, 2019, 408 pp. [200] [201] [202]

Yugoslavia[edit]

Croatia[edit]

  • Ivana Mance, "Performance Art Practices in Croatia from the Late 1960s through the late 1980s: An Essay in Genealogy", Centropa 14:1, Jan 2014. [206] (English)
  • Suzana Marjanić, Kronotop hrvatskoga performansa: od Travelera do danas, 3 vols., Zagreb : Udruga Bijeli val: Institut za etnologiju i folkloristiku: Školska knjiga, 2014, 2008 pp. TOC. [207] (Croatian)

Serbia[edit]

  • kuda.org (eds.), Omitted History, trans. Nebojša Pajić, Frankfurt am Main: Revolver, 2006, 134 pp. (Serbian)/(English)

Romania[edit]

Books
Essays
  • Ileana Pintilie, "Performance Art In Romania. Between gesture and ritual", in Crossroads in Central-Europe. Ideas, Themes, Methods and Problems of Contemporary Art and Art Criticism, ed. Katalin Keserü, Budapest: Egregia, 1996, p 147. (English)
  • Ileana Pintilie, "The Dilemmas of Artistic Transition in Post-Communism. Performance art in Romania at the Beginning of the '90s", in Zone 3 Catalogues, Timişoara, 2000; repr. in Periferic 4, Iaşi, 2000.
  • Ileana Pintilie, "Actionism in Romania in the 6th and 7th Decades", Balkon 2, Cluj, 2000. (English)
  • Ileana Pintilie, "Actionism in Romania in the 8th Decade", Balkon 3, Cluj, 2000. (English)
  • Ileana Pintilie, "Performance art in Romania in the '90s (Rumunska umetnost performanse devedesetih)", Artcontext, Apr 2001; repr. in Vrsac 1.
  • Ileana Pintilie, "Action Art in Romania Before and After 1989", Centropa 14:1, Jan 2014. (English)

Estonia[edit]

Latvia[edit]

  • Amy Bryzgel, "The Bronze Man and the Homeless Man: Performing Appearance in Latvia", in Bryzgel, Performing the East: Performance Art in Russia, Latvia and Poland since 1980, London and New York: IB Tauris, 2013, pp 100-156. (English)
  • Laine Kristberga, Līna Birzaka-Priekule, "From Micro-politics to Macro-politics: Performance Art in the Late Socialist Period in Latvia", Studies on Art and Architecture 3-4, Tallinn: Estonian Society of Art Historians and Curators, 2023, pp 168-192. [210] (English)

Ukraine[edit]

Visual poetry, Concrete poetry, Lettrism[edit]

Czech Republic[edit]

See also magazine Psí víno.

Slovakia[edit]

See also magazines Kloaka and Enter.

  • Zora Rusinová, "Experimentálna poézia", in Slovník svetového a slovenského výtvarného umenia druhej polovice 20. storočia, Bratislava: Kruh súčasného výtvarného umenia, 1999, pp 75-79. Encyclopedic entry. (Slovak)
  • Zora Rusinová, "Lettrizmus", in Slovník svetového a slovenského výtvarného umenia druhej polovice 20. storočia, Bratislava: Kruh súčasného výtvarného umenia, 1999. Encyclopedic entry. (Slovak)
  • František Štraus, Štefan Moravčík, Princípy hry v slovenskej poézii, Martin: Matica slovenská, 2001. (Slovak)
  • Miloš Štofko, "Experimentálna poézia", in Štofko, Od abstrakcie po živé umenie. Slovník pojmov moderného a postmoderného umenia, Bratislava: Slovart, 2007, pp 59-62. Encyclopedic entry. (Slovak)
  • Katarína Ihringová, "Experimentálna poézia a jej podoby v slovenskom vizuálnom umení", Slovenská literatúra 58:4, Bratislava: Slovenská akadémia vied, 2011, pp 317-330. [216] (Slovak)
  • Katarína Ihringová, Vzťah slova a obrazu v slovenskom vizuálnom umení, Trnava: Pergamen, 2012. (Slovak)
  • Bogumiła Suwara, Zuzana Husárová (eds.), V sieti strednej Európy: nielen o elektronickej literatúre, Bratislava: SAP & Ústav svetovej literatúry, 2012, 312 pp. (Slovak),(Czech)
  • Michal Rehúš, Jaroslav Šrank, "Nesystematický návod na použitie slovenskej experimentálnej poézie", in V sieti strednej Európy: nielen o elektronickej literatúre, eds. Bogumila Suwara and Zuzana Husárová, Bratislava: SAP a Ústav svetovej literatúry, 2012, pp 241-264. (Slovak)
  • Ha!art 42(2): "Czeska i słowacka literatura nowomedialna", Kraków: Korporacja Ha!art, 2013. (Polish)
  • Michal Jareš, Veronika Ráczová, Ľubica Schmarcová, "Experimentálna línia", in Hľadanie súčasnosti. Slovenská literatúra začiatku 21. storočia, Bratislava: Literárne informačné centrum, 2014. [217] (Slovak)
  • Enter 24: "Kreatívny manuál pre slovenskú nekonvenčnú poéziu", ed. Michal Murin, Košice: Dive Buki, Dec 2015, 90 pp. [218] (Slovak)
  • Michal Murin, "Triangulačné body nekonvenčnej poézie na Slovensku", in Milan Adamčiak, Archív II (KOPO): konkrétna poézia 1964-1972, Košice: Dive Buki, 2016, pp 12-85. (Slovak)
  • Peter Zajac, "Optická poézia Milana Adamčiaka v kontexte slovenskej literatúry", in Milan Adamčiak, Archív II (KOPO): konkrétna poézia 1964-1972, Košice: Dive Buki, 2016, pp 294-326. (Slovak)
  • Zuzana Husárová, "Slovenská elektronická literatúra", World Literature Studies 3:8, 2016, pp 57-77. (Slovak)

Poland[edit]

  • Tadeusz Sławek, Między literami. Szkice o poezji konkretnej [Between Letters: Sketches on Concrete Poetry], Katowice: Wydawnictwo Dolnośląskie, 1989. (Polish)
  • Piotr Rypson, Obraz slowa historia poezji wisualnej, Warsaw, 1989, 373 pp. (Polish)
  • Małgorzata Dawidek Gryglicka, Historia tekstu wizualnego. Polska po 1967 roku, Kraków: Korporacja Ha!art, 2012, 752 pp. Review: Kearns (Enclave). (Polish)

Yugoslavia[edit]

Romania[edit]

  • Andrei Oisteanu, "The Romanian Avant-Garde And Visual Poetry", in Dada East? The Romanians of Cabaret Voltaire, eds. Adrian Notz and E-cart.ro, Zurich: Cabaret Voltaire, and Bucharest: E-cart.ro, 2007; repr. in Exquisite Corpse. A Journal of Letters and Life, n.d. (English)

East Germany[edit]

  • Liselotte Gimpel, "Concrete" Poetry from East and West Germany: The Language of Exemplarism and Experimentalism, Yale University Press, 1977, xvi+268 pp. Reviews: Butler (J Eur Stud), O'Swald (GDR Bulletin), Weimar (GDR Bulletin). (English)

Conceptual art[edit]

East-Central Europe[edit]

  • Klaus Groh (ed.), Aktuelle Kunst in Osteuropa, Cologne: DuMont-Schauberg, 1972, 222 pp. One of first books to cover performance, conceptual, and mail art in Yugoslavia, Poland, Romania, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and the Soviet Union. Short introduction by the author followed by b&w photographs, artists’ statements, and a bibliography. Archive. (German)
  • Tony Godfrey, Conceptual Art, London: Phaidon, 1998, pp 264-275, IA. (English)
  • László Beke, "Conceptualist Tendencies in Eastern European Art", in Global Conceptualism: Points of Origin 1950-1980s, eds. Jane Ferver, Luis Camnitzer and Rachel Weiss, New York: Queens Museum of Art, 1999, pp 41-51. TOC. Exh. held at Queens Museum, New York, 28 Apr-29 Aug 1999; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, 19 Dec 1999–5 Mar 2000; Hayden Hall MIT, 24 Oct-31 Dec 2000. Exh. review: Meyer (Artforum), Johnson (NYT). (English)
  • in Conceptual Art, ed. Peter Osborne, London: Phaidon, 2002. (English)
  • Miško Šuvaković, "Konceptualna umjetnost", in Šuvaković, Pojmovnik suvremene umjetnosti, Zagreb: Horetzky, 2005. (Croatian)
  • Piotr Piotrowski, "The Critique of Painting: Towards the Neo-avant-garde", "Mapping the Neo-avant-garde, c. 1970", "Conceptual Art between Theory of Art and Critique of the System", chs. 6, 7 & 8 in Piotrowski, In the Shadow of Yalta: Art and the Avant-garde in Eastern Europe, 1945-1989, trans. Anna Brzyski, London: Reaktion Books, 2009, pp 178-237, n454-458, 241-314, n458-466, 315-340, n467-469. (English)
  • Zdenka Badovinac, Eda Čufer, Cristina Freire, Boris Groys, Charles Harrison, Vít Havránek, Piotr Piotrowski, Branka Stipančić, "Conceptual Art and Eastern Europe: Part I", e-flux 40, Dec 2012; Part 2, e-flux 41, Jan 2013. Based on a conference organised by Zdenka Badovinac in Ljubljana, 2007. (English)
  • My Sweet Little Lamb (Everything We See Could Also Be Otherwise), eds. What, How & for Whom/WHW and Kathrin Rhomberg, Zagreb: What, How & for Whom/WHW, 2017, 167 pp; new ed., exp., eds. Emily Pethick, Kathrin Rhomberg, What, How & for Whom/WHW, and Jill Winder, Berlin: Sternberg Press, and Vienna: Kontakt Collection, Mar 2023, 456 pp. Based on a series of exhibition episodes based on the Kontakt Collection and dedicated to the artist Mladen Stilinović, held in Zagreb, 4 Nov 2016–8 May 2017, and The Show Room, London, Jun 2017. Texts in exp. ed. by Branislav Dimitrijević, Miguel A. López, Oxana Timofeeva, Marina Vishmidt. Publisher. (English)

Poland[edit]

  • Urszula Czartoryska, Od pop-artu do sztuki konceptualnej, Warsaw, 1973. (Polish)
  • Stefan Morawski, "Konceptualizm obcy i rodzimy", Projekt 3 (1975), pp 26-33 (Polish)
  • Urszula Czartoryska, Od pop-artu do sztuki konceptualnej, Warsaw, 1976. (Polish)
  • Alicja Kępińska, Nowa sztuka. Sztuka polska w latach 1945-1978, Warsaw: Auriga, 1981. (Polish)
  • Piotr Krakowski, "O sztuce konceptualnej", ch 6 in Krakowski, O sztuce nowej i najnowszej, Warsaw: PWN, 1981, pp 112-134. (Polish)
  • Grzegorz Dziamski, "Konceptualizm", in Od awangardy do postmodernizmu. Encyklopedia kultury polskiej XX wieku, ed. Dziamski, Warsaw, 1996, pp 369ff. (Polish)
  • Refleksja konceptualna w sztuce polskiej: doświadczenia dyskursu, 1965-1975 / Conceptual Reflection in Polish Art: Experiences of Discourse: 1965-1975, eds. Paweł Polit and Piotr Woźniakiewicz, Warsaw: Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, 2000. Essays by Alicja Kepinska, Andrzej Kostolowski, Pawel Polit; interviews with Andrzej Turowski and Jerzy Ludwinski. Preface (EN). Exhibition 1. Exhibition 2. Exh.review: Lum & Szymczyk (ArtMargins EN 1999). Book review: Murawska-Muthesius (ArtMargins 2003 EN). (Polish)/(English)
  • Martin Patrick, "Polish Conceptualism of the 1960s and 1970s: Images, Objects, Systems and Texts", Third Text 96: "Socialist Eastern Europe", Spring 2001, pp 25-45. (English)
  • Autonomiczny ruch konceptualny w Polsce, ed. Zbigniew Warpechowski, Lublin: Galeria Stara BWA Lublin, 2002. Catalogue. (Polish)
  • Grzegorz Dziamski, "Spór o sztukę konceptualną w Polsce", Dyskurs 7 (2007), pp 194-224. (Polish)
  • Luiza Nader, "Sztuka konceptualna w Polsce", Culture.pl, 20 Nov 2007. (Polish)
  • Luiza Nader, Konceptualizm w PRL, Warsaw: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego & Fundacja Galerii Foksal, 2009, 429 pp. Based on dissertation (2007). Reviews: Sienkiewicz (Dwutygodnik 2009), Szewczyk (Frieze 2010 EN), Kemp-Welch (ArtMargins 2010 EN). (Polish)
  • Łukasz Ronduda, Sztuka polska lat 70. awangarda, Jelenia Góra: Polski Western, and Warsaw: CSW Zamek Ujazdowski, 2009, 379 pp. Editorial concept: Piotr Uklański. [226] [227] (Polish)
    • Polish Art of the 70s, Jelenia Góra: Polski Western, and Warsaw: CCA Zamek Ujazdowski, 2009, 379 pp. Reviews: Szewczyk (Frieze 2010), Kemp-Welch (ArtMargins 2010). (English)
  • Wokół sporów o definicję przedmiotu sztuki. Miejsce konceptualizmu, kontekstualizmu i sztuki pojęciowej w historii sztuki najnowszej, ed. Bogusław Jasiński, Gorzów Wielkopolski: Galeria Sztuki Najnowszej, 2009. (Polish)
  • Grzegorz Dziamski, Przełom konceptualny i jego wpływ na praktykę i teorię sztuki, Poznań: Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM, 2010, 294 pp. Chapter 6. [228] (Polish)
  • Sztuka i Dokumentacja 6: "Sztuka jako idea, ludzie, czas. W kręgu polskiego konceptualizmu", Łódź, 2012. (Polish)
  • Permafo: monografia galerii i ruchu artystycznego, ed. Anna Markowska, Wrocław: Muzeum Współczesne Wrocław, 2012, 496 pp. Lead essay. [229] (Polish)
  • Łukasz Guzek, "Performatywność sztuki konceptualnej", Dyskurs 17 (2014), pp 189-219. (Polish)
  • Klara Kemp-Welch, "NET: An Open Proposition", e-flux 98, Feb 2019. (English)

Slovakia[edit]

  • Tomáš Štrauss, Slovenský variant moderny, 1979 (samizdat); 2nd ed., Bratislava: Pallas, 1992, pp 55ff. (Slovak)
  • Radislav Matuštík, ...Predtým. Prekročenie hraníc, 1964-1971, 1983 (samizdat); repr., Žilina: Považská galéria umenia, 1994, 27ff. [232] (Slovak)
  • Tamara Archlebová, "Príspevok k problematike konceptuálneho umenia na Slovensku", in Súčasné výtvarné umenie, ed. Dagmar Srnenská, Bratislava, 1989, pp 98-132. (Slovak)
  • Aurel Hrabušický, "Počiatky alternatívneho umenia na Slovensku", in Šesťdesiate roky v slovenskom výtvarnom umení, ed. Zora Rusinová, Bratislava: Slovenská národná galéria, 1995, pp 218-251. (Slovak)
  • Jana Geržová, "Konceptuálne umenie", in Slovník svetového a slovenského výtvarného umenia druhej polovice 20. storočia, ed. Jana Geržová, Bratislava: Profil, 1999, pp 145-149. (Slovak)
  • Jana Geržová, "Konceptuálne umenie", in Dejiny slovenského výtvarného umenia 20. storočia, ed. Zora Rusinová, Bratislava: SNG, 2000, pp 170-178. (Slovak)
  • Marián Mudroch, Dezider Tóth (eds.), 1. otvorený ateliér, Bratislava: SCCAN, 2000, 143 pp. (Slovak)
  • Konceptuálne umenie na zlome tisícročí / Conceptual Art at the Turn of Millenium / Konceptuális művészet az ezredfordulón. International Symposium, October 15-16, 2001, Budapest/Bratislava, eds. Jana Geržová and Erzsébet Tatai, Bratislava: Slovak Section of AICA, and Budapest: AICA Section Hungary, 2002, 174 pp. Symposium proceedings. (Slovak),(English),(Hungarian)
    • Jana Geržová, "Mýty a realita konceptuálneho umenia na Slovensku" / "Myths and Reality of the Conceptual Art in Slovakia", pp 22-51. (Slovak)/(English)
  • Jana Geržová, "N(e)oklasický koncept", in Na križovatke kultúr? Zborník z medzinárodného sympózia, ed. Zora Rusinová, Bratislava: Slovenská národná galéria, 2002, pp 107-118. (Slovak)
  • Dušan Brozman, Boris Kršňák, Zo slovenského konceptuálneho umenia, Budapest: Slovenský Inštitút Budapešť, and Zvolen: Oznka, 2008. Catalogue. (Slovak)
  • Zuzana Bartošová, Napriek totalite. Neoficiálna slovenská výtvarná scéna sedemdesiatych a osemdesiatych rokov 20. storočia, Bratislava: Kalligram, 2011, 360 pp. Commentary: Hrabušický & Macek (Profil 2012). (Slovak)
  • Beata Jablonská, "Spor o slovenské 'More'", Sešit pro umění, teorii a příbuzné zóny 15, Prague: VVP AVU, 2013, pp 6-19. (Slovak)
  • Tomáš Pospiszyl, "Národní konceptualizmus. Obrozenecké motivy v díle Stana Filka a Júliuse Kollera", ch 3 in Pospiszyl, Asociativní dějepis umění: poválečné umění napříč generacemi a médii, Prague: tranzit.cz, 2014, pp 81-121. (Czech)
  • Miękkie kody. Tendencje konceptualne w sztuce słowackiej / Soft Codes: Conceptual Tendencies in Slovak Art, Wrocław: Muzeum Współczesne Wrocław, 2015, 224 pp. Catalogue. [233], Exhibition. (Polish)/(English)
  • Daniel Grúň, Christian Höller, Kathrin Rhomberg (eds.), White Space in White Space / Biely priestor v bielom priestore, 1973-1982. Stano Filko, Miloš Laky, Ján Zavarský, Vienna: Schlebrügge, 2021, 228 pp. Project archive. Publisher. [242] [243] (English)
  • Denisa Kujelová (ed.), ČS koncept 70. let, Brno: Fait Gallery, 2021, 363 pp. Catalogue. [244] [245] [246] (Czech),(Slovak)
  • Richard Gregor (ed.), BAC: Bratislava Conceptualism / Bratislavský konceptualizmus, Bratislava: Kunsthalle Bratislava, and Liptovský Mikuláš: Liptovská galéria Petra Michala Bohúňa, 2022, 480 pp. Proceedings from the conference Could We Speak of Bratislava Conceptualism (2015). Essays incl.: Gregor, Gregor, Kralovič. [247] (English)/(Slovak)

Hungary[edit]

  • Elképzelés: A magyar koncept művészet kezdetei. Beke László gyűjteménye, 1971, Budapest: Open Structures Society & tranzit. hu, 2008. (Hungarian)
  • Bookmarks: Hungarian Neo-avant-garde and Post-conceptual art from the Late 1960s to the Present / Bookmarks. Neo-Avantgarde und postkonzeptuelle Positionen in der ungarischen Kunst von den 1960ern bis heute, ed. Katalin Székely, Berlin: Distanz, 2015, 88 pp. Catalogue. [253] (English)/(German)
  • Cristina Cuevas-Wolf, Isotta Poggi (eds.), Promote, Tolerate, Ban: Art and Culture in Cold War Hungary, Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2018, 160 pp. Fehér's essay. [256] (English)
  • 1971 – Párhuzamos különidők, eds. Dóra Hegyi, Zsuzsa László, Zsóka Leposa, and Enikő Róka, Budapest: tranzit.hu, 2022. Exhibition. Exhibition. Publisher. (Hungarian)
    • 1971 – Parallel Nonsynchronism, eds. Dóra Hegyi and Eszter Szakács, Budapest: tranzit.hu, and Bucharest: PUNCH, 2022, 332 pp. Publisher. Publisher. Review: Świtek (Art East/Central). Exh. review: Laszlo & Roka (mezosfera). (English)

Czech Republic[edit]

Yugoslavia[edit]

Croatia[edit]

Serbia[edit]

Slovenia[edit]

  • Konceptualna umetnost 60-ih in 70-ih let, eds. Ljubica Klančar, Lilijana Stepančič, and Igor Španjol, Ljubljana: Galerija ŠKUC, 1997, 70 pp. [261] (Slovenian)
  • R., "Konceptualizem", Pojmovnik slovenske umetnosti 1945-2005, Ljubljana: Raziskovalni inštitut ALUO, n.d. (Slovenian)

Romania[edit]

Baltics[edit]

  • Thinking Pictures: Conceptual Art from Moscow and the Baltics, eds. Anu Allas and Liisa Kaljula, Tallinn: Estonian Art Museum, 2022, 208 pp. Exhibition. Exh. review: Janušová (Artmargins). [264] (Estonian)/(English)
  • Ieva Astahovska, "Struktuurid ja mudelid, absurd ja paradoksid. Kontseptuaalse kunsti katsetused Lätis 1970. ja 1980. aastatel" / "Structures and Models, Absurdities and Paradoxes: Conceptual Art Explorations in Latvia in the 1970s and 1980s", Eesti Kunstimuuseumi Toimetised / Proceedings of the Art Museum of Estonia 13, Tallinn: KUMU, 2023, pp 85-99, 100-126. [265] (Latvian)/(English)

Geometric abstraction, Neo-constructivism, Op art, Kinetic art[edit]

East-Central Europe[edit]

Czech Republic[edit]

Slovakia[edit]

  • Dušan Konečný, Kinetizmus, Bratislava: Pallas, 1970, 88 pp. [271] (Slovak)
  • Vladimir Maleković, "Suvremena češka i slovačka avangarda", Život umjetnosti 18, Zagreb, 1972, pp 68-78. (Serbo-Croatian)
  • Vladimír Beskid, "Geometrická abstrakcia", in Slovník svetového a slovenského výtvarného umenia druhej polovice 20. storočia, ed. Jana Geržová, Bratislava: Profil, 1999. (Slovak)
  • Katarína Bajcurová, "Kinetické umenie", in Slovník svetového a slovenského výtvarného umenia druhej polovice 20. storočia, ed. Jana Geržová, Bratislava: Profil, 1999. (Slovak)
  • Jana Geržová, "Mobil", in Slovník svetového a slovenského výtvarného umenia druhej polovice 20. storočia, ed. Jana Geržová, Bratislava: Profil, 1999. (Slovak)
  • Katarína Bajcurová, "Op-art", in Slovník svetového a slovenského výtvarného umenia druhej polovice 20. storočia, ed. Jana Geržová, Bratislava: Profil, 1999. (Slovak)
  • Ľuba Belohradská, "Konštruktívne tendencie v zrkadle slovenskej umenovedy", MADI ap 4, Mar 2002. (Slovak)/(Hungarian)
  • Ľuba Belohradská, Eva Trojanová (eds.), Hranice geometrie / Borders of Geometry, Petum, 2009, 429 pp. [272] (Slovak)/(English)

Poland[edit]

Hungary[edit]

Yugoslavia[edit]

Croatia[edit]

See also New Tendencies.

Serbia[edit]

Romania[edit]

Latvia[edit]

Fluxus, intermedia, sound art[edit]

East-Central Europe[edit]

  • Fluxus East: Fluxus-Netzwerke in Mittelosteuropa / Fluxus East: Fluxus Networks in Central Eastern Europe, ed. Petra Stegmann, Berlin: Kuenstlerhaus Bethanien, 2007, 288 pp. Exh. catalogue; exh. held at Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, 4 Sep-4 Nov 2007. Contains artists' biographies, an extensive illustrated chronology divided in sections, including an “Overall Survey of Fluxus Events in Central Eastern Europe (1962–1989), “Fluxus Concerts,” “Individual Exhibitions and Performances,” “Exhibitions and Festivals,” “Mieko Shiomi’s ‘Spatial Poems,’” “Nine Global Events,” and “Fluxus East and West,” and essays by Eric Andersen, Andrea Bátorová, Milan Knížák, Pavlína Morganová, Luiza Nader, Maria Anna Potocka, Tamás St. Auby, Petra Stegmann, and Emmett Williams. [277] [278] (German)/(English)
  • "The Lunatics are on the Loose...": European Fluxus Festivals, 1962-1977, ed. Petra Stegmann, Potsdam: Down With Art!, 2012, 591 pp. Exh. catalogue. Extensive documentation of 32 selected European Fluxus events in Aachen, Aberystwyth, Amsterdam, Berlin, Budapest, Copenhagen, Düsseldorf, London, Madrid, Nizza, Oslo, Paris, Prague, Poznan, Rotterdam, Scheveningen, Stockholm, Vilnius, Wiesbaden, Wuppertal. [279] [280] (English)
  • The Freedom of Sound: John Cage Behind the Iron Curtain, ed. Katalin Székely, Budapest: Ludwig Múzeum - Kortárs Művészeti Múzeum, 2013. Exh. catalogue. Publisher. Exhibition. Exh. brochure. (English)
  • Petra Stegmann, "Fluxus and the East", Centropa 14:1, Jan 2014. (English)

Czech Republic[edit]

  • Jiří Valoch, Partitury: grafická hudba, fónická poezie, akce, parafráze, interpretace, Prague, 1980. (Czech)
  • Jarmila Doubravová, Hudba a výtvarné umění, Prague, 1982. (Czech)
  • Petr Dorůžka (ed.), Hudba na pomezí, Prague, 1991. (Czech)
  • Michal Rataj (ed.), Zvukem do hlavy, Prague, 2012. (Czech)
  • Jakub Frank, Konceptualizace zvuku a jeho recepce ve výtvarném umění v Československu, Olomouc: Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci, 2018, 81 pp. Master's thesis. (Czech)
  • Jitka Hlaváčková, Miloš Vojtěchovský (eds.), Zvuky, kódy, obrazy. Akustický experiment ve vizuálním umění / Sounds, Codes, Images, Prague: ArtMap, 2021, 288 pp. Exhibition. [283] (Czech)/(English)
  • Helena Musilová, "Fluxus a československá scéna v 60. letech 20. století / Fluxus and the Czechoslovak Art Scene in the 1960s", in Zvuky, kódy, obrazy. Akustický experiment ve vizuálním umění / Sounds, Codes, Images, eds. Jitka Hlaváčková and Miloš Vojtěchovský, Prague: ArtMap, 2021, pp 123-136. [284] (Czech)/(English)

Slovakia[edit]

Germany[edit]

  • Anita Kenner (Christoph Tannert), "Avantgarde in der DDR heute? Ein Panorama der Kunst-, Literatur- und Musikszene", Niemandsland 5, 1988, pp 94-110. (German)
  • Jens Henkel, Sabine Russ, DDR 1980-1989: Künstlerbücher und originalgrafische Zeitschriften im Eigenverlag; eine Bibliographie, Gifkendorf: Merlin, 1991, 166 pp. [286] (German)
  • Forschungsstelle Osteuropa (ed.), Eigenart und Eigensinn: Alternative Kulturszenen in der DDR (1980-1990): mit einem Bestandskatalog, Temmen, 1993, 272 pp. [287] (German)
  • Philip Brady, Ian Wallace (eds.), Prenzlauer Berg: Bohemia in East Berlin?, Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1995, 148 pp. Review: Görner (Modern Lang Rev). [288] (English)
  • Günter Feist, Eckhart Gillen, Beatrice Vierneisel, Kunstdokumentation SBZ / DDR 1945-1990. Aufsätze, Berichte, Materialien, Cologne: DuMont, 1996, 916 pp. Review: Heering (ZdF). (German)
  • Uta Grundmann, Klaus Michael, Susanne Seufert (eds.), Die Einübung der Aussenspur. Die andere Kultur in Leipzig 1971-1990, Leipzig: Thom, 1996. (German)
  • Christian Hussel, Aktionskunst in der DDR bei spezieller Betrachtung der autonomen Kunstszene, Universität Leipzig, 1996. MA thesis. (German)
  • Paul Kaiser, Claudia Petzold (eds.), Boheme und Diktatur in der DDR. Gruppen Konflikte Quartiere 1970 bis 1989, Berlin: Fannei und Walz, 1997, 415 pp. Catalogue. (German)
  • Peter Böthig, Grammatik einer Landschaft. Literatur aus der DDR in den 80er Jahren, Berlin: Lukas, 1997, 298 pp. [289] (German)
  • Birgit Dahlke, Papierboot. Autorinnen aus der DDR--inoffiziell publiziert, Würzburg: Königshausen und Neumann, 1997. Review: Baldwin (GDR Bulletin). (German)
  • Bernd Lindner, "Eingeschränkte Öffentlichkeit? Die alternative Galerieszene in der DDR und ihr Publikum", Schweinebraden 1, 1998, pp 225-233. (German)
  • Roland Galenza, Heinz Havemeister (eds.), Wir wollen immer artig sein... Punk, New Wave, Hiphop und Independent-Szene in der DDR von 1980-1990, Berlin: Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, 1999. (German)
  • Edward Larkey (ed.), A Sound Legacy? Music and Politics in East Germany, Washington, DC: American Institute for Contemporary German Studies, 2000, 64 pp. (English)
  • Susanne Binas, "'Ost-West-Durchbrüche'. Zur aktuellen Bedeutung des DDR-Pop-Undergrounds", in Sound Signatures. Über die populäre Welt, ed. Jochen Bonz, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 2001. (German)
  • Roland Berbig, et al. (eds.), Zersammelt: die inoffizielle Literaturszene der DDR nach 1990: eine Bestandsaufnahme, Berlin: Theater der Zeit, 2001, 243 pp. (German)
  • Bernd Lindner, Rainer Eckert (eds.), Klopfzeichen. Kunst und Kultur der 80er Jahre in Deutschland. Teil 1: Mauersprünge, Leipzig: Faber & Faber, 2002. TOC. (German)
  • Eugen Blume, Hubertus Gaßner, Eckhart Gillen, Hans-Werner Schmidt (eds.), Klopfzeichen. Kunst und Kultur der 80er Jahre in Deutschland. Teil 2: Wahnzimmer, Leipzig: Faber & Faber, 2002. (German)
  • Fritz Jacobi (eds.), Nationalgalerie Berlin: Kunst in der DDR. Katalog der Gemälde und Skulpturen, Leipzig: E. A. Seemann, 2003, 312 pp. Catalogue, with CD-ROM. Review: Feist (J f Kunstgeschichte). (German)
  • Eugen Blume, Roland März (eds.), Kunst in der DDR. Eine Retrospektive der Nationalgalerie, Berlin: G + H Verlag, 2003, 360 pp. Catalogue. TOC. Review: Feist (J f Kunstgeschichte). (German)
  • Michael Boehlke, Henryk Gericke (eds.), Ostpunk! Too Much Future. Punk in der DDR 1979-89, Berlin: Künstlerhaus Bethanien, 2005, 207 pp. Catalogue. (German)/(English)
  • Frank Eckhardt, Paul Kaiser (eds.), Ohne uns! Kunst & alternative Kultur in Dresden vor und nach ’89, Dresden: efau, 2009, 382 pp. Catalogue. Works. [290] [291]
  • Angelika Richter, Beatrice E. Strammer, Bettina Knaupp (eds.), und jetzt. Künstlerinnen aus der DDR, Nürnberg: Verlag für moderne Kunst, 2009. Catalogue. Tannert's essay. (German)
  • Uwe Warnke, Ingeborg Quaas (eds.), Die Addition der Differenzen. Die Literaten- und Künstlerszene Ostberlins 1979 bis 1989, Berlin: Verbrecher, 2009, 340 pp. Catalogue. [292] [293] [294] (German)
  • Barbara Büscher, "Intermedia DDR 1985 - Ereignis und Netzwerk", map - media archive performance 2, 2010. [295] (German)
  • Britt Schlehahn, "Prozessorientierte Kunstformen in der DDR. Kritischer Rückblick auf aktuelle Ausstellungspraktiken", map - media archive performance 2, 2010. (German)
  • Jeannette Stoschek, "action fotografie 1956-1957. Eine Fotografengruppe in Leipzig, zwei Ausstellungen und ihre aktuelle Präsentation", map - media archive performance 2, 2010. (German)
  • Susanne Altmann, Ulrike Lorenz (eds.), Entdeckt! Rebellische Künstlerinnen in der DDR, Mannheim: Kunsthalle Mannheim, 2011, 30 pp. Excerpt. Excerpt. (German)
  • Geschlossene Gesellschaft. Künstlerische Fotografie in der DDR 1949-1989 / The Shuttered Society: Art Photography in the GDR: 1949-1989, Berlin: Berlinische Galerie, 2012, 352 pp. Catalogue. (English)/(German)
  • Heinz-Peter Preußer, "Randliteratur. Mediale Transgressionen des literarischen Feldes und im DDR-Samizdat insbesondere", in Literatur inter- und transmedial / Inter- and Transmedial Literature, Leiden: Brill, 2012. [296] (German)
  • William Seth Howes, Punk Avant-Gardes: Disengagement and the End of East Germany, University of Michigan, 2012. PhD dissertation. (English)
  • Yvonne Fiedler, Kunst im Korridor: private Galerien in der DDR zwischen Autonomie und Illegalität, Ch. Links Verlag, 2013, 400 pp. [297] (German)
  • Elize Bisanz, Marlene Heidel (eds.), Bildgespenster. Künstlerische Archive aus der DDR und ihre Rolle heute, Bielefeld: transcript, 2014. [298] [299] (German)
  • Christoph Tannert, Eugen Blume (eds.), Gegenstimmen. Kunst in der DDR 1976–1989 / Voices of Dissent. Art in the GDR 1976 to 1989, Berlin: Deutsche Gesellschaft, 2016, 559 pp. [300]. TOC. Excerpt. (German)/(English)
  • Sara Blaylock, "Performing the Subject, Claiming Space: Performance Art in 1980s East Germany", post, New York: MoMA, 1 Aug 2017. (English)
  • Angelika Richter, "Artistic collaborations of performing women in the GDR", in Performance Art in the Second Public Sphere: Event-Based Art in Late Socialist Europe, eds. Katalin Cseh-Varga and Adam Czirak, London: Routledge, 2018, pp 219-235. (English)
  • Angelika Richter, Das Gesetz der Szene: Genderkritik, Performance Art und zweite Öffentlichkeit in der späten DDR, Bielefeld: transcript, 2019, 408 pp. [301] (German)
  • Astrid Hackel, "Sichtbarkeit als Kritik. Subversive Körperbilder bei Gabriele Stötzer und Cornelia Schleime", in Aktionskunst jenseits des Eisernen Vorhangs. Künstlerische Kritik in Zeiten politischer Repression, ed. Adam Czirak, Bielefeld: transcript, 2019. (German)
  • Sara Blaylock, Parallel Public: Experimental Art in Late East Germany, MIT Press, 2022, 328 pp. Publisher. Author. Review: Fritzsch (ArtMargins). (English)
  • Sarah E. James, Paper Revolutions: An Invisible Avant-Garde, MIT Press, 2022, 400 pp. Publisher. (English)
  • Anti-Social Art: Experimental Practices in Late East Germany, Duluth, MN: University of Minnesota, 2022, 20 pp. Exh. zine; texts by texts by Sara Blaylock, Seth Howes, Sarah James, and Briana J. Smith. [302] [303] (English)
  • Alexander Pehlemann, Robert Mießner, Ronald Galenza (eds.), Magnetizdat DDR. Magnetbanduntergrund Ost 1979–1990, Berlin: Verbrecher, 2023, 464 pp. With 3-LP. Publisher. Book launch. [304] (German)
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Feminist art[edit]

  • Gender Check: Femininity and Masculinity in the Art of Eastern Europe, ed. Bojana Pejić and Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Vienna, Cologne: Walther Koenig, 2009, 392 pp. Catalogue. Texts by: Edit András, Keti Chukhrov, Branislav Dimitrijevic´, Katrin Kivimaa, Izabela Kowalczyk, Suzana Milevska, Martina Pachmanová, Bojana Pejic´, Piotr Piotrowski, Zora Rusinová, Hedwig Saxenhuber, Georg Schöllhammer. Project website. Publisher. Exh. held at mumok, Vienna, 13 Nov 2009-14 Feb 2010; Zachęta, 19 Mar-13 Jun 2010. List of works. Review: Krüger (Ostblick). Symposium. [305]
    • Gender Check. Rollenbilder in der Kunst Osteuropas, Vienna: mumok, 2009, 162 pp. TOC. [306] (German)
  • Gender Check: A Reader. Art and Theory in Eastern Europe, eds. Bojana Pejić, ERSTE Foundation, and Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Vienna, Cologne: Buchhandlung Walther König, 2010, 416 pp. An extensive collection of texts that explicitly analyze visual arts created before and after 1989 in the 'other' Europe in terms of gender and feminist theories. Texts by Anna Alchuk, Branislava Andjelkovic, Edit András, Zdenka Badovinac, Ágnes Berecz, Lyudmila Bredikhina, Branislav Dimitrijevic, Hildtrud Ebert, Ewa Franus, Jana Geržová, Nataša Ilić, Eva Khachatryan, Katrin Kivimaa, Izabela Kowalczyk, Vjollca Krasniqi, Laima Kreivyte, Dejan Kršic, Paweł Leszkowicz, Suzana Milevska, Danica Minic, Olivia Niţiş, Aleksis Osmanis, Martina Pachmanová, Bojana Pejić, Piotr Piotrowski, Zora Rusinová, Angeli Sachs, Lydia Sklevicky, Vera Sokolová, Inga Šteimane, Maria Vassileva, Mirek Vodrážka. TOC. Project website. Publisher. [307]
  • The Medea Insurrection: Radical Women Artists behind the Iron Curtain, ed. Susanne Altmann, et al., Cologne: Walther Koenig, and Dresden: Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, 2019, 256 pp. Excerpt. Exhibition, [308]. [309] (German)/(English)
  • Secondary Archive, platform for women artists from Central and Eastern Europe, est. 2021. Maintained by Katarzyna Kozyra Foundation. [310]

Cybernetics, Technology and Politics[edit]

East-Central Europe[edit]

Poland[edit]

  • Natalia Sielewicz, "Eternal Shapes: Weaving the Erotic into Cybernetics in 1970s Poland", in Multiple Realities: Experimental Art in the Eastern Bloc, 1960s–1980s, ed. Pavel S. Pyś, Minneapolis, MN: Walker Art Center, 2023. Excerpt. Exhibition. (English)
  • Computing and cybernetics in CEE#Poland

Audiovisual compositions[edit]

East-Central Europe[edit]

  • Karin von Maur, Vom Klang der Bilder. Die Musik in der Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts, Stuttgart, 1985. Catalogue. (German)
  • Sophie Duplaix, Marcella Lista, Sons et lumières, Paris, 2004. (French)
  • Serge Lemoine, Pascal Rousseau (eds.), Aux origines de l'abstraction. 1800-1914, Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 2003, 336 pp. Catalogue. (French) [311]
  • Jan Schneider, Lenka Krausová (eds.), Intermedialita: Slovo-Obraz-Zvuk: Sborník příspěvku ze sympozia, Olomouc: Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci, 2008, 336 pp. (Czech)
  • David Crowley, Daniel Muzyczuk, Sounding the Body Electric: Experiments in Art and Music in Eastern Europe 1957-1984, Łódź: Muzeum Sztuki, 2012.
  • Daniel Muzyczuk, David Crowley, Michał Libera, "Sounding the Body Electric: A Conversation", ArtMargins, 8 October 2012.
  • Sounding the Body Electric: Experiments in Art and Music in Eastern Europe 1964-1984, Bôłt, 2013. 2-CD. [312]
  • David Crowley, Daniel Muzyczuk (eds.), Notes from the Underground: Art and Alternative Music in Eastern Europe 1968–1994 / Notatki z podziemia, London: Koenig Books, 2017, 448 pp. [313]. Exhibition. (English)/(Polish)

Czech Republic[edit]

  • František Krejčí, "Čití a vnímání", Psychologie, II, Prague, 1904, p 250. (Czech)
  • J. Chalupecký, Hudba barev, Prague, 1904. (Czech)
  • J. Stanislav, L. Kuba, Prague, 1968.
  • Vladimír Lébl, "O meznich druzich hudby", Nove cesty hudby, 1969, II, pp. 216-247. (Czech)
  • M. Klivar, "Nove formy audiovizualniho umeni", Estetika, 1970, 2, pp. 149-154. (Czech)
  • Vladimír Lébl, "M. Grygar", Hudebni rozhledy, 1971, 9; Electronic Music Reports, Utrecht 1971; Jazz Bulletin, 1979, 9.
  • J. Doubravová, "Z rane tvorby E. Schulhoffa", Hudebni rozhledy, 1976, 6, pp. 281-285. (Czech)
  • J. Doubravová, "Music and Visual Art: Their Relation as a Topical Problem of the Contemporary Music in Czechoslovakia", International Review of the Aesthetics and Sociology of Music, 11(2), 1980, pp 219-228.
  • Jiří Zemánek, Milan Grygar, Obraz a zvuk, Prague, 1999. Catalogue.
  • Lenka Pastyříková, "Vizualizace hudby v českém meziválečném výtvarném umění", Umění LII, 2004. (Czech)
  • Alois Piňos, Ivo Medek, Multimedial Scene of Brno, Brno: JAMU, 2005.
  • Jaroslav Bláha, Výtvarné umění a hudba: Tvar prostor a čas I, , 2012, 231 pp. With CD. (Czech) [314]

Slovakia[edit]

Electroacoustic music, Sound art[edit]

East-Central Europe[edit]

Czech Republic[edit]

  • Miloš Bláha, Miroslav Mandík, "I. seminář elektronické hudby v ČSSR", Rozhlasová a televizní technika 4, 1964. [317] [318] [319] (Czech)
  • Vladimír Lébl, Elektronická hudba, Prague: Státní hudební vydavatelství, 1966. [320] (Czech)
  • Zdeněk Fencl, "Komponující algoritmus a obsah informace", Kybernetika 3 (1966), Prague, pp 243-258. (Czech)
  • Josef Berg, Alois Piňos, Dějiny hudebního experimentu v Praze a na Moravě [History of Music Experiment in Czechia and Moravia], Sep 1966 ff. Events.
  • Jan Kapr, Konstanty nástin metody osobního výběru zvláštních znaků skladby [Constants, Outline of Personal Method of Specific Signs of Composing Selection], Prague: Panton, 1967, 226 pp. (Czech),(German)
  • Zdeněk Fencl, "Počítač jako hudební nástroj", Hudební věda 5:1 (1968), Prague, pp 101-116. (Czech)
  • "Československo", in International Electronic Music Catalog, ed. Hugh Davies, Paris: Le Groupe de Recherches Musicales de l'O.R.T.F. (GRM), and New York: Independent Electronic Music Center, 1967, pp 24-29, IA. Special issue of Electronic Music Review 2/3, Apr/July 1967. (English),(French)
  • Z. Vostřák, "Kapitoly z hudební poetiky" [Lectures on Music Poetics], Konfrontace 1 (1969), pp. 6–13.
  • J. Kapr, "Teorie naznačování a vychylování" [Theory of Indication and Variation], Hudební rozhledy, 1970, pp 358–365, 417–422.
  • Vladimír Lébl, "Brno Experimenting", Hudební rozhledy 5 (1970), Prague. [321]
  • Jiří Kopřiva, "Samočinný počítač jako pomocník skladatele experimentální hudby", in Deset let práce laboratoře počítacích stroju, Brno: VUT, 1972, pp 116-117. (Czech)
  • Rudolf Růžička, "Samočinné počítače a současné směry v hudbě", in Deset let práce Laboratoře počítacích strojů VUT, Brno, 1972, p 120. (Czech)
  • M. Ištván, "Metoda montáže izolovaných prvků v hudbě", Prague: Panton, 1973. (Czech)
  • Alois Piňos, "Elektroakustické skladby brněnského kompozičního týmu 1968-1974" [322] (Czech)
  • Jiří Hanousek, "O začátcích a konci Brněnského elektronického studia" [323] (Czech)
  • J. Ludvová, Matematické modely v hudební analyse, Prague: Supraphon, 1975.
  • Rudolf Růžička, Využití samočinných počítaču při vzniku umělecký děl se zvláštním zaměřením na hudbu a soudobou kompozici, Brno: JAMU, 1980.
  • Josef Gerbrich, Rudolf Růžička, Jiří Stehlík, "Compositions musicale informatisées en Tchécoslovaquie" in Conference Internationale d' Informatique Musicale 1984, Paris, 1984, pp 97-98. (French)
  • Josef Gerbrich, Rudolf Růžička, Jiří Stehlík, "The computer musical compositions in Czechoslovakia", International Computer Music Conference 1984, Paris, 1984, pp 230-231.
  • Josef Gerbrich, Miloš Štědroň, "Počítače a hudba", in SOFSEM '85, Brno: Ústav výpočetní techniky UJEP, 1985, pp 47-68. (Czech) [324]
  • Jan Jirásek, "Changes in the Semantic Relationships Among Basic Musical Parameters and Their Perspektive in EAM", a lecture given in Graz, Opus musicum, Brno, 1988.
  • Josef Gerbrich, Petr Randula, Rudolf Růžička, "Program pro kompozici a automatickou notaci vážné hudby", in Aplikace umělé inteligence - AI '88, Prague: Ústav pro informační systémy v kultuře, Prague, 1988, pp 289-296. (Czech)
  • Rudolf Růžička, "Perspektivy počítačové umělecké tvorby a jejího společenského uplatnění", Opus musicum 3, 1989, pp IV-VI.
  • Vladimír Lébl, "Brno in Sixties", Opus musicum 6 (1990), Brno.
  • Alois Piňos, "Zum Princip der Latenz in der zeitgenössischen Musik", in Otto Kolleritsch (ed.), Musikalische Gestaltung im Spannungsfeld von Chaos und Ordnung , UE Wien, N. 26823m, 1991, pp 103–113.
  • Rudolf Růžička, "Creative, Pedagogical and Social Perspectives of Electroacoustic and Computer Music Art", "Tvůrčí, pedagogické a spoločenské perspektivy elektroakustického a computerového hudebního umění," IFEM '92 Medzinárodné fórum elektroakustickej hudby. Bratislava-Dolná Krupá. November 1992. [325] (English)/(Czech)
  • Miroslav Kaduch Česká a slovenská elektroakustická hudba 1964-1994. Skladatelé, programátoři, technici, muzikologové, hudební kritici, publicisté. Osobní slovník, Ostrava, 1994; Second Edition: 1996. [326] (Czech)
  • Libor Zajíček, An Oral History of Electroacoustic Music in the Czech and Slovak Republics, Dissertation, San Jose State University, 1995. [327]
  • Libor Zajíček, "The History of Electroacoustic Music in the Czech and Slovak Republics", Leonardo Music Journal 5 (1995), pp 39-48 [328]
  • Kateřina Růžičková, Multimediální umění a jeho projevy na brněnské hudební scéně, Brno: JAMU, 1999. Master's thesis. (Czech)
  • Lenka Dohnalová, "Electro-acoustic music in Czech Republic", Aesthetica 19 (2000).
  • Lenka Dohnalová, Estetické modely evropské elektroakustické hudby a elektroakustická hudba v ČR, Prague: Univerzita Karlova, 1999. (Czech)
  • Michal Rataj, Elektroakustická hudba a vybrané koncepty radioartu, Prague: Kant, 2007. (Czech)
  • Petr Kotík, Viktor Pantůček, Ladislav Kupkovič, Rudolf Komorous, Začátky nové hudby v Praze 1959-64: Ostravské dny 2007, Ostravské centrum nové hudby, Ostrava, 2007, 43 pp. [329]
  • Martin Flašar, "The East of the West: The conditions under which electroacoustic music existed in Czechoslovakia, 1948-1992", EMS08, 2008. Conference paper.
  • Tomáš Raszka, Elektroakustická hudba, její technologie a proces se zaměřením na československou scénu, Brno: Masaryk University, 2010. Bachelor thesis. (Czech)
  • Zvukem do hlavy: Sondy do současné audiokultury, Prague: AMU, 2012. (Czech) [330]
  • Rudolf Růžička (ed.), "Bibliografie o české a slovenské počítačové hudbě".
  • Sylvie Bajgarová, Profil české elektroakustické hudební scény v letech 2000-2020, Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2021. Master's thesis.
  • Petr Ferenc (ed.), Ukryto v pásech: Vybrané kapitoly z české elektroakustické hudební tvorby do roku 1989, Prague: Národní muzeum, 2022, 196 pp. [331] (Czech)

Slovakia[edit]

Hungary[edit]

  • Laszlo Dubrovay, "Hungarian Electroacoustic Music", 1994, [338]
  • Zoltán Pongrácz, "Electroacoustic music in Hungary", 1992, [339]
  • Gyorgy Kroó, "New Hungarian Music", in: Notes, Second Series, Vol. 39, No. 1 (Sep., 1982), pp. 43-71 [340]

Poland[edit]

East Germany[edit]

Serbia[edit]

  • Mirjana Veselinović-Hofman, "Stvaralačko prisustvo evropske avangarde u nas" [The Creative Presence of the European Avant-Garde in Serbian Music], Belgrade, Univerzitet umetnosti, 1983.
  • Vladan Radovanović, Vokovizuel (Vocovisual), Belgrade, Nolit, 1987.
  • Mirjana Veselinović-Hofman, "Fragment o muzičkoj postmoderni" [Fragment on Musical Postmodernism], Novi Sad, Matica srpska, 1997.
  • Vladan Radovanović, “Srpska avangarda u odlasku od muzike (1955–1980)” [Serbian Avant-garde in the Process of Leaving Music (1955–1980)], Gradina, 10, 1984, pp. 5–37
  • Melita Milin, "Serbian Music of the Second Half of the 20th Century: From Socialist Realism to Postmodernism", in: Katy Romanou (ed.), Serbian and Greek art music: a patch to Western music history, Intellect Books, 2009, pp 82-97.
  • Sintezijska umetnost Vladana Radovanovića [The Synthesic Art of Vladan Radovanović] monograph for his retrospective, 2005. Includes collection of essays by Dejan Đorić (The Founder of the Serbian Avant-Garde), Ješa Denegri, Nikola Šuica (on vocovisual), Ivan Rastegorac (On the Recording of Dreams and the Literary Works of Vladan Radovanović), Melita Milin (Metamusic and Music of Vladan Radovanović), Vladan Radovanović (Sintezijska umetnost / Synthesic Art); and catalogue of works. [343] [344]
  • Mirjana Veselinović-Hofman, "Problems and Paradoxes of Yugoslav Avant-garde Music (Outlines for a Reinterpretation)" in Impossible Histories: Historical Avant-gardes, Neo-avant-gardes, and Post-avant-gardes in Yugoslavia, 1918-1991, eds. Dubravka Djurić and Miško Šuvaković, MIT Press, 2003, pp 404-441. (English)
  • Ivana Janković [Medić], "Sintezijska umetnost Vladana Radovanovića" [Vladan Radovanović's 'synthesic art'], Muzikologija 3, 2003, pp 141-186. (Serbian) [345] [346]
  • Vladan Radovanović, Muzika i Elektroakustička Muzika, Izdavačka knjižarnica Zorana Stojanovića, Novi Sad, 2010.

Croatia[edit]

Romania[edit]

  • Aurel Stroe, Grădina sunetelor - eseuri despre muzică [Sound Garden - Essays on Music], Bucharest: Muzicală, 1991. (Romanian)

Bulgaria[edit]

  • Simo Lazarov, "Bulgarian Electronic and Computer Music Electronic Studio - Radio Sofia", 1994. [347]
  • Simo Lazarov, "Composing and Performing Computer Music By Using Personal Computers", PhD thesis, 1991. Technical University in Sofia.

Lithuania[edit]

Multimedia environments[edit]

Czech Republic[edit]

  • Jan Grossman, "O kombinaci divadla a filmu", in Laterna magika - sborník statí, ed. Bohumil Svoboda, Prague: ČSF - Filmový ústav, 1968, pp 31-97. (Czech)
  • Vít Havránek, "V prostoru", in Akce, slovo, pohyb, prostor. Experimenty v umění šedesátých let, ed. Vít Havránek, Prague: Galerie hl. města Prahy, 1999, pp 178–198. (Czech)
  • Vít Havránek, "Laterna Magika, Polyekran, Kinoautomat", in Future Cinema: The Cinematic Imaginary after Film, Karlsruhe: ZKM, and Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2003. (English)
  • Michael Bielicky, "Prague: A Place of Illusionists", trans. Sarah Clift, in Future Cinema: The Cinematic Imaginary after Film, eds. Jeffrey Shaw and Peter Weibel, Karlsruhe: ZKM, and Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2003, 96-101. (English)
  • Magdalena Deverová, Instalace vnitřního prostoru - její počátky v českém umění [Interior Installation - Its beginnings in Czech art], Brno: Masaryk University, 2009. Master's thesis. (Czech)
  • Svatopluk Malý, Vznik, rozvoj a ústup multivizuálních programů. Laterna magika a polyekrany, Prague: Akademie múzických umění, 2010, 110 pp. Publisher. (Czech)
Resources
  • Vit Havranek (ed.), Pioneers of Interactive Czech Films (50s-60s), 2002. DVD with works: Laterna Magika, 1958; Laterna Magica, 1967, Exposition Montréal; Kinoautomat, 1967, Expo Montréal; Diapolyekrán, Stvorení sveta, 1967, Expo Montréal. [349]

Computer art, digital art[edit]

East-Central Europe[edit]

Croatia[edit]

See also New Tendencies.

Czech Republic[edit]

  • Jiří Valoch (ed.), Computer Graphic, Brno: Dům umění města Brna, 1968. 16 pages. Catalogue. (Czech)
  • Zdeněk Sýkora, J Blažek, "Computer-Aided Multi-element, Geometrical Abstract Paintings", Leonardo 3 (1970), p 409.
  • Božena Pilpachová, Počítačová grafika, Prague: Výzkum. ústav výstavby a architektury, 1972, 58 pp. (Czech)
  • L Granát, H Sechovský, Počítačová grafika, Prague: SNTL, 1980. (Czech)
  • Miroslav Klivar, Zdeňka Čechová, Aplikace počítačové grafiky v textilním průmyslu ČSSR, Prague: ÚBOK, 1981. (Czech) [350]
  • Computer Graphics Art. Zdeňka Čechová, Daniel Fischer, Zdeněk Frýbl, Jozef Jankovič, Miroslav Klivar, Jan Moučka, Prague, 1982. Catalogue.
  • Počítačové grafické umění, Prague: Obvodní dum kultury v Prahe 8, 1982. Catalogue. (Czech)
  • Miroslav Klivar, "Počítač v umění a experimentální estetice" Estetika 3 (1986). (Czech)
  • Miroslav Klivar, "České počítačové umění (1)", Chůdové kořeny, Vol 2, No 2, June 2003. (Czech)
  • Miroslav Klivar, "České počítačové umění (2)", Chůdové kořeny, Vol 2, No 3, October 2003. (Czech)

Slovakia[edit]

Hungary[edit]

Poland[edit]

Slovenia[edit]

  • Marina Gržinić (ed.), The Future of Computer Arts, 2004. [355]

Romania[edit]

  • Sherban Epuré, "Redefinirea structurii artistului. Atitudine cibernetică, gândire matematică" [Cybernetic Attitude, Mathematical Thinking], România Literarã 25, Bucharest, 13 Jun 1970. (Romanian)
  • Adrian Rogoz, "Arta Programativã", Stiinta si Technica, Bucharest, Jun 1970. (Romanian)
  • Sherban Epuré, "Cibernetica şi arta" [Cybernetics and Art], Arta Plasticã 7, Bucharest, Sep 1970. (Romanian)
  • Sherban Epuré, "Glosar" [Glossary], Arta Plasticã 1-5, Bucharest, Feb-Aug 1971. The "Glossary" was published throughout most of 1971, as a series of monthly articles. It dealt with such terms as: cybernetics, structure, input, output, feedback behavior, information, the significance of information, feedback, black-box, redundancy, noise, sensibility, original, entropy, etc. [356] [357] [358] [359] [360] (Romanian)
  • Viktor Ernest Maşek, Arta şi matematica. Introducere în estetica informaţională, Bucharest: Politică, 1972. The first Romanian text applying Max Bense's aesthetic theories to semiotics of visual art. The book is based on his PhD thesis, "Introducere în estetica informaţională", 1971. (Romanian)
  • Viktor Ernest Maşek (ed.), Estetică, informaţie, programare [Aesthetics. Information. Programming], Editura Ştiinţifică, Bucharest 1972, 216 pp. Anthology comprising important texts by A. Moles, M. Bense, H. Frank, S. Maser, K. Alsleben, but also Mihai Dinu, Cezar Radu, Stefan Niculescu, and others.
  • Mihai Nadin, Elements of Meta-Aesthetics, Eminescu, Bucharest, 1972.
  • Sherban Epuré, "Realismul matematic" [Realism Mathematic], (cont.), (cont.), Arta Plasticã, Bucharest, 13 Apr 1973. (Romanian)
  • Sherban Epuré, "Matematică şi construcţie anatomică" [Mathematics and Anatomical Constructions"], (cont.), Secolul XX 11-12, Bucharest, 1973. (Romanian)
  • Abraham Moles, Artă şi ordinator [Art and Computer], trans. Claudia Dumitru and Ion Pascadi, pref. Ion Pascadi, Bucharest: Meridiane, 1974, 311 pp. Romanian trans. of the classic book Art et ordinateur (1971). (Romanian)
  • Sherban Epuré, "Artă plastică și metode cibernetice" [Fine Arts and Cybernetic Methos], (cont.), (cont.), Bucharest: New Gallery, Mar 1974. Catalog text; part of the Art and Energy exhibition, at The New Gallery, Bucharest. (Romanian)
  • Sherban Epuré, "Aplicații ale metodelor cibernetice în artă plastică" [Applications of Cybernetic Methods in Fine Arts], Arta Plastică, Bucharest, Oct 1974. (Romanian)
  • Viktor Ernest Maşek, "Computer Graphics", Arta 6, Bucharest, 1976. Review of Jalobeanu's exhibition. (Romanian)
  • Radu Bagdasar, Informatica Mirabilis - Arta şi Literatura de calculator [Computer Art and Literature], Dacia, 1982. (Romanian)
  • Solomon Marcus (ed.), Semiotica matematică a artelor vizuale [Mathematical Semiotics of Visual Arts], Bucharest: Editura Ştiinţifică si Enciclopedica, 1982, 409 pp. Contains two substantial texts in the field of the computer–art relationship, namely, Mihai Jalobeanu, "Imaginile, producerea si prelucrarea lor cu sistemele actuale de calcul" [Images, their Production and Processing with today's Computing Systems] and Mihai Brediceanu, "Timpul polimodular în artele vizuale" [Polimodular Time in Visual Arts]. (Romanian)
  • Art and Computer, 1985. Pamphlet accompanying exhibition, with text by Horia Medeleanu.
  • Sherban Epuré, "An Artist's Journey in Art and Science: From behind the Iron Court to Present-Day America", Leonardo 39:5, MIT Press, Oct 2006, pp 402-409, 436. [361] (English)
  • Ambroise Barrac, Poezia electronică, 2008. [362] (Romanian)
  • Mihai Nadin, "Foresight and Hindsight", Leonardo 51:3, Jun 2018, pp 270-276. [363] (English)

Bulgaria[edit]

  • In one of the biggest and well-known daily newspapers “Narodna Mladej” (Peoples’ Youth) with approx. 100 000 daily issues circulation, Rosen Petkov, promoted electronic arts (ca 1987 [364]). “Mlad konstruktor” (The Young Developer) magazine and “Grafika s komputar” (Computer Graphics) magazine were other well known media where Mr. Petkov presented the electronic music and computer graphics achievements during that time.
  • Rosen Petkov, Old books and computer arts, 2010. [365]

Video[edit]

East-Central Europe[edit]

Czech Republic[edit]

Documentary films

Slovakia[edit]

  • Miroslav Klivar, "Videoumenie I, II" Výtvarníctvo, fotografia, film 4-5 (1987). (Slovak)
  • Suterén, ed. Radislav Matuštík, Bratislava, 1989. Catalogue.
  • Katarína Rusnáková, "Videoumenie", in Slovník svetového a slovenského výtvarného umenia druhej polovice 20. storočia, ed. Jana Geržová, Bratislava: Profil, 1999. (Slovak)
  • Katarína Rusnáková, "Umenie videa", in Zora Rusinová et al. Dejiny slovenského výtvarného umenia – 20. storočie, Bratislava: SNG, 2000. (Slovak)

Hungary[edit]

  • Bálint Szombathy, "Video Art in the Mid-Seventies", Új Symposion 128, 1975.
  • György Somogyi, Video-Visions (Mûvészet, 1977 Yearbook)
  • Gábor Bódy, Creative Thinking Device, film journal Filmvilág, 1982
  • The World of Video, first comprehensive collection of translated articles covering the field of video, providing information about the international developments of almost twenty years of video art and video theory, 1983.
  • Vera Bódy, "Magyar Video", Mediamatic 1:4 (1987). [372]
  • Sub Voce: Contemporary Hungarian Video Installation, ed. Suzanne Mészöly, Budapest: Soros Foundation Fine Art Documentation Center - Mucsarnok, 1991, 75 pp. Catalogue. Exhibition. [373] (English)/(Hungarian)
  • Miklos Peternak, "Die neuen (kuenstlerischen) Medien und die ungarische Gesellschaft", [374] (German)
  • Andrew J Horton, "Avant-garde Film and Video in Hungary" Central European Review (October 1998) [375] (English)
  • Magyar videótörténet képekben. Film, színház, előadóművészet/Videó, DVD, Budapest: C3, 2007. Photo album, educational aid. [376] (Hungarian)
  • Szilvia Seres, Miklós Peternák (eds.), History and archive of video art in Hungary 1972-2000, Budapest: C3, n.d. Online archive.

Poland[edit]

Yugoslavia[edit]

Croatia[edit]

  • Inovacije u Hrvatskoj umjetnosti sedamdesetih godina, ed. Boris Kelemen, Zagreb: Gallery of Contemporary Art Zagreb, 1982. Excerpt. (Serbo-Croatian),(English)
  • Heiko Daxl, "Film and Video-art in Croatia. Fragmentary Sketches of a History and a Description of the Status Quo", August 1993. (English), (German)
  • Andrew J Horton, "Avant-garde Film and Video in Croatia", Central European Review, Nov 1998. [379] (English)
  • Insert: retrospektiva hrvatske video umjetnosti / Retrospective of Croatian Video Art, ed. Tihomir Milovac, Zagreb: MSU, 2008, 360 pp. Exh. held at MSU Zagreb, Sep-Oct 2005, and MMSU Rijeka, Mar-Apr 2006. Texts by Tihomir Milovac, Silva Kalčić, Antonija Majača, Branko Franceschi. Exhibition. [380] (Croatian)/(English)
  • Cinemaniac > Misliti film: Video animacija anticipacija / Cinemaniac > Think Film: Video Television Anticipation, ed. Branka Benčić, Pula: Apoteka — Space for Contemporary Art, 2017, 77 pp. (Croatian)/(English)

Serbia[edit]

Slovenia[edit]

  • Bit International 8-9: "Television Today / Televizija danas", ed. Vera Horvat-Pintarić, 1972, 245 pp. Includes texts on the first video experiments. (Serbo-Croatian)/(English),(French),(German),(Italian)
  • Stane Bernik, 1973, in Sinteza magazine he defined video art as an experiment and as a creative experience of contemporary fine art expression. This marked the beginning of discussions about video as a new medium in texts.
  • Ekran magazine published a historical overview of tendencies in video, including a selected bibliography, edited by Brane Kovič, 1977.
  • Bogdan Lešnik wrote in Ekran magazine, 1979, about video technology and procedures, and about video as `a medium whose specific conditions place it in the sphere of art and thus deprive it of political alertness'.
  • Tomaž Brejc on Miha Vipotnik and Nuša and Srečo Dragan, in Delo magazine, ca 1979. [382]
  • Dušan Mandić, text in Viks, a ŠKUC-Forum bulletin, 1983. Mandić wrote about the new codes of signification, and highlighted the difference between the formalistic approach to video in the `70s and the mass dimensions and social engagement of the audio-visual video explorations of the `80s.
  • Brane Kovič edited a thematic supplement on video for Ekran magazine, no. 1-2, Ljubljana, 1984. In addition to a text by Dušan Mandić, "ŠKUC-Forumova video produkcija", it was dedicated to the pioneer of video production, Nam June Paik.
  • The joint issue of Ekran and Sinteza in 1986 published the hitherto largest number of texts by domestic and foreign authors about video art, its history and relationship with television and design.
  • Marina Grzinic, "Video From Slovenia", Variant 11, 1992, pp 22-25.
  • Barbara Borčić, "From Alternative Scene to Art Video: Video Production in Slovenia 1992-1994", Ljubljana, March 1994. [383]
  • Barbara Borčić, "Reception of Video Production in Slovenia", [384]
  • "Video from Slovenia", [385]
  • Marina Grzinic, "Video Art in Slovenia and in the Territory of Ex-Yugoslavia (Toward an Electronic Art Media Theory in Eastern Europe)", Mute Jan 1997. [386]
  • Igor Španjol, "An artistic evening: television presentation and production of art video", in Videodokument: Video Art in Slovenia 1969-1998, ed. Barbara Borčić, Ljubljana: SCCA-Ljubljana, 1999.
  • Zemira Alajbegović and Igor Španjol, "In the tehnological grip of a television station: an interview with Miha Vipotnik", in Videodokument: Video Art in Slovenia 1969-1998, ed. Barbara Borčić, Ljubljana: SCCA Ljubljana, 1999.
  • Videodokument. Video art in Slovenia 1969-1998, ed. Barbara Borčić, Ljubljana: SCCA Ljubljana. Catalogue, book of essays, CD-ROM, 2001. [387]
  • Ana Fratnik, "Locality in the global medium: Video art in Slovenia". Diploma thesis, 2010. (Slovenian) [388]
  • Marina Gržinić (ed.), Paralelne zgodovine opolnomočenja in urbanosti Slovenije 1980–1990–2000. Od ljubljanske subkulturne scene do novomedijske scene v Sloveniji / Parallel Histories of Slovenia's Empowerment and Urbanity 1980-1990-2000. From the Ljubljana Subcultural Scene to the New Media Scene in Slovenia, Ljubljana, 2022. (Slovenian)/(English)
  • More texts on Videospotting.org

Macedonia[edit]

  • "Videokunst in Mazedonien", (German), [389]

Romania[edit]

  • Ex oriente lux, ed. Cãlin Dan, Bucharest: Soros Center for Contemporary Arts, 1994, 111 pp. Catalogue. Exhibition. (Romanian)/(English)
  • "Videokunst in Rumänien", (German), [390]
  • Natalie Musteata, "Wired to History: Romanian and Lithuanian Video Art Post-1989", PhD Program in Art History, CUNY Graduate Center, 2010. [391]

Bulgaria[edit]

  • Rossen Milev, "Bulgarien", in Milev, Video in Osteuropa, Sofia: Balkanmedia, 1993. (German)

Lithuania[edit]

Estonia[edit]

  • Raivo Kelomees, text on video art in Estonian, Kunst, 1988.
  • Raivo Kelomees, "Estonian Video Art", June 1995, [394]
  • Raivo Kelomees, "L'art vidéo vieillissant. L'académie de l'art électronique", [395]
  • Raivo Kelomees, "Jaan Toomik - Beyond Classification", 1997, [396]

Electronic music[edit]

Czech Republic[edit]

  • Petr Dorůžka ed. Hudba na pomezí (Prague: 1991)
  • Z K Slabý, Petr Slabý Svět jiné hudby (Prague: 2002)

Slovakia[edit]

  • Susanna Niedermayr, Christian Scheib European Meridians - New Music Territories. Reports from Changing Countries (Saarbrücken: PFAU, 2002) ISBN 3-89727-248-2. Two bilingual books with two audio CDs. [397] (English and German)

New media art, Media culture[edit]

East-Central Europe[edit]

Ostranenie catalogues
  • Ostranenie: 1. Internationales Videofestival am Bauhaus Dessau, 4.-7.11.1993: erschütterte Mythe, neue Realitäten: Osteuropa im Focus der Videokamera / 1. Meždunarodnyj videofestival v Bauchaus Dessau: poshatnuvshiesya myfy, novaya deystvitelnost: vostochnaya Evropa v fokuse videokamery / 1. International Video Festival at the Bauhaus Dessau: Shattered Myths, New Realities: Video Focus on Eastern Europe, eds. Inke Arns and Elisabeth Tharandt, Dessau: Bauhaus Dessau Foundation, 1993, 499 pp. Selected texts: Erjavec, Arns, Sei, Kovats, Kuhn, Milev, Sobetzko, Czegledy, Performances, more. [398] [399] (German),(Russian),(English)
  • OSTranenie '95: das internationale Video-Forum an der Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau / The International Video Forum at the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation: Video, Installation, Performance, Workshop: 8.-12. November, eds. Mirja Rosenau, Stephen Kovats, Thomas Munz, and Tina Rehn, Dessau: Bauhaus Dessau Foundation, 1995, 403+14 pp. [400] [401] (German)/(English)
  • Ostranenie '97: Dessau 5.-9. Dezember 1997: das internationale Forum elektronischer Medien / the International Electronic Media Forum, eds. Mirja Rosenau and Stephen Kovats, Dessau: Bauhaus Dessau Foundation, 1997, 553 pp. [402] [403] (German)/(English)
  • Ost-West Internet: elektronische Medien im Transformationsprozess Ost- und Mitteleuropas / Media Revolution: Electronic Media in the Transformation Process of Eastern and Central Europe, ed. Stephen Kovats, Frankfurt am Main/New York: Campus (Edition Bauhaus 6), 1999, 381 pp. ISBN 9783593363653. TOC, TOC. Review: Broeckmann (Leonardo). [404] [405] [406] (German)/(English)
  • Ostranenie 93 95 97, ed. Stephen Kovats, Dessau: Bauhaus Dessau Foundation, 1999. CD-ROM, Mac & PC. ISBN 3910022308. Documents the works and impressions of over 400 artists, critics, academics and journalists from 32 countries who participated in the Ostranenie events from 1993 to 1997. Produced by the Studio Electronic Media Interpretation of the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation in cooperation with C3 - Soros Foundation Budapest. [407] [408]
Nettime/ZK/NK Proceedings, [409]
  • ZKP3.2.1, ed. Vuk Cosic, Ljubljana: Ljudmila, Nov 1996. [419] (English)
Syndicate Publication Series
other

Czech Republic[edit]

Slovakia[edit]

  • Michal Murin, "Ars Electronica", Profil 14-15, 1992, pp 24-25. (Slovak)
  • Michal Murin, "John Cage v Bratislave", Profil 14-15, 1992, pp 36-38 (Slovak) PDF
  • Ľubica Krénová, "Videnie cez video", Profil 22-23, 1992, pp 1-3 (Slovak) PDF
  • Performance Art - monotématické číslo, (ed. Michal Murin) Profil 3, 1993, pp 1-15 (Slovak) PDF
  • Marvin Minsky, "Budúcnosť zjednotí vedu, umenie a psychológiu", Profil 3-4, 1993, pp 1-3 (Slovak) PDF
  • Michal Murin, "Ars Electronica ´93 - Osmy div sveta", Profil 8-9, 1993, pp 30 -31
  • Michal Murin, "Orlan - moje telo, text a jazyk", Profil 8-9, 1993, pp 31
  • Juraj Rakovský, "Osmy div sveta", Profil 8-9, 1993, pp 32 - 33
  • Martin Šperka, "Počítače na VŠVU", Projekt 4, 1993, pp 46-47. (Slovak)
  • Katarína Rusnáková, "New York - Londýn", Profil 3-4, 1994, pp 16-17 (Slovak) PDF
  • Michal Murin, "Ars Electronica Linz", Profil 5-6-7, 1994, pp 22
  • Ľuba Lacinová, "Kybernetický priestor pre telo, intelekt a dušu", Profil 1-2, 1995, pp 2-9 (Slovak) PDF
  • Stephan Berg, "Keď sa obrazy učili lietať. Umenie a virtuálna realita", Profil 1-2, 1995, pp 10-15 (Slovak) PDF
  • Martin Šperka, "ISEA95 Montréal", Profil 1-2, 1995, pp 16-19 (Slovak) PDF
  • Michal Murin, "Ars Electronica", Profil 1-2, 1995, pp 20-27 (Slovak) PDF
  • Martin Šperka, "Elektronické umenie", in Slovník svetového a slovenského výtvarného umenia druhej polovice 20. storočia, ed. Jana Geržová, Bratislava: Profil, 1999. (Slovak)
  • Martin Šperka, "Multimédiá", in Slovník svetového a slovenského výtvarného umenia druhej polovice 20. storočia, ed. Jana Geržová, Bratislava: Profil, 1999. (Slovak)
  • Martin Šperka, "Virtuálna realita", in Slovník svetového a slovenského výtvarného umenia druhej polovice 20. storočia, ed. Jana Geržová, Bratislava: Profil, 1999. (Slovak)
  • Katarína Rusnáková, "Postfotografia", in Slovník svetového a slovenského výtvarného umenia druhej polovice 20. storočia, ed. Jana Geržová, Bratislava: Profil, 1999. (Slovak)
  • Michal Murin, "Nové technológie v slovenskom umení alebo vyhoďme sa z kola von", in Almanach 98: texty o filme... filozofii... hudbe... a výtvarnom umení, eds. Monika Mitášová, Martin Kaňuch, Peter Michalovič, and Jozef Cseres, Bratislava: SCCA, 1999. (Slovak)
  • Slávo Krekovič, "Net radio.. net.audio", Trištvrte revue 5-6, Bratislava, 2000. (Slovak)
  • Zora Rusinová, "Objekt v multimediálnych kontextoch", in Zora Rusinová et al. Dejiny slovenského výtvarného umenia: 20. storočie, Bratislava: Slovenská národná galéria, 2000. (Slovak)
  • Dušan Barok, "Net.art. Internet ako umelecké médium", 3/4 revue 1, 2001, pp 22-24. (Slovak)
  • Juraj Čarný, "Aktuálne postavenie súčasného mediálneho umenia na Slovensku" / "Topical Status of Contemporary Media Arts in Slovakia", in Conceptual Art at the Turn of Millennium, Budapest: AICA Section Hungary, and Bratislava: Slovak Section of AICA, 2002, pp 94-113. (Slovak)/(English)
  • Miloš Vojtěchovský, "Umenie a elektronické technológie", in Dejiny umenia, 12, eds. Karel Císař, Josef Čermák, and Terezie Petišková, Bratislava: Ikar, 2002. (Slovak)
  • Jozef Cseres, "Interaktívnym umením za novú senzibilitu", Dart 10, 2003. (Slovak)
  • Mária Rišková, et al., New Media Nation. Festival of Festivals, Bratislava: Buryzone, 2003. Catalogue. (Slovak)/(English)
  • Michaela Sečanská, Elektronické umenie na Slovensku po roku 1990, Trnava: Trnavská univerzita, 2004. Master's thesis. Consultant: Zora Rusinová. (Slovak)
  • Michal Murin, "Od utópií cez virtualitu k digitálnej realite", Profil 2, 2004, pp 80-94, PDF (Slovak)
  • Jana Geržová, "Rozhovor s Michaelom Bielickým", Profil 4, 2004, pp 88-90 (Slovak) PDF
  • Miloš Vojtěchovský, "Nástin: Gary Hill a videopoetika", Profil 4, 2004, pp 80-87 (Czech) PDF
Digital prints
  • Michal Murin: Digital Male. Central European project of Exhibition of digital prints. Interview with Michal Boďa. In: Profil 4/2000. [447] (Slovak)
  • Zuzana Habšudová, "What have computers got to do with classic art?", In: The Slovak Spectator. October 2002. [448]

Hungary[edit]

  • Drótos, Schiller, Karácsony, Beke, Moldován, Auby (eds.), Magyar tartalom. Írások a magyar webkultúráról, C3 Kulturális és Kommunikációs Központ, Budapest, 1997. (Hungarian) [449] [450]
  • Iván Horváth (ed.), Contentware, Gépeskönyv Contentware Labs, 1999. [451]
  • Zsuzsanna Tószegi, "A highly personal overview on Hungarian CD-ROMs", [452]
  • Miklós Peternák, "Art Beyond the Pictorial Turn", in Zoltán Szegedy-Maszák, Paks: Paksi Képtár, 2008-2009, pp 5-17. [453]
  • Flóra Barkóczi, "Képzőművészet és kollektivitás a korai magyar interneten. Az Artpool, a C3 és az Éjjeli Őrjárat 1990-es évekbeli weblapja és tevékenysége" [Art and Collectivity on the Early Hungarian Internet], in A magyar internet történetei, ed. Tamás Tófalvy, Budapest: Typotex, 2021, pp 161-173. [455] [456] (Hungarian)

Poland[edit]

Yugoslavia[edit]

Croatia[edit]

Slovenia[edit]

Resources

Serbia[edit]

Bosnia and Herzegovina[edit]

  • Darko Zovko, "Sarajevo Link", 1995. [469]
  • Seki Tatlic, "Fragmentation space. A brief overview of media and art in Bosnia", ISEA Newsletter #93, 2003. [470]

Romania[edit]

  • Eliza Deac, "On the matter of language in digital works", 2010. [471]
  • Calin Dan, "Media Arts Get Media Free: A Small Anthology of Older Views", in: Transitland: Video Art From Central and Eastern Europe: 1989-2009, 2009.

Bulgaria[edit]

Albania[edit]

Lithuania[edit]

  • Renata Šukaitytė, "New Media Art in Lithuania", Athena: Philosophical Studies (3/2008). [472], [473]
  • Renata Šukautytė, "Media art as a scientific-experimental space. The case of Lithuanian, Latvian and Estonian art in the 20th (2nd part)–21st centuries", Menotyra, vol 15, Nr 2, 2008, pp 50-61. [474]
  • Face the Unexpected: Media Art from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, catalogue, 2006, [475]

Latvia[edit]

  • Acoustic space, 1998 and 1999. Net audio publications. Both issues are collections of net activists writtings, presentations and interviews focusing on subjects of networking, media culture theory, models of collaboation and exchanging experience in technological and creative process. Both issues are complemented by presentation of on media culture projects in Latvia and projects developed by international collaborative organisations and individuals.
  • Māra Traumane, "Words - Worlds. New Media in Latvia", Mare Articum 2 (7), 2000. Includes interview with members of E-Lab. [476]
  • Māra Traumane, "The Question of Changes: The 1990s in Latvian Art", 2002. [477]
  • Māra Traumane, "Interview with Mara Traumane on her research in Latvia". [478]
  • Face the Unexpected: Media Art from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, catalogue, 2006, [479]

Estonia[edit]

  • Raivo Kelomees, "Kunstiserverid ja võrgukunstniku argileib" [Art Servers and Daily Bread of Net.Artist], 1998, [480]
  • Estonica encyclopedia, "Contemporary technologies and art". [481]
  • Face the Unexpected: Media Art from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, catalogue, 2006, [482]
  • Estonica encyclopedia, "Time of re-independence — the 1990s in art". [483]
  • Raivo Kelomees, "The State of Estonian Media Art AD 1998", in: Estonian Art, nr 1, 1998. [484]
  • Katrin Kivimaa, "Eine Identität or Keine Identität: Zeitgenössische Kunst und Neue Medien in Estland", Springerin 1999 (German), 5 pages.
  • Katrin Kivimaa, "Changing spaces: new media/art in Estonian Culture", Mare Articum 2 (7), 2000. 30 pages. [485]
  • Hanno Soans and Anders Härm, "We Are Glad it's All Over", 2002. [486] [487]
  • Katrin Kivimaa (ed.), Avalöök: uus meedia ja kunst Eestis [Opening acts: new media and art in Estonia], Estonian Academy of Arts, 2004. (Estonian), 108 pages, ISBN 998594657X
  • Raivo Kelomees, Meediakunsti ajalugu ja elektroonilise kunsti probleemid [History and Problems of Media Art]. Media art history teaching tool, 1996/99. [488] [489]

Ukraine[edit]

  • Ianina Prudenko. "Media Art in Ukraine: The state of the theory and practice". May 2011. [490] [491]
  • Ianina Prudenko. "Współczesna sztuka ukraińska i nowe technologie". Sierpień/wrzesień 2009. [492]
  • Aaron Moulton. "A Revolution on Standby. Author Aaron Moulton tries a 72 Hours jump into Kiev's Contemporary Art scene". August 2007. [493]
  • Katya Stukalova, "In Expectation of Reloading: Ukrainian Media Art", 2005. (English, Czech, Spanish). [494] [495]
  • Galina Miazhevich, "Recent Developments in the Post-Soviet New Media: Ukraine and Belarus", presented at the F3 RuNet in a Global Context conference, 2011. [496]
  • Ianina Prudenko, "Ukrainian Media Art: Twenty Years of Experience", 3/4 27/28, 2012. (English/Slovak)

See also[edit]

Colophon[edit]

The first phase of this research (2009-11) was supported by cOL-mE, International Visegrad Fund, and ERSTE Foundation.

Contributors include Dušan Barok, Guy van Belle, Nina Czegledy, Lenka Dolanová, Eva Krátká, Magdaléna Kobzová, Barbora Šedivá, Joanna Walewska, Darko Fritz, Miro A. Cimerman, Matko Meštrović, Paul Stubbs, Rarita Szakats, Călin Man, Raluca Velisar, Miklós Peternák, János Sugár, Pit Schultz, Diana McCarty, Barbara Huber, Maxigas, Miloš Vojtěchovský, Grzegorz Klaman, František Zachoval, Sølve N.T. Lauvås, and many others.