Claire Bishop, Marta Dziewańska (eds.): 1968-1989: Political Upheaval and Artistic Change (2010)

“This volume comprises a selection of texts and presentations from a seminar organized in Warsaw in 2008 by the Museum of Modern Art with art historian Claire Bishop that presented a comparative reflection of Western and Eastern European evaluations of the artistic significance of 1968 and the transformations of 1989, which saw the end of the Soviet empire. The essays presented here explore the extent to which political change affects the form, medium, and distribution of visual art; explains the differences among artistic practices that appear similar but arose in diverse political and ideological contexts; and considers the possibility and desirability of writing a European art history that brings together East and West.”

With contributions by Claire Bishop, Tania Brugera, Branislav Jakoljević, Ana Janevski, Vit Havránek, Tomáš Pospiszyl, Luiza Nader, Gabriela Świtek, Piotr Piotrowski, Attila Tordai-S., Borut Vogelnik, Charles Esche, Kathrin Rhomberg, Joanna Mytkowska, Grzegorz Kowalski and Artur Źmikewski, Milan Knížák, and Ján Budaj.

Publisher Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, 2010
ISBN 9788392404408
232 (of 504) pages
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Andrey Kovalev: Russian Actionism, 1990-2000 (2007–) [RU, EN]

A survey of 450 performances, actions and happenings held in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg and elsewhere. Descriptions and photo documentation are accompanied by press coverage and testimonies of participants and witnesses.

A ten-page English summary published in Artchronika magazine is introduced as follows:

“The phrase “performance in the 1990s” immediately evokes several images: Oleg Kulik slaughtering a pig at Regina Gallery; Anatoly Osmolovsky sitting on the shoulder of the Mayakovsky monument; Oleg Kulik again, this time attacking passers-by like a rabid dog; Alexander Brener masturbating on the diving board at the Moscow swimming pool or calling out Boris Yeltsin to fight on Red Square; the barricade erected on Nikitskaya Ulitsa; members of the Radek group on top of Lenin’s mausoleum; the crucifixion of Oleg Mavromatti; and so on. These stories have become pure myth, retold with breathy excitement and longing for glory days lost to the past, or cited in various criminal court cases.”

Special issue of WAM (World Art Музей), 28-29, Moscow, 2007.
ISSN 1726-3050
416 pages

English excerpts
Published in Artchronika, Spring-Summer 2008, pp 108-117

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Российский акционизм. 1990-2000 (Russian, 2007, 21 MB)
Gestures of an Era, or the Era of Gestures (English, 2008)

Fluxus Virus, 1962-1992 (1992) [English/German]

Catalogue of an exhibition held in Cologne, containing essays on Fluxus by Ken Friedman, Peter Frank, Ina Conzen Meairs, Wilfried Dörstel/ Reier Steinberg, Hannah Higgins, Karen Moss, Owen Smith, David Doris, Dieter Daniels, Ina Blom, Mariane Hoffan, Michael Erlhoff, James Lewes, and Manfred de la Motte.

Edited by Ken Friedman
Publisher Galerie Schüppenhauer, Cologne, 1992
ISBN 3926226285, 9783926226280
399 pages
via VP

WorldCat

PDF, PDF (68 MB, no OCR)

For more on Fluxus see Monoskop wiki