IDEA Arts + Society (2003–) [Romanian/English]

Idea 36-37, 2010

Idea 35, 2010

“IDEA art+society is a multiannual publication produced by IDEA, Cluj. It is published under its current form since 2003.

Allegiance to the exigency of genuine theory – a theory which is, first of all, its own practice – this is the program of IDEA arts+society magazine. This means: the practice of the concerned eye, which can be rigorous solely through the unconditional solidarity with the concrete. It is a practice of thinking which is alien to any aestheticism, hostile to any institutionalized transcendence, immune to the biased fiction of ideological neutrality, and remote from the pernicious language of our contemporary culture of ‘experts.’ In brief, it is the practice of critical and defiant reflection, dramatically lacking in the intellectual-civic debates of present-day Romania.

The graphical and logical operator ‘+’ functions as the material figura of all these dimensions, to which we can add artistic education and the public influence of art. The various ways of deciphering this sign suggest the manifold articulations between the artistic and the social realm. That is, the political.”

IDEA artă + societate / IDEA arts + society
Editors: Bogdan Ghiu, Ciprian Mureșan, Timotei Nădășan (editor-in-chief), Alexandru Polgár, Adrian T. Sîrbu, Ovidiu Țichindeleanu, Raluca Voinea
ISSN 1583–8293

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Mik journal, Nr. 3: Art and Politics: Case-Studies from Eastern Europe (2007) [English/Lithuanian]

“The third volume of the Art History & Criticism journal includes articles based on the proceedings of the international conference Art and Politics: Case-Studies from Eastern Europe organised by the Art Institute, Vytautas Magnus University in 26-27 October 2006. Thirty scholars – from Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Poland, Czech Republic, Croatia, Romania, France, Germany, the UK, and the USA – presented papers focused upon one aspect of the European history and culture, namely the former Eastern bloc and its Soviet past as well as quotidian post-Soviet reality. Participants of the Kaunas conference discussed one of the most challenging issues of the field – art and politics.” (from Preface)

Meno istorija ir kritika / Art History & Criticism journal
Issue: Menas ir politika: Rytų Europos atvejai / Art and Politics: Case-Studies from Eastern Europe, 2007
Editor-in-chief: Vytautas Levandauskas
Publisher: Vytauto Didžiojo universitetas / Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas, Lithuania
ISSN 1822-4555
232 pages

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Karabogdan, Klobučar (eds.): Enigma of the Object: A Collection of Theoretical Writings (2006) [English, Croatian]

The reader published as part of the presentation of the work Enigma of the object presented within the Biennial of Quadrilateral: Relativism exhibition in the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rijeka, Croatia, 15.12.2005-26.2.2006.

Contributions by Mieke Bal, Nada Beroš, Zoran Erić, Marina Gržinić, Bojana Kunst, Tomislav Medak, Petar Milat, Žarko Paić, Ana Peraica, Nataša Petrešin, Zoran Roško, Marko Stamenković, Miško Šuvaković, Šefik Tatlić, Ana Vujanović.

Enigma objekta – Zbornik teorijskih tekstova / Enigma of the Object – A Collection of Theoretical Writings
Editors: Gordan Karabogdan, Nikica Klobučar
Publisher: Personal edition: Gordan Karabogdan and Nikica Klobučar, Zagreb, 2006.
ISBN 953-95352-0-4
148 pages

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