Jérôme Bazin, Pascal Dubourg Glatigny, Piotr Piotrowski (eds.): Art beyond Borders: Artistic Exchange in Communist Europe, 1945-1989 (2016)

“This book presents and analyzes artistic interactions both within the Soviet bloc and with the West between 1945 and 1989. During the Cold War the exchange of artistic ideas and products united Europe’s avant-garde in a most remarkable way. Despite the Iron Curtain and national and political borders there existed a constant flow of artists, artworks, artistic ideas and practices. The geographic borders of these exchanges have yet to be clearly defined. How were networks, centers, peripheries (local, national and international), scales, and distances constructed? How did (neo)avant-garde tendencies relate with officially sanctioned socialist realism?

The literature on the art of Eastern Europe provides a great deal of factual knowledge about a vast cultural space, but mostly through the prism of stereotypes and national preoccupations. By discussing artworks, studying the writings on art, observing artistic evolution and artists’ strategies, as well as the influence of political authorities, art dealers and art critics, the essays in Art beyond Borders compose a transnational history of arts in the Soviet satellite countries in the post war period.”

Publisher CEU Press, Budapest/New York, 2016
Leipzig Studies on the History and Culture of East-Central Europe series, 3
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ISBN 9789633860830, 9633860830
xii+494+24 pages
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Removed From the Crowd: Unexpected Encounters 1 (2011)

“Bringing together newly commissioned essays predominantly from an emerging generation of researchers and writers, this reader focuses on conceptual and experimental artistic, curatorial and institutional practices that have rarely or never been brought into relation with potential parallels outside their respective context, in this case Latvia, Slovenia, Croatia, Hungary, Chile, Peru, Poland and Romania.

The discussed practices explored the interstices between the collective and individual, private and public, action and escapism, art and non-art, artist and curator, nature and urban space, the visible and the invisible. Many of them were taking place in private spaces, in solitude, in nature, or camouflaging themselves as non-art, as part of everyday life, a protest, a crowded street, radically redefining or ignoring the idea of audience.”

Edited by Ivana Bago and Antonia Majača with Vesna Vuković
Publisher BLOK & DeLVe, Zagreb, 2011
ISBN 9539531748, 9789539531742
312 pages

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WHW, tranzit.hu, Muzeum Sztuki w Łodzi, kuda.org (eds.): Art Always Has Its Consequences (2010)

“The publication is a result and a recapitulation a two-year collaborative platform that explored practices through which art reaches its audience and their significance for broader relations between art and society, focusing on four thematic strands: the history of exhibitions, artists’ texts, conceptual design, typography, and institutional archives. The book consists of three chapters; the first chapter contains of a chronology of the overall project events and exhibitions of the past two years. The second chapter is a reader of newly commissioned essays and reprints of relevant historical texts written or selected for the book around the issue of the former East. The third section is a documentation of the closing exhibition in Zagreb.”

Essays and interviews by G. M. Tamás, kuda.org & Hito Steyerl, Ovidiu Tichindeleanu, Renata Salecl, Boris Buden, Ozren Pupovac, Maciej Gdula, Gal Kirn, Hedwig Saxenhuber, Elena Filipovic.

Artist’s writings and documents from Miklós Erdély, Dóra Maurer, Goran Đorđević, Andreas Fogarasi, Guerilla Art Action Group, Tibor Hajas, Sanja Iveković, Andreja Kulunčić, David Maljković, Dimitrije Bašičević Mangelos, Vlado Martek, Piet Mondrian, Ciprian Mureşan, Deimantas Narkevičius, Novi Kolektivizam, Andrzej Partum, Gyula Pauer, Tamás St.Auby, Tomo Savić – Gecan, Sean Snyder, Mladen Stilinović, Bálint Szombathy, Milan Trenc, Ultra-red, GEFF, Radoslav Putar, and Symposium Wroclaw ’70.

Edited by What, How & for Whom/WHW [Ivet Ćurlin, Ana Dević, Nataša Ilić, Sabina Sabolović], Dóra Hegyi & Zsuzsa László [tranzit.hu], Magdalena Ziółkowska & Katarzyna Słoboda [Muzeum Sztuki w Łodzi], and new media center_kuda.org
Publisher What, How & for Whom/WHW, Zagreb, 2010
ISBN 9535595113, 9789535595113
265 pages
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