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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822268603321

Titolo

Postmodernism and the postsocialist condition : politicized art under late socialism / / edited by Ale?s Erjavec ; with a foreword by Martin Jay and contributions by Boris Groys ... [et al.]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2003

ISBN

1-282-35679-8

0-520-92855-5

9786612356797

1-59734-825-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (320 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

ErjavecAle?s

Gro?isBoris

Disciplina

709/.171/709049

Soggetti

Art - Political aspects

Postmodernism

Socialism and art

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Introduction; The Other Gaze: Russian Unofficial Art's View of the Soviet World; Art as a Political Machine: Fragments on the Late Socialist and Postsocialist Art of Mitteleuropa and the Balkans; Neue Slowenische Kunst-New Slovenian Art: Slovenia, Yugoslavia, Self-Management, and the 1980's; Hungarian Marginal Art in the Late Period of State Socialism; The New Cuban Art; Post-Utopian Avant-Garde Art in China; List of Contributors; Index;

Sommario/riassunto

The Berlin Wall was coming down, the Soviet Union was dissolving, Communist China was well on its way down the capitalist path; the world was witnessing political and social transformations without precedent. Artists, seeing it all firsthand, responded with a revolution of their own. What form this revolution took-how artists in the 1980's marked their societies' traumatic transition from decaying socialism to an insecure future-emerges in this remarkable volume. With in-depth perspectives on art and artists in the former Soviet Union, the Balkans



and Mitteleuropa, China, and Cuba-all from...