LEADER 03732nam 22006135 450 001 9910483938003321 005 20230811004432.0 010 $a9789813365742 010 $a9813365749 024 7 $a10.1007/978-981-33-6574-2 035 $a(CKB)4100000011772834 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6480832 035 $a(DE-He213)978-981-33-6574-2 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011772834 100 $a20210216d2021 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aIn the Sphere of The Soviets $eEssays on the Cultural Legacy of the Soviet Union /$fby Charles Merewether 205 $a1st ed. 2021. 210 1$aSingapore :$cSpringer Nature Singapore :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2021. 215 $a1 online resource 311 08$a9789813365735 311 08$a9813365730 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aChapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Specter of the Soviet Union -- Chapter 3: The Thaw: After Stalin, Soviet Union and Ukraine -- Chapter 4: State of Play: Georgian art before/after independence -- Chapter 5: Rise and Fall of Monuments -- Chapter 6: Contemporary Russia -- Chapter 7: After Maidan: Contemporary Ukraine -- Chapter 8: Contemporary Georgia: Here and There -- Chapter 9: Lost to the Future: Central Asia -- Chapter 10: Towards a Horizontality (Memory, Margins and Borders) -- Chapter 11: Russian Affinities and its Correspondences -- Chapter 12: The Interactivity of Energies and Montage. 330 $aThis book is distinctive in exploring Eastern European art since World War Two. It focuses on the period after Stalin, covering the response by and legacy of Soviet domination of the region, especially looking at the Soviet Union, Ukraine, Georgia, Central Asia and influence of Russia/Soviet Union in Asia. It explores the theoretical models developed for understanding contemporary art across Eastern Europe and pays attention to the new generation of Georgian artists who emerged in the immediate years before and after the country's independence from the Soviet Union; the Ukrainian artists after the events of Maidan in 2014 and legacy and debates around monuments across Eastern Europe. Dr. Charles Merewether is an art historian, the author and the curator who has worked in Asia, Australia, Europe and the Americas. Merewether has worked and lived in Tbilisi, Georgia, over the past 4 years. He is the author of books and many articles about contemporary art, including his books State of Play (2017), After Memory: The Art of Milenko Prvacki and Under Construction: Ai Weiwei (2008). He was the co-editor of After the Event (2010) and the editor of both Art, Anti-Art, Non-Art: Experimentations in the Public Sphere in Postwar Japan 1950-1970, (2007) and The Archive (2006). . 606 $aRussia$xHistory 606 $aEurope, Eastern$xHistory 606 $aSoviet Union$xHistory 606 $aCivilization$xHistory 606 $aArt$xHistory 606 $aRussian, Soviet, and East European History 606 $aCultural History 606 $aArt History 615 0$aRussia$xHistory. 615 0$aEurope, Eastern$xHistory. 615 0$aSoviet Union$xHistory. 615 0$aCivilization$xHistory. 615 0$aArt$xHistory. 615 14$aRussian, Soviet, and East European History. 615 24$aCultural History. 615 24$aArt History. 676 $a709.4709045 700 $aMerewether$b Charles$01229710 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910483938003321 996 $aIn the sphere of the soviets$92854481 997 $aUNINA