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

• Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2003
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (320 p.)
• Disciplina: 709/.171/709049
• Soggetto topico: Art - Political aspects; Postmodernism; Socialism and art
• Soggetto non controllato: 20th century art history; art history; art; artists; avant garde art; capitalist postmodernism; china; conceptual art; constructivism; cuba; cultural studies; former soviet union; governments and governing; mitteleuropa; new slovenia; political changes; pop art; post utopia; postmodern art; postmodernism; postsocialist postmodernism; self management; social changes; socialism; state socialism; the balkans; western pop culture; world art; yugoslavia
• Altri autori: ErjavecAle?s Gro?isBoris
• 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...
• Titolo autorizzato: Postmodernism and the postsocialist condition
• ISBN: 1-282-35679-8; 0-520-92855-5; 9786612356797; 1-59734-825-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910780457203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II