Esanu The postsocialist contemporary

The institutionalization of artistic practice in Eastern Europe after 1989
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-5261-5801-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 296 Seiten

Reihe: Rethinking Art's Histories

This book engages with the historical paradigm of ‘contemporary art’ by examining a programme initiated in Eastern Europe by the Hungarian-American billionaire George Soros in the 1990s. The Soros Centers for Contemporary Art played a leading role in popularising the norms and conventions of ‘contemporary art’ throughout the region.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Esanu, Octavian

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
1 Sorosart: how Eastern Europe got the idea of contemporary art
2 New norms and procedures: the introduction of the curatorial function
3 Art in the 'open society': the aesthetics of problem-solving
4 Antipolitics: the ideological bedrock of the postsocialist contemporary
5 Can there be contemporary art in North Korea? Methodological epilogue
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Octavian Esanu is Associate Professor in the Department of Art and Art History at the American University of Beirut (AUB) and Curator of AUB Art Galleries