UID:
edocfu_9958066474902883
Format:
1 online resource (320 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-282-35679-8
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0-520-92855-5
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9786612356797
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1-59734-825-2
Content:
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...
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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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;
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-520-23334-4
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1525/9780520928558
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