"This crucial study presents an epic narrative of how postmodernism
gave the artists of Eastern and Central Europe the expressive means
to work their way out from the ruins of state socialism into the
global art world in which their compatriots in the West are
themselves struggling to find their identity. The authors bring to
consciousness the art history of the present from important and
unsuspected perspectives. This is not just a book for
specialists-it is for everyone who lives the life of art in
unprecedented times."--Arthur C. Danto, author of "After the End of
Art: Contemporary Art and the Pale of History
"A fascinating document in the understanding of one of the
decisive cultural moments in the postmodern world. The book's
diversity of approaches illuminates both postmodern art and
politics from a distinctive angle. Postmodernism and the
Postsocialist Condition is likely to become a significant primary
source for future cultural historians."--Paul Crowther, author of
"The Transhistorical Image: Philosophizing Art and Its History
"This fine volume deals with the postmodernist approaches that
helped artists and intellectuals cope with political reality after
socialism and provided the means to face the cultural vacuum
without regressing to premodern attitudes. The book suggests that
dissenting voices have a better chance to be heard in smaller
countries like Hungary, Cuba, Slovenia, and other republics of the
former Yugoslavia. It should indeed make us pay more attention to
what has happened and is happening in these countries as well as in
larger countries like Russia and China."--Wolfgang Welsch, author
of "Undoing Aesthetics
"This collection genuinely crackles withvitality. Tracking
postmodernism far away from the canonical centers of the modern, it
presents an exhilarating patchwork of mythic repetitions,
sociopolitical reflections, and sheer creative
exuberance."--Stephen Bann, University of Bristol
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