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Socially Engaged Art after Socialism - Art and Civil Society in Central and Eastern Europe (Paperback)
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Socially Engaged Art after Socialism - Art and Civil Society in Central and Eastern Europe (Paperback)
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The post-1989 period has seen artists in Central and Eastern Europe
embrace socially engaged practices. Reclaiming public life from the
ideologies of both communist regimes and neoliberalism, their
projects have harnessed the politically subversive potential of
social relations based on trust, reciprocity and solidarity.
Drawing on archival material and exclusive interviews, in this book
Izabel Galliera traces the development of socially engaged art from
the early 1990s to the present in Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania.
She demonstrates that, in the early 1990s, projects were primarily
created for exhibitions organized and funded by the Soros Centers
for Contemporary Art. In the early 2000s, prior to Bulgaria,
Hungary and Romania entering into the European Union, EU
institutions likewise funded socially-conscious public art in the
region. Today, socially engaged art is characterised by the
proliferation of independent and often self-funded artists'
initiatives in cities such as Sofia, Bucharest and Budapest.
Focusing on the relationships between art, social capital and civil
society, Galliera employs sociological and political theories to
reveal that, while social capital is generally considered a
mechanism of exclusion in the West, in post-socialist contexts it
has been leveraged by artists and curators as a vital means of
communication and action.
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