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The Postsocialist Contemporary - The Institutionalization of Artistic Practice in Eastern Europe After 1989 (Hardcover)
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The Postsocialist Contemporary - The Institutionalization of Artistic Practice in Eastern Europe After 1989 (Hardcover)
Series: Rethinking Art's Histories
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The postsocialist contemporary joins a growing body of scholarship
debating the definition and nature of contemporary art. It comes to
these debates from a historicist perspective, taking as its point
of departure one particular art programme, initiated in Eastern
Europe by the Hungarian-American billionaire George Soros. First
implemented in Hungary, the Soros Center for Contemporary Art
(SCCA) expanded to another eighteen ex-socialist countries
throughout the 1990s. Its mission was to build a western 'open
society' by means of art. This book discusses how network managers
and artists participated in the construction of this new social
order by studying the programme's rise, evolution, impact and
broader ideological and political consequences. Rather than
recounting a history, its engages critically with 'contemporary
art' as the aesthetic paradigm of late-capitalist market democracy.
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