The Postsocialist Contemporary - The Institutionalization of Artistic Practice in Eastern Europe After 1989 (Hardcover)

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. -- .

General

Imprint:	Manchester University Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Rethinking Art's Histories
Release date:	November 2021
First published:	2021
Authors:	Octavian Esanu
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	288
ISBN-13:	978-1-5261-5800-0
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > From 1900 > Art styles, 1960 - > General Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
LSN:	1-5261-5800-0
Barcode:	9781526158000

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