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Transitional Aesthetics - Contemporary Art at the Edge of Europe (Paperback)
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Transitional Aesthetics - Contemporary Art at the Edge of Europe (Paperback)
Series: Radical Aesthetics-Radical Art
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Using the way in which artists from the former Eastern bloc
perceive the experience of EU integration and transition from a
Soviet past as a conceptual launching pad, this book explores how
artists critically inhabit a permanent state of 'in-between' to
capture the simultaneous existence of multiple and overlapping
temporalities. Transitional aesthetics are artistic strategies that
disrupt and interrogate ideologically loaded trajectories of
cultural, social, or political transition. Examples of such
trajectories include the movement from totalitarianism to democracy
(post-socialism), from war to freedom and reconciliation
(post-conflict), and from the edges of Europe to its centre
(inclusion in the European Union). These transitional states
include: the future orientation of (failed) socialism and the
perpetual present of global capital; the history of unresolved past
conflicts and reconciliation through 'transitional justice';
nationalist obsessions with the past and the cultural appeal of
kitsch and retro objects in fashion, film and music; and the
uncertain future promise of EU membership and resurgence of global
right-wing populism, headed by figures like Berlusconi, Le Pen, and
Trump. Transitional Aesthetics shows that apprehending time in
contemporary art is fundamental to capturing the lived experience
of a permanent state of instability; particularly relevant to
Europe in the contemporary moment. In a world that has entered
'accelerated transition' towards instability, understanding this
experience has broad and resonating relevance for politics, art and
society.
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