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This book addresses late-Soviet and post-Soviet art in Armenia in
the context of turbulent transformations from the late 1980s to
2004. It explores the emergence of 'contemporary art' in Armenia
from within and in opposition to the practices, aesthetics and
institutions of Socialist Realism and National Modernism. This
historical study outlines the politics (liberal democracy),
aesthetics (autonomous art secured by the gesture of the individual
artist), and ethics (ideals of absolute freedom and radical
individualism) of contemporary art in Armenia and points towards
its limitations. Through the historical investigation, a theory of
post-Soviet art historiography is developed, one that is based on a
dialectic of rupture and continuity in relation to the Soviet past.
As the first English-language study on contemporary art in Armenia,
the book is of prime interest for artists, scholars, curators and
critics interested in post-Soviet art and culture and in global art
historiography. -- .
The concept of a public sphere has traditionally been associated
with urban spaces. Public Spheres After Socialism contests this in
light of shifts of perspective in the East and West after the end
of the Cold War and the disintegration of the Soviet Union.Public
Spheres After Socialism draws together contemporary experiences
from Armenia - an interesting site of cultural and political
cross-currents - Germany, Austria, France and the United Kingdom.
It reconsiders the concept of a public sphere as a figurative, or
mythical, location in which the members of a society shape and
determine its values and ask to what extent this public sphere
exists or is viable today. Among the ideas presented in this
groundbreaking volume are the cultures of public time, everyday
memorials, urban reconstruction, film as a dialogic site, and the
mapping of a post-socialist city in youth culture.Esteemed
academics cover a wide range of issues, including public spaces and
monuments, urban reconstruction, film, new media and communication.
They explore the major shifts in theory and consider how the
dualism of the Cold War has been replaced by the single ideological
position of globalized consumerism.
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