Rethinking Art's Histories #: The Postsocialist Contemporary

The Institutionalization of Artistic Practice in Eastern Europe After 1989

Rethinking Art's Histories #: The Postsocialist Contemporary
Octavian Esanu
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23 Nov 2021 UK
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9781526158000
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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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Octavian Esanu is Professor of Art History at the American University of Beirut (AUB) and Curator of AUB Art Galleries
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ISBN-13: 9781526158000
Published: 23 Nov 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Format: Hardback
Height: 234mm
Width: 156mm
Pages: 288

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