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Networking the Bloc: Experimental Art in Eastern Europe 1965-1981

Networking the Bloc: Experimental Art in Eastern Europe 1965-1981

Kemp-Welch, Klara

Hardcover

Russian & Former Soviet Union Art

Publisher Price: $49.95

ISBN10: 0262038307
ISBN13: 9780262038300
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: Feb 12 2019
Pages: 480
Weight: 3.00
Height: 1.20 Width: 7.20 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
The story of the experimental zeitgeist in Eastern European art, seen through personal encounters, pioneering dialogues, collaborative projects, and cultural exchanges.

Throughout the 1970s, a network of artists emerged to bridge the East-West divide, and the no less rigid divides between the countries of the Eastern bloc. Originating with a series of creative initiatives by artists, art historians, and critics and centered in places like Budapest, Poznań, and Prague, this experimental dialogue involved Western participation but is today largely forgotten in the West. In Networking the Bloc, Klara Kemp-Welch vividly recaptures this lost chapter of art history, documenting an elaborate web of artistic connectivity that came about through a series of personal encounters, pioneering dialogues, collaborative projects, and cultural exchanges. Countering the conventional Cold War narrative of Eastern bloc isolation, Kemp-Welch shows how artistic ideas were relayed among like-minded artists across ideological boundaries and national frontiers.

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