基本説明
With a Foreword by Martin jay and Contributions by Boris Groys, Misko Suvakovic, Ales Erjavec, Péter György, Gerardo Mosquera, and Gao Minglu. Shows how artists in the 1980s marked their societies' traumatic transition from decaying socialism to an insecure future.
"Ah Ahmanson-Murphy Fine Arts Book"
Full Description
The Berlin Wall was coming down, the Soviet Union was dissolving, Communist China was well on its way down the capitalist path; the world was witnessing political and social transformations without precedent. Artists, seeing it all firsthand, responded with a revolution of their own. What form this revolution took--how artists in the 1980s marked their societies' traumatic transition from decaying socialism to an insecure future--emerges in this remarkable volume. With in-depth perspectives on art and artists in the former Soviet Union, the Balkans and Mitteleuropa, China, and Cuba--all from scholars and art critics who were players in the tumultuous cultural landscapes they describe--this stunningly illustrated collection captures a singular period in the history of world art, and a critical moment in the cultural and political transition from the last century to our own. Authors Ales Erjavec, Gao Minglu, Boris Groys, Peter Gyorgy, Gerardo Mosquera, and Misko Suvakovic observe distinct national differences in artistic responses to the social and political challenges of the time.But their essays also reveal a clear pattern in the ways in which artists registered the exhaustion of the socialist vision and absorbed the influence of art movements such as constructivism, pop art, and conceptual art, as well as the provocations of western pop culture. Indebted to but not derived from capitalist postmodernism, the result was a unique version of postsocialist postmodernism, an artistic/political innovation clearly identified and illustrated for the first time in these pages.
Contents
List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Foreword Martin Jay Introduction Ales Erjavec The Other Gaze: Russian Unofficial Art's View of the Soviet World Boris Groys Art as a Political Machine: Fragments on the Late Socialist and Postsocialist Art of Mitteleuropa and the Balkans Misko Suvakovic Neue Slowenische Kunst--New Slovenian Art: Slovenia, Yugoslavia, Self-Management, and the 1980s Ales Erjavec Hungarian Marginal Art in the Late Period of State Socialism Peter Gyorgy The New Cuban Art 208 Gerardo Mosquera Post-Utopian Avant-Garde Art in China Gao Minglu List of Contributors Index
