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Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 12 February 2019
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11362.001.0001
EISBN: 9780262347709
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. Much of the work created was collaborative, and personal encounters were at its heart. Drawing on archival documents and interviews with participants, Kemp-Welch focuses on the exchanges and projects themselves rather than the personalities involved. Each of the projects she examines relied for its realization on a network of contributors. She looks first at the mobilization of the network, from 1964 to 1972, exploring five pioneering cases: a friendship between a Slovak artist and a French critic, an artistic credo, an exhibition, a conceptual proposition, and a book. She then charts a series of way stations for experimental art from the Soviet bloc between 1972 and 1976—points of distribution between studios, private homes, galleries, and certain cities. Finally, she investigates convergences—a succession of shared exhibitions and events in the second half of the 1970s in locations ranging from Prague to Milan to Moscow. Networking the Bloc , Kemp-Welch invites us to rethink the art of the late Cold War period from Eastern European perspectives.
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 12 February 2019
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11362.003.0011
EISBN: 9780262347709
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 12 February 2019
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11362.003.0012
EISBN: 9780262347709
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 12 February 2019
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11362.003.0013
EISBN: 9780262347709
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 12 February 2019
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11362.003.0014
EISBN: 9780262347709
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 12 February 2019
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11362.003.0015
EISBN: 9780262347709
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 12 February 2019
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11362.003.0016
EISBN: 9780262347709
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 12 February 2019
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11362.003.0017
EISBN: 9780262347709
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 12 February 2019
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11362.003.0018
EISBN: 9780262347709
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 12 February 2019
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11362.003.0019
EISBN: 9780262347709
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 12 February 2019
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11362.003.0020
EISBN: 9780262347709
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 12 February 2019
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11362.003.0021
EISBN: 9780262347709
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 12 February 2019
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11362.003.0022
EISBN: 9780262347709
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 12 February 2019
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11362.003.0001
EISBN: 9780262347709
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 12 February 2019
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11362.003.0002
EISBN: 9780262347709
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 12 February 2019
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11362.003.0003
EISBN: 9780262347709
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 12 February 2019
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11362.003.0004
EISBN: 9780262347709
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 12 February 2019
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11362.003.0005
EISBN: 9780262347709
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 12 February 2019
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11362.003.0006
EISBN: 9780262347709
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 12 February 2019
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11362.003.0007
EISBN: 9780262347709