Networking the Bloc - Experimental Art in Eastern Europe 1965-1981 (Kemp-Welch Klara (Lecturer The Courtauld Institute of Art))(Pevná vazba)

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. Originating with a series of creative initiatives by artists, art historians, and critics and centered in places like Budapest, Poznan, 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
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