ABSTRACT
This edited collection reassesses East-Central European art by offering transnational perspectives on its regional or national histories, while also inserting the region into contemporary discussions of global issues. Both in popular imagination and, to some degree, scholarly literature, East-Central Europe is persistently imagined as a hermetically isolated cultural landscape. This book restores the diverse ways in which East-Central European art has always been entangled with actors and institutions in the wider world. The contributors engage with empirically anchored and theoretically argued case studies from historical periods representing notable junctures of globalization: the early modern period, the age of Empires, the time of socialist rule and the global Cold War, and the most recent decades of postsocialism understood as a global condition.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |22 pages
Introduction—Globalizing East European Art Histories
part I|57 pages
Challenging the National Container
chapter 3|11 pages
From Fringe Interest to Hegemony
part II|52 pages
Hybridity
chapter 6|15 pages
Eastern Europeanizing Globalization
chapter 7|19 pages
Modernism on the Margins
part |1 pages
Plates
part III|42 pages
Global Communities and the Traffic in Ideas
chapter 9|13 pages
“Our Imaginings Unite with Reality”
chapter 10|13 pages
Transculturation, Cultural Transfer, and the Colonial Matrix of Power on the Cold War Margins
part IV|41 pages
Contemporary Art Praxis and the Production of Discourses