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Art and Theory After Socialism Mel Jordan (Coventry University, UK)

Art and Theory After Socialism By Mel Jordan (Coventry University, UK)

Art and Theory After Socialism by Mel Jordan (Coventry University, UK)

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This book focuses on the overlap of art and everyday life post-cold war. It investigates what happens when theories of art from the former East and West collide, parsing the work of Soviet bloc artists alongside their western counterparts. The authors conclude that the liberation of the West fell prey to global conflict and high-risk situations.

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Art and Theory After Socialism by Mel Jordan (Coventry University, UK)

Art, theory, and criticism faced radical new challenges after the end of the cold war. Art and Theory After Socialism investigates what happens when theories of art from the former East and the former West collide, parsing the work of former Soviet bloc artists alongside that of their western counterparts. Mel Jordan and Malcolm Miles conclude that the dreams promised by capitalism have not been delivered in Eastern Europe, and likewise, the democratic liberation of the West has fallen prey to global conflict and high-risk situations. This volume is a revolutionary take on the overlap of art and everyday life in a post-cold war world.

About Mel Jordan (Coventry University, UK)

Mel Jordan teaches fine art at Goldsmiths College, University of London, and the University of Wolverhampton.
Malcolm Miles is reader in cultural theory at the University of Plymouth.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: 'From Shamed to Famed - The Transition of a Former Eastern German Arts Academy to the Talent Hotbed of a Contemporary Painter's School. The Hochschule fur Grafik und Buchkunst, Leipzig' - Page 9 - Sophie A. Gerlach Chapter 2: 'Attacking Objectification: Jerry Beres in Dialogue with Marcel Duchamp' - Page 21 - Klara Kemp-Welch Chapter 3: 'On the Ruins of a Utopia: Armernian Avant-Garde and the Group Act' - Page 33 - Angela Harutyunyan Chapter 4: 'Art Communities, Public Spaces and Colective Actions in Armenian Contemporary Art' - Page 43 - Vardan Azatyan Chapter 5: 'Appropriating the Ex-Cold War' - Page 55 - Malcolm Miles Chapter 6: 'The End of an Idea: On Art, Horizons and the Post-Socialist Condition' - Page 67 - Simon Sheikh Chapter 7: 'Exploring Critiical and Political Art in the United Kingdom and Serbia' - Page 77 - Sophie Hope & Marko Stamenkovic Chapter 8: 'Other Landscapes (for Weimar, Goethe and Schiller)' - Page 89 - Daniela Brasil Chapter 9: 'The Ecology of Post-Socialism and the Implications of Sustainability for Contemporary Art' - Page 101 - Maja Fowkes and Reuben Fowkes Chapter 10: 'Functions, Functionalism and Functionlessness: On the Social Function of Public Art after Modernism' - Page 113 - Freee Art Collective

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GOR013557004
9781841502113
1841502111
Art and Theory After Socialism by Mel Jordan (Coventry University, UK)
Mel Jordan (Coventry University, UK)
Used - Like New
Paperback
Intellect Books
20081215
144
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