East Art Map: Contemporary Art and Eastern Europe

East Art Map: Contemporary Art and Eastern Europe

East Art Map: Contemporary Art and Eastern Europe
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Editor: IRWIN
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2006-05-26
ISBN: 1846380057
Number of pages: 500
Publisher: Afterall

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Book Review: stimulating guide to the concealed
Summary: 4 Stars

This is a good book if you like art. From the American point of view it features dense art steeply mannered to suit an unfamiliar milieu. I find the featured art producers evocative of new ideas. There are many pictures, in art books there can always be more pictures. The text is okay, for an art book, not particularly ludicrous or pathetic like art books usually are. Since the book treats of artists I knew nothing about previously, I'm too ignorant to judge whether it should have had different emphases. IRWIN seems as correct as Laibach.

Summary of East Art Map: Contemporary Art and Eastern Europe

The artistic map of Europe contains different degrees of detail and resolution. Italy, France, and Spain are presented in fine grain, but the Balkan peninsula is little more than a vague outline. England, Germany, and Scandinavia have many features filled in, but to the east of Germany things are blurred. Until recently, cities like Sofia, Odessa, Skopje, and Belgrade had next to no definition. Further to the East, Moscow comes into focus, but this is no compensation for the Baltics, sentenced for the last half-century to blank space.In the West, virtually every move of the artist, the art market, and the art public is documented. But in Eastern Europe, no such system of documentation or communication exists. Instead, we encounter systems that are not only inaccessible to the West, but incongruous from one country to the next. Beside the official art histories there is often a whole series of stories and legends about "unofficial," unapproved art and artists. East Art Map: Contemporary Art and Eastern Europe is an ambitious attempt to reconstruct the missing histories of contemporary art in Eastern Europe from an East European and artistic perspective. It is perhaps the widest ranging art documentation project ever undertaken by the East on the East, involving a large network of artists, scholars, curators and critics coordinated by the IRWIN group over several years.The editors invited eminent art critics, curators, and artists to present up to ten crucial art projects produced in their respective countries over the past 50 years. The choice of the particular artworks (many of them reproduced in color), artists, and events, as well as their presentation, was left exclusively to the individual selectors. In addition, the editors asked experts from both East and West to provide longer texts offering cross-cultural perspectives on the art of both regions.Afterall Books are distributed by The MIT Press.

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