An Associative Art History: Comparative Studies of Neo-Avant-Gardes in a Bipolar World (Documents Series) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3037645172 ISBN 13: 9783037645178

Publisher: JRP|Editions, 2018

Synopsis

An Associative Art History searches for the place of Czech, Slovak and Eastern European postwar art in global history. Resisting the mere repetition of Western canonization, the publication aims not to fruitlessly compare East and West, but rather to decipher the circumstances under which artworks are created, theorized and compared to each other. How do Knížák, Kolar, Koller and Kovanda relate to Situationism, Minimalism and Fluxus? What does Jindrich Chalupeckŭ have to do with Clement Greenberg?

Czech art historian and curator Tomáš Pospiszyl recounts a history of contemporary Eastern European art by highlighting emblematic stories of the art scene’s protagonists, mixing personal anecdotes with artistic agendas. This collection of nine essays, on topics spanning from 1939 to 2013, proposes a new reading of the visual arts during the Iron Curtain era and after.

About this title

About the Author

Tomáš Pospiszyl (né en 1967) est critique, conservateur, historien de l'art et enseignant tchèque. Il a publié de nombreux ouvrages sur l'art des XXe et XXIe siècles et a coécrit, avec Laura Hoptman, Primary Documents: A Sourcebook for Eastern and Central European Art Since the 1950s (MIT Press, 2002). Il enseigne à L'Académie du film et à l'Académie des beaux-arts de Prague.

Edition details

• Publisher: JRP|Editions
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3037645172
• ISBN 13: 9783037645178
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 296
• Editor: Havránek Vit