| Description |
1 online resource (208 pages) |
| Contents |
Front Cover -- Half Title -- frontispiece -- The Politics of Migration and Mobility in the Art World: Transnational Baltic Artistic Practices across Europe -- Copyright -- Table of contents -- List of Figures -- Introduction -- Transnational Artistic Practices of Migration and Mobility -- Creative European Mobilities and Migrations -- Moving Beyond the Binaries of Migration Literature -- Europe: A Space of Free Movement? -- A Renewed 'Mobilities Paradigm' -- Transnational Diasporas of Artistic Practices -- Diasporic Connections across Geographic and Ethnic Borders -- Chapter Outline -- Notes |
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1 Researching the Baltic States and Its Mobile Professionals: Context and Methodology -- Introduction -- Research Context on the Baltic States -- Researching Mobile Professionals -- Research Parameters -- A Mobile, Multisited Methodology -- Combining Visual Cultures and Social Science -- Notes -- 2 Cross-Cultural Exchange and Cultural Transition in the Baltic Art Worlds -- Introduction -- Historical and Cultural Context of the Baltic States -- Cross-Border Travel and Communication in the Soviet Union -- Total Break or Gradual Shift in Art and Culture after 1991 |
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EU and Government Funding since Independence and EU Accession -- Current Transitions in the Baltic Art Worlds: Transnational Ties -- Notes -- 3 The Nature of Artists' Work: Getting onto the Global Art Market -- Introduction -- The Global Art Market -- Developing Art Markets in the Baltic States -- 'Routes' onto the Global Art Market -- On Being 'A Global Man' -- Transnational Lives in Hypermobility -- Mobility after Migration -- Return Migration and Transnational Networks -- Notes -- 4 Artists' Homescapes and 'Homing Aesthetics' -- Introduction -- Visualizing Cultural Transitions |
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Feeling 'At Home' Abroad -- Travel Heightens Attachments to Homeland -- Cross-Cultural Influences in Artwork -- Multiple Roots -- Notes -- Conclusion -- Overview -- Patterns of Movement: Types, Motives, Directions and Speeds -- Transition in Tallinn, Riga and Vilnius Art Scenes -- Beyond Ethnic Diasporas -- Reconceptualizing the Notion of 'Home' -- Final Thoughts -- Appendices -- References -- Index -- Back Cover |
| Summary |
Explores the nature of artistic practices for highly mobile artists from the Baltic States, moving regularly across multiple borders across Europe in order to maintain their position on the global art world. Artists with trans-local homes that combine and connect homeland, host country and a unique understanding of home and belonging. 12 b/w illus |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Artists -- Baltic States
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Occupational mobility -- Baltic States
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THE ARTS: GENERAL ISSUES.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration.
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ART / General
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Artists
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Emigration and immigration
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Occupational mobility
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| SUBJECT |
Baltic States -- Emigration and immigration
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| Subject |
Baltic States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1789383420 |
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9781789383423 |
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9781789383416 |
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1789383412 |
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