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Author Galliera, Izabel, author.

Title Socially engaged art after socialism : art and civil society in Central and Eastern Europe / Izabel Galliera
Published London ; New York, NY : I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd, 2017

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 361 pages) : illustrations
Series International library of modern and contemporary art ; 33
International library of modern and contemporary art ; 33.
Contents Introduction -- 1. Points of contention: socially engaged art practice in contemporary theory -- 2. Civil society, and social, cultural and political capital -- 3. Historical antecedents: participatory art under socialism, 1956-89 -- part. I. From second society to civil society -- part II. From localized public sites to EU transnational public spheres -- part III. Institutionalized and institutionalizing
Summary Reclaiming public life from the ideologies of both communist regimes and neoliberalism, their projects have harnessed the politically subversive potential of social relations based on trust, reciprocity and solidarity. Drawing on archival material and exclusive interviews, in this book Izabel Galliera traces the development of socially engaged art from the early 1990s to the present in Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania. She demonstrates that, in the early 1990s, projects were primarily created for exhibitions organized and funded by the Soros Centers for Contemporary Art. In the early 2000s, prior to Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania entering into the European Union, EU institutions likewise funded socially-conscious public art in the region. Today, socially engaged art is characterised by the proliferation of independent and often self-funded artists' initiatives in cities such as Sofia, Bucharest and Budapest. Focusing on the relationships between art, social capital and civil society, Galliera employs sociological and political theories to reveal that, while social capital is generally considered a mechanism of exclusion in the West, in post-socialist contexts it has been leveraged by artists and curators as a vital means of communication and action
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Art -- Political aspects -- Europe, Eastern
Art -- Political aspects -- Europe, Central
Social movements in art.
Social practice (Art)
Communism and art -- Europe, Eastern
Communism and art -- Europe, Central
Socialism and art -- Europe, Eastern
Socialism and art -- Europe, Central
ART -- Performance.
ART -- Reference.
Art -- Political aspects
Communism and art
Social movements in art
Social practice (Art)
Socialism and art
Central Europe
Eastern Europe
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781786722225
1786722224
Other Titles Art and civil society in Central and Eastern Europe