In the shadow of Yalta : art and the avant-garde in Eastern Europe, 1945-1989 /
Piotr Piotrowski.
- London : Reaktion, 2009.
- 498 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
The geography and history of art in Eastern Europe - Part 1 Behind the iron curtain before 1948 - Part 2 Modernism and totalitarianism - Part 3 The neo-avant-garde and 'real socialism' in the 1970s - Epilogue: the spectres haunting Europe in the 1980s.
A comprehensive study of art and politics in Eastern Europe between the end of World War II and the fall of Communism, this title brings together a wide range of issues, including artistic problems, movements, attitudes, and kinds of expression, and compares and describes them to create a new art map of the region.