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In the shadow of Yalta : art and the avant-garde in Eastern Europe, 1945-1989 / Piotr Piotrowski.

By: Piotrowski, PiotrMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: London : Reaktion, 2009Description: 498 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: 9781861894380 (hbk.) :; 1861894384 (hbk.) :Subject(s): Art -- Political aspects -- Europe, Eastern | Avant-garde (Aesthetics) -- Europe, EasternDDC classification: 709.4'7
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Summary: 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.
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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.

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