Author : Katalin Cseh-Varga
Release : 2018-02-01
Genre : Art
Kind : eBook
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Book Synopsis Performance Art in the Second Public Sphere by : Katalin Cseh-Varga
Download or read book Performance Art in the Second Public Sphere written by Katalin Cseh-Varga. This book was released on 2018-02-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Performance Art in the Second Public Sphere is the first interdisciplinary analysis of performance art in East, Central and Southeast Europe under socialist rule. By investigating the specifics of event-based art forms in these regions, each chapter explores the particular, critical roles that this work assumed under censorial circumstances. The artistic networks of Yugoslavia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, East Germany and Czechoslovakia are discussed with a particular focus on the discourses that shaped artistic practice at the time, drawing on the methods of Performance Studies and Media Studies as well as more familiar reference points from art history and area studies.