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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.

Publication Info. London ; New York, NY : I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd, 2017.

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 361 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series International library of modern and contemporary art ; 33
International library of modern and contemporary art ; 33.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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.
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Subject Art -- Political aspects -- Europe, Eastern.
Art -- Political aspects.
Eastern Europe.
Art -- Political aspects -- Europe, Central.
Central Europe.
Social movements in art.
Social movements in art.
Social practice (Art)
Social practice (Art)
Communism and art -- Europe, Eastern.
Communism and art.
Communism and art -- Europe, Central.
Socialism and art -- Europe, Eastern.
Socialism and art.
Socialism and art -- Europe, Central.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Added Title Art and civil society in Central and Eastern Europe
Other Form: Print version: Galliera, Izabel. Socially engaged art after socialism. London ; New York, NY : I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd, 2017 9781784537135 (OCoLC)989622270
ISBN 9781786722225 (electronic book)
1786722224 (electronic book)
9781784537135
1784537136
9781786732224 (PDF)