1st Edition
Critical Approaches to Art, Race and Coloniality in Eastern Europe
INTRODUCTION
Dorota Jagoda Michalska and Marta Zboralska
SECTION I: A Materialist Critique
1. Between Empires: Uneven and Combined Development in the Context of Yugoslav Art
Bojana Videkanić
2. Decolonial Erasures: Undoing Soviet Modernity
Angela Harutyunyan
3. Plovdiv’s Bratska Mogila as a Microcosm of the 1960s and 1970s in Bulgaria and the
Socialist World
Zhivka Valiavicharska
4. Does the Post- in Postcolonial mean the same as the Post- in Postsocialist Art?
Octavian Esanu
SECTION II: A Transcultural Critique
5. Imperialism, Colonialism, and Ukrainian Identity: The Case of Mykhailo Boichuk’s School of
Monumental Art
Katia Denysova
6.Who owns modernism?: Indigenous agents among Polish, Jewish, and Ukrainian entanglements in interwar Lviv
Piotr Słodkowski
7. “Like Ghosts and Phantoms:” Colonialism, Racialized Vision and the Status of Blackness in Interwar
Poland
Łukasz Zaremba
8. The Spatial Practice of the Avant-garde: Ilia Zdanevich 1912-1919
Harsha Ram
POSTSCRIPT: Art and Liberation
9. Decolonization and Revolution in Ukraine 2000-Present
Jessica Zychowicz
Biography
Dorota Jagoda Michalska is a Core Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies, Central European University in Budapest, Hungary.
Marta Zboralska is Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford, and Bowra Junior Research Fellow at Wadham College.
