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Plural and Multiple Geographies of Modern and Contemporary Art in East-Central Europe book cover

1st Edition

Plural and Multiple Geographies of Modern and Contemporary Art in East-Central Europe

Edited By Caterina Preda, Magdalena Radomska Copyright 2025
272 Pages 5 Color & 21 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

272 Pages 5 Color & 21 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

272 Pages 5 Color & 21 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This edited volume proposes a theoretical reflection on the different artistic geographies of East-Central Europe (ECE) from an interdisciplinary perspective found at the intersection of art history, art and politics, and critical geography. Contributors argue that this multiplicity is a defining feature of the region. At the same time, chapters employ the concept of “plural geographies” and... Read more

Part 1 Plural Geographies of East-Central European Art

1. Plural Geography(ies): Between Class Division and Relations of Production

Magdalena Radomska

2. Discontinuity. Considering East-Central Europe as a Discontinuous Space

Jérôme Bazin

3. Points East: The Geo-Epistemology of East European Art through Conference History

Maja and Reuben Fowkes

4. Capitalism, Geographies, the Racial/Colonial, and the Imperial/Colonial Divide

Marina Gržinić

Part 2 Multiple Geographies – Non-hierarchical, Flexible Mapping, and Non-mapping

5. Plurimodern Constellations: Scales of Analysis in the Spatial History of Art

Cristian Nae

6. The Hegemonic Gaze and East-Central Europe: Challenging the Totalitarian Paradigm

Lina Džuverović

7. The Arts of Mapping (East Central) Europe and David Černý’s Entropa

Katarzyna Murawska-Muthesius

8. A Shift from the Geopolitics of Place to the Chronopolitics of Time in East-Central Europe?

Edit András

Part 3 Geographies of Peripheral Solidarity

9. The Alternative Geography of Socialist Cultural Internationalism: Transregional Artistic Solidarity between East-Central Europe and Latin America

Caterina Preda

10. Black Masks White Skin: Self-Identification with Africa in the Polish Culture during Late Socialism

Katarzyna Cytlak

11. From Postsocialist Geographies to Late Socialist Networks: The Role of Cultural Exchange with Non-Aligned Countries in Croatia and Yugoslavia

Sanja Sekelj

12. Transnational Zones for Museums and Archives between Latin America and Eastern Europe

Cristina Freire

Part 4 Geographies of "Strategic Essentialism"

13. Inside the Trans/National: Feminist Geographies of Close Otherness in the Art of East-Central Europe

Karolina Majewska-Güde

14. An Art History of Place

Pavlína Morganová

15. Atemporal Histories and the Geographies of East-Central Europe, or Why Have There Been No Great Moldovan (Performance) Artists?

Amy Bryzgel

16. A Different Narrative of Nonalignment? The Case of Socialist Albania in the Art History and Geography of East-Central Europe

Raino Isto

Biography

Caterina Preda is Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science, University of Bucharest.

Magdalena Radomska is Assistant Professor at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland.

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