1st Edition
The Green Bloc Neo-avant-garde Art and Ecology under Socialism
By Maja Fowkes
Copyright 2015
308 Pages
by
Central European University Press
308 Pages
by
Central European University Press
Expanding the horizon of established accounts of Central European art under socialism, this book uncovers the neglected history of artistic engagement with the natural environment in the Eastern Bloc. The turbulent legacy of 1968, which saw the confluence of political upheaval, spread of counterculture, rise of ecological consciousness, and emergence of global conceptual art, provides the setting... Read more
Acknowledgments, Introduction 1. Abstract Elements in the Industrial Environment: The Land Art of the Hungarian Group Pécs Workshop 2. The Cosmic Environment of the Slovenian Group OHO 3. Ecology of the Socialist City: The Public Art of the Croatian Group TOK 4. Correlations of Geography, Ecology, and Cosmology in the Conceptual Practice of Slovak Artist Rudolf Sikora 5. Embodied Environmental Awareness in the Performative Practice of Czech Artist Petr Štembera, Bibliography, Illustration, Credits, Index.
Biography
Dr. Maja Fowkes is Co-Director of the Translocal Institute for Contemporary Art, Budapest. She is the author of several books, including River Ecologies: Contemporary Art and Environmental Humanities on the Danube (2015) and Loophole to Happiness (2011).
