ANTIPOLITICS IN CENTRAL EUROPEAN ART

Art historians have tended to frame late socialist central European art as either 'totalitarian' or 'transitional'. This bold new bo ok challenges this established viewpoint, contending that the artists of this era cannot be simply caricatured as dissident heroes, or easily subsumed into the formalist Western canon. Klara Kemp-Welch offers a compelling account of the ways in which artists in Po land, Czechoslovakia and Hungary embraced alternative forms of action-based practice just as their dissident counterparts were formu lating al...[Read more]