In the sphere of the Soviets : essays on the cultural legacy of the Soviet Union / Charles Merewether.
Merewether, Charles, author.
2021
N6988 .M47 2021
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Title In the sphere of the Soviets : essays on the cultural legacy of the Soviet Union / Charles Merewether.
Author Merewether, Charles, author.
ISBN 9813365749 (electronic book)
9789813365742 (electronic bk.)
9813365730
9789813365735
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-6574-2
Published Singapore : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
Language English
Description 1 online resource
Item Number 10.1007/978-981-33-6574-2 doi
Call Number N6988 .M47 2021
Dewey Decimal Classification 709.47/09045
Summary This book is distinctive in exploring Eastern European art since World War Two. It focuses on the period after Stalin, covering the response by and legacy of Soviet domination of the region, especially looking at the Soviet Union, Ukraine, Georgia, Central Asia and influence of Russia/Soviet Union in Asia. It explores the theoretical models developed for understanding contemporary art across Eastern Europe and pays attention to the new generation of Georgian artists who emerged in the immediate years before and after the countrys independence from the Soviet Union; the Ukrainian artists after the events of Maidan in 2014 and legacy and debates around monuments across Eastern Europe. Dr. Charles Merewether is an art historian, the author and the curator who has worked in Asia, Australia, Europe and the Americas. Merewether has worked and lived in Tbilisi, Georgia, over the past 4 years. He is the author of books and many articles about contemporary art, including his books State of Play (2017), After Memory: The Art of Milenko Prvacki and Under Construction: Ai Weiwei (2008). He was the co-editor of After the Event (2010) and the editor of both Art, Anti-Art, Non-Art: Experimentations in the Public Sphere in Postwar Japan 1950-1970, (2007) and The Archive (2006).
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Source of Description Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed March 19, 2021).
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Introduction
Specter of the Soviet Union
The Thaw: After Stalin, Soviet Union and Ukraine
State of Play: Georgian art before/after independence
Rise and Fall of Monuments
Contemporary Russia
After Maidan: Contemporary Ukraine
Contemporary Georgia: Here and There
Lost to the Future: Central Asia
Towards a Horizontality (Memory, Margins and Borders)
Russian Affinities and its Correspondences
The Interactivity of Energies and Montage.

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