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Postsocialist Contemporary - The Institutionalization of Artistic Practice in Eastern Europe

English · Hardback

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This book engages with the historical paradigm of 'contemporary art' by examining a programme initiated in Eastern Europe by the Hungarian-American billionaire George Soros in the 1990s. The Soros Centers for Contemporary Art played a leading role in popularising the norms and conventions of 'contemporary art' throughout the region.

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Octavian Esanu is Associate Professor in the Department of Art and Art History at the American University of Beirut (AUB) and Curator of AUB Art Galleries

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This book engages with the historical paradigm of ‘contemporary art’ by examining a programme initiated in Eastern Europe by the Hungarian-American billionaire George Soros in the 1990s. The Soros Centers for Contemporary Art played a leading role in popularising the norms and conventions of ‘contemporary art’ throughout the region. -- .

Product details

Authors Octavian Esanu
Assisted by Amelia Jones (Editor), Marsha Meskimmon (Editor)
Publisher Manchester University Press
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 30.11.2021
 
EAN 9781526158000
ISBN 978-1-5261-5800-0
No. of pages 288
Series Rethinking Art's Histories
Subject Humanities, art, music > Art > Miscellaneous

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