Both in popular imagination and, to some degree, scholarly literature, Eastern Europe under socialist rule has been persistently imagined as a hermetically isolated cultural landscape, having painfully lacked access to cultural goods and flows from beyond its regional borders. This course aims to remove this spell and restore the diverse ways in which East European art scenes were entangled with actors and institutions in a wider world even in Cold War times. In doing so, we will survey exhibitions of Western modern art travelling across the Eastern Bloc, local appropriations of transnationally circulating artistic tendencies as well as cross-border connections built by East European “unofficial cultural ambassadors”, women artists, and politically left-leaning artistic networks.
A detailed syllabus with compulsory reading list will be distributed at the first session (readings will be predominantly in English).
The seminar meets weekly.
Preliminary literatur: Léa Saint-Raymond: Behind the Circulations of Images: Mapping Iconologies: Concepts and Contexts; Nikolas Drosos and Romy Golan: Realism as International Style; Alejandro Anreus: Whatever happened to Realism after 1945? Figuration and Politics in the Western Hemisphere; Cristina Freire: Southern–Eastern Contact Zones; Klara Kemp-Welch: NET: An Open Proposition; Gabriele Schor: Feminist Avant-Garde: Art of the 1970s in the Sammlung Verbund Collection
Sprache: Englisch; Präsentationen und Hausarbeiten auch auf Deutsch möglich.
Hausarbeit oder mündliche Prüfung am Dienstag, 16.7.2024 und Montag, 22.7.2024.
Die Veranstaltung wurde 2 mal im Vorlesungsverzeichnis SoSe 2024 gefunden:
