{"id":22196,"date":"2020-07-29T15:51:58","date_gmt":"2020-07-29T15:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=22196"},"modified":"2020-07-29T15:53:24","modified_gmt":"2020-07-29T15:53:24","slug":"maja-fowkes-reuben-fowkes-central-and-eastern-european-art-since-1950","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=22196","title":{"rendered":"Maja Fowkes, Reuben Fowkes, \u201cCentral and Eastern European Art Since 1950\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In this pathbreaking new history, Maja and Reuben Fowkes introduce outstanding artworks and major figures from across central and Eastern Europe to reveal the movements, theories, and styles that have shaped artistic practice since 1950. They emphasize the particularly rich and varied art scenes of Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Yugoslavia, extending their gaze at intervals to East Germany, Romania, the Baltic states, and the rest of the Balkans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This generously illustrated overview explores the richness of this region\u2019s artists\u2019 singular contribution to recent art history. Tracing art-historical changes from 1950 to now, the authors examine the repercussions of political events on artistic life\u2014notably the uprisings in Hungary and Czechoslovakia, the Solidarity movement in Poland, and the collapse of the communist bloc. But their primary interest is in the experimental art of the neo-avant-garde that resisted official agendas and engaged with global currents such as performance art, video, multimedia, and net art. <em>Central and Eastern European Art Since 1950<\/em> is a comprehensive, transnational survey of the major movements of art from this region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Contributors<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Maja Fowkes<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Author<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Maja Fowkes<\/strong> is a curator and art historian with a focus on the theory and aesthetics of Eastern European art from the socialist era to the present. Fowkes is a co-director of the Translocal Institute for Contemporary Art in London.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Reuben Fowkes<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Author<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Reuben Fowkes<\/strong> is a curator and art historian with a focus on the theory and aesthetics of Eastern European art from the socialist era to the present. Fowkes is a co-director of the Translocal Institute for Contemporary Art in London.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Pages:<\/strong> 224<\/li><li><strong>Published:<\/strong> April 14th, 2020<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thamesandhudsonusa.com\/books\/central-and-eastern-european-art-since-1950-softcover\">https:\/\/thamesandhudsonusa.com\/books\/central-and-eastern-european-art-since-1950-softcover<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jutarnji.hr\/kultura\/art\/znacajna-knjiga-bracnog-para-fowkes-uloga-hrvata-u-prici-o-umjetnosti-na-istoku-europe-15007520\">https:\/\/www.jutarnji.hr\/kultura\/art\/znacajna-knjiga-bracnog-para-fowkes-uloga-hrvata-u-prici-o-umjetnosti-na-istoku-europe-15007520<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22197,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-knjige","category-novosti"],"acf":{"facebook_opis":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Art-since-1950.jpeg?fit=300%2C420&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":54328,"url":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=54328","url_meta":{"origin":22196,"position":0},"title":"Me\u0111unarodna konferencija \u201eArt in Society\u201c, Zagreb, 1. \u2013 4. 7. 2026.","author":"Branimir Jankovi\u0107","date":"26. lipnja 2026.","format":false,"excerpt":"Me\u0111unarodna konferencija \u201eArt in Society\u201c odr\u017eat \u0107e se od 1. do 4. srpnja 2026. godine na Filozofskom fakultetu Sveu\u010dili\u0161ta u Zagrebu. 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