In the Sphere of The Soviets: Essays on the Cultural Legacy of the Soviet Union

by Charles Merewether

Overview

The book distinctive is listed in points (i) it focuses on Eastern European art covering the historical avant-garde to the post-war and contemporary periods of; (ii) it looks at some key artists in the countries that have not been given so much attention within this content i.e. Georgia, Dagestan, Chechnya and Central Asia; (iii) it looks beyond Eastern Europe to the influence of Russia/Soviet Union in Asia.   

It explores the theoretical models developed for understanding contemporary art across Eastern Europe and focus on the new generation of Georgian artists who emerged in the immediate years before and after the country’s independence from the Soviet Union; and on to discuss the legacy and debates around monuments across Poland, Russia and Ukraine.helps in Better understanding the postwar and contemporary art in Eastern Europe. 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789813365742
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date:	02/16/2021
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	542 KB

About the Author

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).  

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2:  Specter of the Soviet Union.- Chapter 3: The Thaw: After Stalin, Soviet Union and Ukraine.- Chapter 4: State of Play: Georgian art before/after independence.- Chapter 5: Rise and Fall of Monuments.- Chapter 6: Contemporary Russia.- Chapter 7: After Maidan: Contemporary Ukraine.- Chapter 8: Contemporary Georgia: Here and There.- Chapter 9: Lost to the Future: Central Asia.- Chapter 10: Towards a Horizontality (Memory, Margins and Borders).- Chapter 11: Russian Affinities and its Correspondences.- Chapter 12: The Interactivity of Energies and Montage.