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:	9789813365735
Publisher:	Springer Nature Singapore
Publication date:	02/17/2021
Edition description:	1st ed. 2021
Pages:	359
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x (d)

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. Modernism, Avantgarde and the Black Sea. - Chapter 2. The Specter of the Soviet Union. - Chapter 3. Culture After Stalin. - Chapter 4. State of Play. Georgia 1980’S/1990’S. - Chapter 5. The Rise and Fall of Monuments. - Chapter 6. Towards a Horizontality. - Chapter 7. Russia and Its Neighbors. - Chapter 8. Bridging Boundaries. - Chapter 9. Lost to the Future, Central Asia. - Chapter 10. Russian Affinities and Correspondences. - Chapter 11. The Interactivity of Energies