Globalizing East European Art Histories

Beáta Hock is a Senior Researcher at the Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe (GWZO), Leipzig. Anu Allas is an art historian and curator in the Kumu Art Museum in Tallinn, Estonia.

Part I. CHALLENGING THE NATIONAL CONTAINER. FROM THE TRANSNATIONAL TO THE PLANETARY 1. Tomasz GRUSIECKI — Uprooting Origins: Polish-Lithuanian Art and the Challenge of Pluralism 2. Beáta HOCK — Managing Trans/Nationality: Cultural Actors within Imperial Structures 3. Kristóf NAGY — From Fringe Interest to Hegemony: The Emergence of the Soros Network in Eastern Europe 4. Maja and Reuben FOWKES — Towards a Planetary History of East European Art Part II. HYBRIDITY: IDENTITIES AND FORMS 1. Carolyn C. GUILE — Reflections on the Politics of Portraiture in Early Modern Poland2. Jörg SCHELLER — Eastern Europeanizing Globalization: Polish Artists at the Venice Art Biennale and the Microcosms of Globalization 3. Sarah SCHLACHETZKI — Modernism on the Margins. Breslau’s Architectural Future Between High-Rise Utopia and Down-to-Earth Realism Part III. GLOBAL COMMUNITIES AND THE TRAFFIC IN IDEAS 1. Agata JAKUBOWSKA — The Circulation of Feminist Ideas in Communist Poland 2. Anu ALLAS — "Our Imaginings Unite with Reality": Ideological Encounters in Milan Knížák’s Ten Lessons 3. Katarzyna CYTLAK — Transculturation, Cultural Transfer, and the Colonial Matrix of Power on the Cold War Margins: East European Art Seen from Latin America Part IV. CONTEMPORARY ART PRAXIS AND THE PRODUCTION OF DISCOURSES 4. Joanna SOKOŁOWSKA — Undoing the East: Towards the World’s (Semi-)Peripheries 5. Amy BRYZGEL — Performance Art in the Global Flow of Cultural Goods: Some Eastern European Positions 6. Alpesh Kantilal PATEL — Artistic Responses to LGBTQI Gaps in Archives: From World War II Asian America to Postwar Soviet Estonia