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In the Shadow of Yalta
Piotr Piotrowski
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Description for In the Shadow of Yalta
Paperback. A comprehensive study of art and politics in Eastern Europe from the end of World War II to the fall of Communism. In the Shadow of Yalta brings together issues, including artistic problems, movements, attitudes and kinds of expression, and compares and describes them to create a new art map of the region. Num Pages: 488 pages, 224 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DF; 1DV; ACXJ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 239 x 170 x 32. Weight in Grams: 1160.
This book is the first comprehensive comparative study of the artistic culture of the region once located between the Iron Curtain and the Soviet Union, a part of Europe that due to the agreement signed by Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin at Yalta in the Crimea in February 1945 found itself trapped within the Soviet Union's sphere of influence. Piotr Piotrowski chronicles the complex relation between avant-garde art practice and politics in Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Poland, East Germany, Romania, Hungary and Bulgaria from the end of the Second World War to the collapse of Communism in 1989. Beginning with an analysis of ... Read more
This book is the first comprehensive comparative study of the artistic culture of the region once located between the Iron Curtain and the Soviet Union, a part of Europe that due to the agreement signed by Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin at Yalta in the Crimea in February 1945 found itself trapped within the Soviet Union's sphere of influence. Piotr Piotrowski chronicles the complex relation between avant-garde art practice and politics in Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Poland, East Germany, Romania, Hungary and Bulgaria from the end of the Second World War to the collapse of Communism in 1989. Beginning with an analysis of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Reaktion Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
488
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Number of Pages
488
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781861898630
SKU
V9781861898630
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About Piotr Piotrowski
Piotr Piotrowski is Professor of Art History at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland. He is the author or editor of numerous books, including Meanings of Modernism: Towards a History of Polish Art after 1945 (1999) and Art after Politics (2007).
Reviews for In the Shadow of Yalta
'Piotrowski's achievement is to disinter the histories of various forms of modernism, post-modernism and the neo-avant-garde that flourished in Eastern Europe, to disentangle the fruitful misunderstandings on which some of them were based and to explain the originality that lay behind many of the apparent inconsistencies ... Piotrowski writes clearly and readably, even in translation, and his groundbreaking study is ... Read more