Beáta Hock
Publisher
De Gruyter Oldenbourg
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
Transregional connections play a fundamental role in the history of East-Central Europe. This volume explores this connectivity by showing how people from eastern and central parts of Europe have positioned themselves within global processes while, in turn, also shaping them. The contributions examine different fields of action such as economy, arts, international regulations and law, development aid, and migration, focusing on the period between...
Publisher
transcript Verlag
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
In which ways are environments (post-)socialist and how do they come about? How is the relationship between the built environment, memory, and debates on identity enacted? What are the spatial, material, visual, and aesthetic dimensions of these (post-)socialist enactments or interventions? And how do such (post)socialist interventions in environments become (re)curated? By addressing these questions, this volume releases `curation' from its usual...
Publisher
De Gruyter Oldenbourg
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
Das Neue Bauen der Zwischenkriegszeit im östlichen Mitteleuropa ist ein weitgehend weißer Fleck auf der Landkarte der Architekturgeschichte, auf der einige wenige Namen ‒ Schlagwort Bauhaus ‒ dominieren. Dabei ist der Objektbestand groß: Der Architektur kam in den nach Kriegsende 1918 neugegründeten Staaten wie der Tschechoslowakei als Symbol von Aufbruch und Modernisierung eine zentrale Rolle zu, und auch nationale Konkurrenzen spornten die...
Publisher
Central European University Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
This book presents and analyzes artistic interactions both within the Soviet bloc and with the West between 1945 and 1989. During the Cold War the exchange of artistic ideas and products united Europe's avant-garde in a most remarkable way. Despite the Iron Curtain and national and political borders there existed a constant flow of artists, artworks, artistic ideas and practices. The geographic borders of these exchanges have yet to be clearly defined....