Title & Author:

Multiple realities : experimental art in the Eastern Bloc, 1960s-1980s / with contributions by Ivana Bago, Dušan Barok, Anna Daučíková, Michał Grzegorzek, Libuše Jarcovjáková, Daniel Muzyczuk, Alexandra Pirici, Pavel S. Pyś, Karol Radziszewski, Kathleen Reinhardt, Natalia Sielewicz ; edited by Pavel S. Pyś.

Edition:

First edition.

Publication:

Minneapolis : Walker Art Center, [2023]
New York, NY : Available through D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers
©2023

Description:

484 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm

Notes:
Published in conjunction with the exhibition held at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, November 11, 2023 - March 10, 2024, Phoenix Art Museum, April 17, 2024 - September 29, 2024, Vancouver Art Gallery, November 2, 2024 - March 23, 2025.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Foreword / by Mary Ceruti -- Acknowledgments / by Pavel S. Pyś -- Multiple realities : navigating experimental art in Central Eastern Europe, 1960s-1980s / by Pavel S. Pyś -- Section 1 Public and private spaces of control. Lászlo Fehér ; Ewa Partum ; Ĺubomír Ďurček ; Milan Knížák ; Akademia Ruchu ; Ion Grigorescu ; Sanja Iveković ; Jiří Kovanda ; Zbigniew Rybczyński ; Matei Lăzărescu ; Simon Menner ; Jan Ságl ; Cornelia Schleime ; Gyula Konkoly ; Dóra Maurer ; Bálint Szombathy -- Persons and objects are to be removed from the balcony : artists performing in public and private spaces of control during the Cold War / by Kathleen Reinhardt -- Section 2 Dimensions of the self. Jana Želibská ; Geta Brătescu ; Vera Fischer ; Teresa Gierzyńska ; Sanja Iveković ; Věra Chytilová ; Natalia LL ; Teresa Tyszkiewicz ; Barbara Falender ; Teresa Murak ; Maria Pinińska-Bereś ; Jolanta Marcolla ; Ewa Partum ; Krystyna Piotrowska ; Alina Szapocznikow ; Janina Tworek-Pierzgalska ; Eva Kmentová ; Ana Lupaş ; Karel Miler ; Jan Mlčoch ; Jan Mlčoch, Petr Štembera, and Karel Miler ; Petr Štembera ; Željko Jerman ; Kálmán Szijártó ; Orshi Drozdik ; Tomislav Gotovac ; Ion Grigorescu ; Károly Hopp-Halász ; Krzysztof Niemczyk ; Krzysztof Jung ; Libuše Jarcovjáková ; Jürgen Wittdorf ; Cornelia Schleime ; Gabriele Stötzer ; Erfurt Women Artists' Group ; Zsuzsi Ujj -- Eternal shapes : weaving the erotic into cybernetics in 1970s Poland / by Natalia Sielewicz -- Section 3 Being together : alternative forms of the social. Karol Radziszewski ; Karol Radziszewski/Queer Archives Institute ; Libuše Jarcovjáková ; Gino Hahnemann ; Heino Hilger Archive ; György Kovásznai ; György Kemény ; Tibor Jákfalvy ; György Kemény ; Janós Istvánfy ; István Bakos ; György Kemény ; Milan Adamčiak ; Teresa Gierzyńska ; Andrzej Urbanowicz ; Katalin Ladik ; Jan Dobkowski ; Karpo Godina ; Wiktor Gutt and Waldemar Raniszewski ; A.E. Bizottság ; AG. Geige ; Július Koller ; Jan Ságl ; Gabriele Stötzer ; Lutz Dammbeck ; Autoperforationsartisten ; Henryk Gajewski and Piotr Rypson ; AWACS ; Tomasz Sikorski -- Nothing but a joke : humor and revolutionary mourning in Eastern European art / by Ivana Bago -- Memory is a powerful thing : a roundtable discussion on the performative nature of queer archives / with Anna Daučíková, Libuše Jarcovjákova, Alexandra Pirici, and Karol Radziszewski, moderated by Michał Grzegorzek -- Section 4 Looking to other futures : science, technology, utopia / Stano Filko ; Vladimir Bonačić ; Florin Maxa ; Zdeňka Čechová ; Miha Vipotnik ; Tomislav Mikulić ; Koloman Novak ; Jan Slávik and Ladislav Halada ; Aleksandar Srnec ; Zdeněk Sýkora ; Adina Caloenescu ; Jerzy Rosołowicz ; Krzysztof Wodiczko ; Andrzej Zborski ; Bogusław Schaeffer ; Polish Film Chronicle ; Józef Robakowski and Eugeniusz Rudnik ; Natalia LL ; Lubomír Beneš ; Zbigniew Rybczyński ; Sherban Epuré -- Being together : alternative forms of the social / by Daniel Muzyczuk -- Looking to the future : science, technology, and utopia / by Dušan Barok.

Summary:

"Published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name, Multiple Realities: Experimental Art in the Eastern Bloc, 1960s-1980s offers a sweeping survey of experimental art made in six Central Eastern European nations during the 1960s to 1980s. Drawing on visual art, performance, music, and material culture, the exhibition brings together works by nearly 100 artists from East Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, and Yugoslavia, shedding light on ways that artists refused, circumvented, eluded, and subverted official systems, in the process creating works often riddled with wit, humor, or irony" -- Provided by publisher.
"Multiple Realities: Experimental Art in the Eastern Bloc, 1960s-1980s offers a survey of experimental art made in six Central Eastern European nations during the 1960s to 1980s. Charting a generation of artists invested in experimentation, the Walker-organized exhibition features artworks rarely exhibited in the United States. Despite their geographical proximity, artists working during this time encountered different conditions for daily life and art-making, confronting varying degrees of control and pressure exerted by state authorities. Embracing conceptual or formal innovation and a spirit of adventurousness, Multiple Realities sheds light on ways that artists refused, circumvented, eluded, and subverted official systems, in the process creating works often riddled with wit, humor, or irony. Drawing on visual art, performance, music, and material culture, Multiple Realities: Experimental Art in the Eastern Bloc, 1960s-1980s brings together works by more than 100 artists from the GDR, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, and Yugoslavia. While it presents select canonical figures from the region, the exhibition foregrounds lesser-known practitioners, particularly women artists, artist collectives, and those exploring embodiment through an LGBTQ+ lens" -- Source unknown.

ISBN:

9781935963288 (hardcover)
1935963287 (hardcover)

Subject:

Arts Europe, Central Experimental methods Exhibitions.
Arts Europe, Eastern Experimental methods Exhibitions.
Arts and society Europe, Central History 20th century Exhibitions.
Arts and society Europe, Eastern History 20th century Exhibitions.
Arts Europe centrale Méthodes expérimentales Expositions.
Arts Europe de l'Est Méthodes expérimentales Expositions.
Arts et société Europe centrale Histoire 20e siècle Expositions.
Arts et société Europe de l'Est Histoire 20e siècle Expositions.
Arts and society
Arts Experimental methods
Central Europe
Eastern Europe

Form/genre:

exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs
History
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Pyś, Pavel S., editor, curator, writer of supplementary textual content.
Hernández Luege, William, curator.
Ceruti, Mary, writer of foreword.
Bago, Ivana, 1979- writer of supplementary textual content.
Barok, Dušan, 1979- writer of supplementary textual content.
Daučíková, Anča, contributor.
Grzegorzek, Michał, contributor.
Jarcovjáková, Libuše, 1952- contributor.
Muzyczuk, Daniel, writer of supplementary textual content.
Pirici, Alexandra, 1982- writer of supplementary textual content.
Radziszewski, Karol, 1980- contributor.
Reinhardt, Kathleen, writer of supplementary textual content.
Sielewicz, Natalia, writer of supplementary textual content.
Walker Art Center, organizer, host institution.
Phoenix Art Museum, host institution.
Vancouver Art Gallery, host institution.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 319666
Call No.: 319666
Copy: 1
Status: Available