Klara Kemp‐Welch
Biographic Data
| ID | 6156236 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Klara Kemp‐Welch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Klara |
| FAMILY NAME | Kemp‐Welch |
| SIGNATURE | WELCH K K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institut Universitaire de la Côte |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7887-6008 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Decolonising Art
Decolonising Art: Beyond the Obvious makes an important contribution to rethinking the political history of Ukrainian culture from global perspectives. The volume is based on a public programme of lectures curated by the Ukrainian Institute to accompany Ukraine’s participation in the 59th International Biennale of Art in Venice, not long after Russia’s full-scale invasion, in 2022. The diverse voices in the book speak as one, conveying the urgenc…
Svitlana Biedarieva, Ambicoloniality and War
In the Eye of the Storm
What follows is an edited version of a roundtable held at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London in February 2023 in connection with the publication of the book In the Eye of the Storm: Modernism in Ukraine, 1900-1930s (Thames & Hudson, 2022). The edited volume accompanies a travelling exhibition, first presented at the Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum, Madrid in November 2022. In the Eye of the Storm: Modernism in Ukraine, 1900-1930s was organ…
Horizontal Art History and Beyond
Horizontal Art History and Beyond: Revising Peripheral Critical Practices makes a valuable contribution to current debates on art historical methodology. Its starting point is the concept of “horizontal art history” elaborated by Polish art historian Piotr Piotrowski (1952-2015) as an alternative to the hierarchical power dynamics inherent in centre/periphery-based disciplinary models. While his own research focus was primarily of East-Central Eu…
Countercultural Misunderstandings
Drawing on Theodore Roszak's 1969 classic, The Making of a Counter Culture: Reflections on the Technocratic Society and its Youthful Opposition , this essay argues that the difficulties experienced by members of the counterculture in establishing bonds of solidarity with potentially like‐minded groups were often shared by alternative artists working internationally post‐1968. Opening with a case study in hostile American feedback on the politics …
Themerson Archive
The Themerson Archive Catalogue is a stunning box set of archival material relating to artists Stefan and Franciszka Themerson. Co-edited by Jasia Reichardt, whose guardians the Themersons’ became after she managed to flee Warsaw in 1946, the publication is a tribute to the remarkable achievements of the couple and a precious resource for scholars. The artists’ archive in London opened to researchers in 1990 and then migrated to the National Libr…
Agata Pietrasik, Art in a Disrupted World
Art in a Disrupted World. Poland 1939-1949 ambitiously spans both the wartime and the post-war periods, addressing a complex and challenging chain of events in Polish art history. The book’s structure is both chronological and thematic, exploring: portraiture in the concentration camps; the experience of the ruined cityscape; the landmark exhibition Warsaw Accuses; and, finally, debates on the revival of modernism in the post-war years. In additi…
Annette Michelson, On the Wings of Hypothesis
Taking its title from her well-known essay on “Montage and the Theory of the Interval” of 1992, this volume brings together four decades’ of critical essays by avant-garde cinema historian Annette Michelson (1922-2018). Ostensibly structured by her classic pairing of Sergei Eisenstein and Dziga Vertov, who, as she wrote, both posited “the making and experiencing of such film as, ultimately, a privileged mode of ontological consciousness itself” (…
The Romanians are Coming’
This article analyses a selection of creative projects engaging with Romanian migrant labourers, in relation to the controversy in the UK and in Romania prompted by the Channel 4 television series The Romanians are Coming (2015). The case studies are a co-production exploring post-communism and the history of Romania through the history of the Dacia car, My Beautiful Dacia (2009), by Romanian artist Ştefan Constantinescu and Spanish documentary m…
María Amalia García, Abstract Crossings
The translation into English of María Amalia García’s history of cultural exchange between Argentina and Brazil, spanning the mid-1940s to the end of the 1950s, offers an invaluable resource for transforming the ways in which post-war abstraction is thought, and, it is to be hoped, how it should now be taught. While Brazilian Neo-Concretism has become a well-known episode and the “Neo-Concretist Manifesto” of 1959, is, today, acknowledged as a ca…
Networking the Bloc
The story of the experimental zeitgeist in Eastern European art, seen through personal encounters, pioneering dialogues, collaborative projects, and cultural exchanges. Throughout the 1970s, a network of artists emerged to bridge the East-West divide, and the no less rigid divides between the countries of the Eastern bloc. Originating with a series of creative initiatives by artists, art historians, and critics and centered in places like Budapes…
Jasia Reichardt, Quinze voyages de Varsovie à Londres 1940-1945
Newly translated from Polish, Jasia Reichardt’s Quinze voyages de Varsovie à Londres 1940-1945 provides a polyphonic account of the day to day events leading up to the liquidation of the Warsaw ghetto in the summer of 1942, and of Reichardt’s remarkable, collectively orchestrated, survival, and subsequent emigration to the United Kingdom. The story is told through family letters, photographs, and drawings, accompanied by a detailed autobiographic…
Antipolitics in Central European Art
Art historians have tended to frame late-socialist Central European art as either 'totalitarian' or 'transitional'. This bold new book challenges this established viewpoint, contending that the artists of this era cannot be simply caricatured as dissident heroes, or easily subsumed into the formalist Western canon. Klara Kemp-Welch offers a compelling account of the ways in which artists in Poland, Czechoslovakia and Hungary embraced alternative …
Resurrections (Kabakov's Slippers)
Everything was arranged in such a way that it did not occur to any of us, not the heroes, not the witnesses, that our euthanasia had been agreed upon behind our backs. But why am I speaking such nonsense? Behind what back! All were asked and all agreed. And how could we not agree, indeed after the operation ( ... ), at the end of the tunnel, the heavenly kingdom was shining, the fulfilment of all our desires, our innermost dreams. You Igor, of co…
Taking Women's Rights Seriously
A review of Sanja Iveković, ‘Urgent Matters’, 18 April – 2 August 2009, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, and BAK (basis voor actuele kunst), Utrecht, curated by Maria Hlavajova
The Romanians are Coming’
This article analyses a selection of creative projects engaging with Romanian migrant labourers, in relation to the controversy in the UK and in Romania prompted by the Channel 4 television series The Romanians are Coming (2015). The case studies are a co-production exploring post-communism and the history of Romania through the history of the Dacia car, My Beautiful Dacia (2009), by Romanian artist Ştefan Constantinescu and Spanish documentary m…
Taking Women's Rights Seriously
A review of Sanja Iveković, ‘Urgent Matters’, 18 April – 2 August 2009, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, and BAK (basis voor actuele kunst), Utrecht, curated by Maria Hlavajova
Resurrections (Kabakov's Slippers)
Everything was arranged in such a way that it did not occur to any of us, not the heroes, not the witnesses, that our euthanasia had been agreed upon behind our backs. But why am I speaking such nonsense? Behind what back! All were asked and all agreed. And how could we not agree, indeed after the operation ( ... ), at the end of the tunnel, the heavenly kingdom was shining, the fulfilment of all our desires, our innermost dreams. You Igor, of co…
Antipolitics in Central European Art
Art historians have tended to frame late-socialist Central European art as either 'totalitarian' or 'transitional'. This bold new book challenges this established viewpoint, contending that the artists of this era cannot be simply caricatured as dissident heroes, or easily subsumed into the formalist Western canon. Klara Kemp-Welch offers a compelling account of the ways in which artists in Poland, Czechoslovakia and Hungary embraced alternative …
Jasia Reichardt, Quinze voyages de Varsovie à Londres 1940-1945
Newly translated from Polish, Jasia Reichardt’s Quinze voyages de Varsovie à Londres 1940-1945 provides a polyphonic account of the day to day events leading up to the liquidation of the Warsaw ghetto in the summer of 1942, and of Reichardt’s remarkable, collectively orchestrated, survival, and subsequent emigration to the United Kingdom. The story is told through family letters, photographs, and drawings, accompanied by a detailed autobiographic…
Networking the Bloc
The story of the experimental zeitgeist in Eastern European art, seen through personal encounters, pioneering dialogues, collaborative projects, and cultural exchanges. Throughout the 1970s, a network of artists emerged to bridge the East-West divide, and the no less rigid divides between the countries of the Eastern bloc. Originating with a series of creative initiatives by artists, art historians, and critics and centered in places like Budapes…
The Romanians are Coming’
This article analyses a selection of creative projects engaging with Romanian migrant labourers, in relation to the controversy in the UK and in Romania prompted by the Channel 4 television series The Romanians are Coming (2015). The case studies are a co-production exploring post-communism and the history of Romania through the history of the Dacia car, My Beautiful Dacia (2009), by Romanian artist Ştefan Constantinescu and Spanish documentary m…
María Amalia García, Abstract Crossings
The translation into English of María Amalia García’s history of cultural exchange between Argentina and Brazil, spanning the mid-1940s to the end of the 1950s, offers an invaluable resource for transforming the ways in which post-war abstraction is thought, and, it is to be hoped, how it should now be taught. While Brazilian Neo-Concretism has become a well-known episode and the “Neo-Concretist Manifesto” of 1959, is, today, acknowledged as a ca…
Themerson Archive
The Themerson Archive Catalogue is a stunning box set of archival material relating to artists Stefan and Franciszka Themerson. Co-edited by Jasia Reichardt, whose guardians the Themersons’ became after she managed to flee Warsaw in 1946, the publication is a tribute to the remarkable achievements of the couple and a precious resource for scholars. The artists’ archive in London opened to researchers in 1990 and then migrated to the National Libr…
Agata Pietrasik, Art in a Disrupted World
Art in a Disrupted World. Poland 1939-1949 ambitiously spans both the wartime and the post-war periods, addressing a complex and challenging chain of events in Polish art history. The book’s structure is both chronological and thematic, exploring: portraiture in the concentration camps; the experience of the ruined cityscape; the landmark exhibition Warsaw Accuses; and, finally, debates on the revival of modernism in the post-war years. In additi…
Annette Michelson, On the Wings of Hypothesis
Taking its title from her well-known essay on “Montage and the Theory of the Interval” of 1992, this volume brings together four decades’ of critical essays by avant-garde cinema historian Annette Michelson (1922-2018). Ostensibly structured by her classic pairing of Sergei Eisenstein and Dziga Vertov, who, as she wrote, both posited “the making and experiencing of such film as, ultimately, a privileged mode of ontological consciousness itself” (…
Countercultural Misunderstandings
Drawing on Theodore Roszak's 1969 classic, The Making of a Counter Culture: Reflections on the Technocratic Society and its Youthful Opposition , this essay argues that the difficulties experienced by members of the counterculture in establishing bonds of solidarity with potentially like‐minded groups were often shared by alternative artists working internationally post‐1968. Opening with a case study in hostile American feedback on the politics …
In the Eye of the Storm
What follows is an edited version of a roundtable held at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London in February 2023 in connection with the publication of the book In the Eye of the Storm: Modernism in Ukraine, 1900-1930s (Thames & Hudson, 2022). The edited volume accompanies a travelling exhibition, first presented at the Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum, Madrid in November 2022. In the Eye of the Storm: Modernism in Ukraine, 1900-1930s was organ…
Horizontal Art History and Beyond
Horizontal Art History and Beyond: Revising Peripheral Critical Practices makes a valuable contribution to current debates on art historical methodology. Its starting point is the concept of “horizontal art history” elaborated by Polish art historian Piotr Piotrowski (1952-2015) as an alternative to the hierarchical power dynamics inherent in centre/periphery-based disciplinary models. While his own research focus was primarily of East-Central Eu…
Svitlana Biedarieva, Ambicoloniality and War
Decolonising Art
Decolonising Art: Beyond the Obvious makes an important contribution to rethinking the political history of Ukrainian culture from global perspectives. The volume is based on a public programme of lectures curated by the Ukrainian Institute to accompany Ukraine’s participation in the 59th International Biennale of Art in Venice, not long after Russia’s full-scale invasion, in 2022. The diverse voices in the book speak as one, conveying the urgenc…
Art (10 works) · History (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Law (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Art history (4 works) · Eastern European Communism and Reforms (4 works) · Art, Politics, and Modernism (3 works) · Literature (3 works)