Socially Engaged Art after Socialism
Art and Civil Society in Central and Eastern Europe
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23174709 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Izabel Galliera (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Publication date | 2017-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Socially Engaged Art after Socialism (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | I.B.Tauris & Co. Ltd (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.5040/9781350988064 |
| OpenAlex | W4250593675 |
| ISBN | 9781350988064 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
Reclaiming public life from the ideologies of both communist regimes and neoliberalism, their projects have harnessed the politically subversive potential of social relations based on trust, reciprocity and solidarity. Drawing on archival material and exclusive interviews, in this book Izabel Galliera traces the development of socially engaged art from the early 1990s to the present in Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania. She demonstrates that, in the early 1990s, projects were primarily created for exhibitions organized and funded by the Soros Centers for Contemporary Art. In the early 2000s, prior to Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania entering into the European Union, EU institutions likewise funded socially-conscious public art in the region. Today, socially engaged art is characterised by the proliferation of independent and often self-funded artists' initiatives in cities such as Sofia, Bucharest and Budapest. Focusing on the relationships between art, social capital and civil society, Galliera employs sociological and political theories to reveal that, while social capital is generally considered a mechanism of exclusion in the West, in post-socialist contexts it has been leveraged by artists and curators as a vital means of communication and action.
Art · Art history · Civil society · Collective action · Contemporary art · European union · Exhibition · Ideology · Neoliberalism (international relations) · Political science · Politics · Reciprocity (cultural anthropology) · Social capital · Social science · Sociology · Solidarity · Visual arts · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Law
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Performing art history
From Passion to Compassion
Practice Theory and Postsocialist Civil Society
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,71 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2024 (6) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |