Art and theory after socialism

Abstract

From shamed to famed : the transition of a former Eastern German arts academy to the talent hotbed of a contemporary painters' school : the Hochschüle für Grafik und Buchkunst, Leipzig / Sophie A. Gerlach -- Attacking objectification : Jerzy Bereś in dialogue with Marcel Duchamp / Klara Kemp-Welch -- On the ruins of a utopia : Armenian avant-garde and the group act / Angela Harutyunyan -- Art communities, public spaces and collective actions in Armenian contemporary art / Vardan Azatyan -- Appropriating the ex-Cold War / Malcolm Miles -- The end of an idea : on art, horizons and the post-socialist condition / Simon Sheikh -- Exploring critical and political art in the United Kingdom and Serbia / Sophie Hope & Marko Stamenkovic -- Other landscapes (for Weimar, Goethe and Schiller) / Daniela Brasil -- The ecology of post-socialism and the implications of sustainability for contemporary art / Maja Fowkes and Reuben Fowkes -- Functions, functionalism and functionlessness : on the social function of public art after modernism / Freee Art Collective