Review of Ana Janevski et al, editors. Art and Theory of Post-1989 Central and Eastern Europe: A Critical Anthology
In: East/West: journal of Ukrainian Studies, Band 10, Heft 1, S. 179-181
ISSN: 2292-7956
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In: East/West: journal of Ukrainian Studies, Band 10, Heft 1, S. 179-181
ISSN: 2292-7956
In: Slavic review: interdisciplinary quarterly of Russian, Eurasian and East European studies, Band 81, Heft 2, S. 562-563
ISSN: 2325-7784
In: Slavic review: interdisciplinary quarterly of Russian, Eurasian and East European studies, Band 81, Heft 4, S. 1121-1122
ISSN: 2325-7784
In: East/West: journal of Ukrainian Studies, Band 7, Heft 2, S. 3-31
ISSN: 2292-7956
Chornobyl/Chernobyl/Charnobyl has a symbolic meaning for several generations of east Europeans. It is a city that experienced a disastrous nuclear explosion in 1986 that bequeathed a post-apocalyptic landscape and an eloquent demonstration of the Anthropocene. The epistemological crisis for humanity provoked by the Chornobyl nuclear disaster led to the emergence of post-Chornobyl art, an art of acceptance and denial, an art of physical and emotional trauma, an art that symbolized humanity's responsibility for the future.
This paper focuses on art works produced in the first two decades after the explosion at the Chornobyl nuclear plant. The range of art pieces examined in this paper is diverse, from representational art to conceptual installations. The article is an attempt to analyze the trend of post-Chornobyl art created by witnesses of the tragedy. They are Belarusian and Ukrainian artists for whom Chornobyl epitomizes the point of non-return, the overwhelming tragedy of their people, and the devastation of their land; and for whom Chornobyl is an inverted metaphor of the legitimacy of peaceful atom and the results of the Anthropocene. The paper employs Griselda Pollock's theoretical approach to trauma and focuses on the art of the maternal created by artists of both genders
In: East/West: journal of Ukrainian Studies, Band 6, Heft 1, S. 217-219
ISSN: 2292-7956
Book review of Matthew S. Witkovsky and Devin Fore, editors. Revoliutsiia! Demonstratsiia! Soviet Art Put to the Test. Contributors, Yve-Alain Bois et al., foreword by James Rondeau, The Art Institute of Chicago, 2017. Distributed by Yale UP. 324 pp. Illustrations. Checklist. Bibliography. Index. $65.00, cloth.
In: Canadian Slavonic papers: an interdisciplinary journal devoted to Central and Eastern Europe, Band 61, Heft 1, S. 127-129
ISSN: 2375-2475
In: Canadian Slavonic papers: an interdisciplinary journal devoted to Central and Eastern Europe, Band 60, Heft 3-4, S. 614-616
ISSN: 2375-2475
In: East/West: journal of Ukrainian Studies, Band 5, Heft 1, S. 181-183
ISSN: 2292-7956
Book review of Vita Susak. Ukrainian Artists in Paris: 1900–1939. Translated by Serhiy Synhayivsky (main text and notes) and Anna Susak ("A Dictionary of Ukrainian Artists in Paris"), edited by Romana Labrosse, foreword by Jean-Claude Marcadé, Rodovid Press, 2010. 408 pp. Illustrations. Endnotes. Selected Bibliography. Appendix. Index. $75.00, cloth.
In: Canadian Slavonic papers: an interdisciplinary journal devoted to Central and Eastern Europe, Band 58, Heft 1, S. 97-98
ISSN: 2375-2475
In: Canadian Slavonic papers: an interdisciplinary journal devoted to Central and Eastern Europe, Band 52, Heft 1-2, S. 169-237
ISSN: 2375-2475