Parallel Public
Experimental Art in Late East Germany
Published on 1. March 2022
Book
Hardback
296 pages
978-0-262-04663-3 (ISBN)
Description
"The untold history of experimental art in a late GDR; analyzes photography, performance art, film, publications & galleries as a form of public life that destabilized the State"--
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge (Massachusetts)
United States
Publishing group
MIT Press Ltd
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
81 figures
Dimensions
Height: 232 mm
Width: 187 mm
Thickness: 32 mm
Weight
904 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-262-04663-3 (9780262046633)
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Person
Sara Blaylock is Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Minnesota Duluth.
Content
Introduction: Born into Socialism (1)
1 "Negative-Hostile Attitudes": Artists Work their Stasi Files (27)
2 The Body in Ruins: Photographs by Thomas Florschuetz and Performances by the Auto-Perforation Artists (53)
3 The Taboo of the Ordinary, the Valor of the Misfit: Photographs by Gundula Schulze Eldowy and Films by Cornelia Schleime (89)
4 Making a Scene: Films by Gino Hahnemann (121)
5 Types, Kinds, and Genres of Art: The Intermedia I Festival in 1985 (155)
6 The Collective Impossible: Erfurt's Women Artists Group (187)
7 DIY Public Sphere: A Counterdiscourse in the Publication Anschlag and the Gallery Eigen+Art (215)
Coda: There is no East German Art without East Germany (247)
Acknowledgments (253)
Notes (257)
Bibliography (287)
Index (307)
1 "Negative-Hostile Attitudes": Artists Work their Stasi Files (27)
2 The Body in Ruins: Photographs by Thomas Florschuetz and Performances by the Auto-Perforation Artists (53)
3 The Taboo of the Ordinary, the Valor of the Misfit: Photographs by Gundula Schulze Eldowy and Films by Cornelia Schleime (89)
4 Making a Scene: Films by Gino Hahnemann (121)
5 Types, Kinds, and Genres of Art: The Intermedia I Festival in 1985 (155)
6 The Collective Impossible: Erfurt's Women Artists Group (187)
7 DIY Public Sphere: A Counterdiscourse in the Publication Anschlag and the Gallery Eigen+Art (215)
Coda: There is no East German Art without East Germany (247)
Acknowledgments (253)
Notes (257)
Bibliography (287)
Index (307)