Art Beyond Borders: Artistic Exchange in Communist Europe (1945-1989)

532 Pages·2016·125.307 MB·English

by  Jerome Bazin

Art Art
beyond
Borders
Borders
beyond beyond
Artistic Edited by Artistic Exchange in
Exchange in Jérôme Bazin
Communist Europe
Communist
Pascal Dubourg Glatigny
Europe
[1945–1989]
and Piotr Piotrowski
[1945–1989]
Bazin
Dubourg Glatigny
Piotrowski
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Leipzig Studies on the History and
Culture of East-Central Europe
Volume iii
Series Editors:
Christian Lübke and Stefan Troebst
Edited by
Jérôme Bazin
Pascal Dubourg Glatigny
and Piotr Piotrowski
Central European University Press
Budapest – New York
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Art
Borders
beyond
Artistic Exchange in
Communist Europe
[1945–1989]
Edited by
Jérôme Bazin
Pascal Dubourg Glatigny
and Piotr Piotrowski
Central European University Press
Budapest – New York
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© 2016 Jérôme Bazin, Pascal Dubourg Glatigny, and Piotr Piotrowski
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Art beyond borders (Central European University Press)
Art beyond borders : artistic exchange in communist Europe (1945-1989) / Edited by Jérôme
Bazin, Pascal Dubourg Glatigny, and Piotr Piotrowski.
pages cm
ISBN 978-9633860830 (hardbound)
1. Art and society--Communist countries. 2. Art--Foreign influences--Communist
countries--20th century. 3. Art, European--20th century. 4. Cultural relations--History--
20th century. I. Bazin, Jérôme, 1982- editor. II. Dubourg Glatigny, Pascal, 1969, editor. III.
Piotrowski, Piotr, 1952-2015, editor. IV. Title.
N72.S6A723 2015
701’.03--dc23
2015004864
Printed in Hungary by Prime Rate Kft., Budapest
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Table of contents
List of Illustrations ix
Making Critical Art History in a Time of Academic Conformism.
Piotr Piotrowski (1952–2015) xi
1. Introduction: Geography of Internationalism 1
Jérôme Bazin, Pascal Dubourg Glatigny, and Piotr Piotrowski
part i · moving people
2. The Moscow Underground Art Scene in an International
Perspective 31
Lola Kantor-Kazovsky
3. The British Art Critic and the Russian Sculptor:
The Making of John Berger’s Art and Revolution 45
Kai Artinger
4. Pop Art in the GDR: Willy Wolff’s Dialogue with the West 57
Sigrid Hofer
5. Twinkling Networks, Invisible Ties: On the Unofficial
Contacts of Byelorussian Artists in the 1980s 71
Aliona Gloukhova
6. Chocolate, Pop and Socialism: Peter Ludwig and the GDR 81
Boris Pofalla
7. Gabriele Mucchi’s Career Paths in Italy, Czechoslovakia
and the GDR 91
Fabio Guidali
8. The Murals by Spanish Exile Josep Renau in Halle-Neustadt,
a Socialist Town Built for Chemical Workers in the GDR 101
Anja Jackes
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9. Women Artists’ Trajectories and Networks within
the Hungarian Underground Art Scene and Beyond 113
Beata Hock
10. Heightened Alert: The Underground Art Scene in the Sights
of the Secret Police—Surveillance Files as a Resource for
Research into Artists’ Activities in the Underground of
the 1960s and 1970s 125
Kata Krasznahorkai
part ii · moving objects
11. Remapping Socialist Realism: Renato Guttuso in Poland 139
Katarzyna Murawska-Muthesius
12. Picasso behind the Iron Curtain: From the History of
the Postwar Reception of Pablo Picasso in East-Central Europe 151
Piotr Bernatowicz
13. On Propagarde: The Late Period of the Romanian
Artist M. H. Maxy 165
Erwin Kessler
14. Realism and Internationalism: On Neuererdiskussion
by Willi Neubert (1969) 179
Jérôme Bazin
15. Socialist Realism in Greece (1944–67) 191
Costas Baroutas
16. Constructive-Concrete Art in the GDR, Poland, and Hungary 201
Doris Hartmann
17. Nationalizing Modernism: Exhibitions of Hungarian
and Czechoslovakian Avant-garde in Warsaw 209
Piotr Piotrowski
18. Avant-garde Construction: Leonhard Lapin and His Concept
of Objective Art 225
Mari Laanemets
19. Fluxus in Prague: The Koncert Fluxu of 1966 241
Petra Stegmann
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20. International Contact with Mail Art in the Spirit of Peaceful
Coexistence: Birger Jesch’s Mail Art Project (1980–81) 255
Stefanie Schwabe
part iii · gathering people
21. (Socialist) Realism Unbound: The Effects of International
Encounters on Soviet Art Practice and Discourse in the
Khrushchev Thaw 267
Susan E. Reid
22. “Friendly Atmospheres”? The Union Internationale des
Architectes between East and West in the 1950s 297
Alexandra Köhring
23. Zagreb as the Location of the “New Tendencies” International
Art Movement (1961–73) 311
Ljilana Kolesnik
24. The Graphic Arts Biennials in the 1950s and 1960s:
The Slim “Cut” in the Iron Curtain—The Bulgarian Case 323
Irina Genova
25. The Biennale der Ostseeländer: The GDR’s Main
International Arts Exhibition 335
Elke Neumann
26. Czechoslovakia at the Venice Biennale in the 1950s 345
Veronika Wolf
27. “Biennale of Dissent” (1977): Nonconformist Art from
the USSR in Venice 357
Jan May
28. Correcting the Czech(oslovakian) Error: The Cooperation
of Hungarian and Czechoslovakian Artists in the Face of
the Warsaw Pact Invasion of Czechoslovakia 369
Magdalena Radomska
29. Crossing the Border: The Foksal Gallery from Warsaw in
Lausanne/Paris (1970) and Edinburgh (1972 and 1979) 381
Thomas Skowronek
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30. To Each Their Own Reality: The Art of the FRG
and the GDR at the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville
de Paris in 1981 393
Mathilde Arnoux
part iv · defining europe
31. Moscow–Paris–Havana–Mexico, 1945–60 405
Serge Fauchereau
32. A Dying Colonialism, a Dying Orientalism: Algeria, 1952 423
Sarah Wilson
33. Global Socialist Realism: The Representation
of Non-European Cultures in Polish Art of the 1950s 439
Andrzej Szczerski
34. The Influence of Käthe Kollwitz on Chinese Creation:
Between Expressionism and Revolutionary Realism 453
Estelle Bories
35. The Eastern Connection: Depictions of Soviet Central Asia 461
Aliya Abykayeva-Tiesenhausen
36. The Visualization of the Third Way in Tito’s Yugoslavia 473
Tanja Zimmermann
Name Index 485
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List of Illustrations
list of figures
Figure 1.1., 1.2., and 1.3. Forces Murales and Métiers du Mur,
La marche au socialisme. 11
Figure 1.4. Andrzej Kostołowski and Jarosław Kozłowski, NET. 27
Figure 2.1. Michail Grobman, Vitaly Stesin Has Caught this Butterfly. 35
Figure 2.2. Michel Ragon in Moscow. 39
Figure 3.1. Jean Mohr, L’atelier de Neizvestny. 50
Figure 3.2. Jean Mohr, “Le suicide”, sculpture de Neizvestny. 35
Figure 5.1. Exhibition in the gallery Napiórkowskiej w restauracji
Pod Krokodylem. 78
Figure 9.1. Judit Kele, I Am a Work of Art. 119
Figure 9.2. Katalin Ladik, Performance. 121
Figure 11.1. Opening page of Guttuso’s article “Vanity Fair”
in Przegląd Artystyczny, 1954. 147
Figure 15.1. Alebisos Tassos, Gorgopotamos. 194
Figure 15.2. Georges Dimou, Makronisos. 195
Figure 19.1. Milan Knížák, Serge Oldenbourg and Ben Vautier performing
Robert Watts’s Trace for Orchestra. 247
Figure 19.2. Audience members performing Ben Vautier’s Public Amusement /
Baudruche de Ben after the concert. 252
Figure 22.1. “Students works. Town planning.” 302
Figure 22.2. “Moscou. Urbanisme, architecture et techniques de construction.” 306
Figure 23.1. Ivan Picelj, exhibition poster for New Tendencies 2. 317
Figure 23.2. View of the exhibition Tendencies 4. 319
Figure 25.1. Hubert Link, Rostock, Opening Biennale der Ostseestaaten, 1969. 336
Figure 25.2. Tom Maercker, Kunsthalle Rostock. 340
Figure 26.1. Josef Kostka, Cooperator. 352
Figure 26.2. Cyril Bouda, Illustrations for Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift. 353
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