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ARTMargins Online: Book Reviews

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 by Jason Mientkiewicz ·

The 1982 Exchange between Łódź and Los Angeles

Agnieszka Pindera, ed., The 1982 Exchange between Łódź and Los Angeles (Łódź: Muzeum Sztuki w Łodzi, 2024) 447 pp.

With refreshing frankness, The 1982 Cultural Exchange between Łódź and Los Angeles announces its subject with its title. In the early 1980s, artists working in Poland and the United States exchanged artworks to become part of the collections of the Museum of Art in Łódź (Muzeum Sztuki) and the newly opened Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), respectively. Fourteen artists primarily based in Warsaw and associated with the Foksal Gallery represented Poland by sending works to the newly opened Museum … Read more

ARTMargins Online: Forum

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 by Octavian Esanu, Suzana Milevska, Barbora Kundračíková, Karolina Łabowicz-Dymanus, Kristóf Nagy, Cristian Nae, Jonida Gashi, Denisa Tomková, Tihomir Topuzovski ·

Return to Order: Art and National Populism in Eastern Europe: A Roundtable of the Concerned (Part One)

Hosted across ARTMargins Online and ARTMargins Print Journal, this roundtable brings together art critics, cultural managers, and curators from Hungary, Slovakia, Czechia, Romania, Albania, North Macedonia, and Poland to discuss the impact of populist leadership on the art and cultural lives of their respective countries.(Part 2 will be published in an upcoming issue of ARTMargins Print Journal. The uneven representation of contributors across countries is not premeditated but reflects the contingencies of the editorial process.)

National, or right-wing populism, to use the distinction made in political theory,(For a left, and right-wing populism see the writings … Read more

ARTMargins Online: Book Reviews

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 by Gabriela Sitek ·

Experimental Cinemas in State-Socialist Eastern Europe

Ksenya Gurshtein and Sonja Simonyi, eds., Experimental Cinemas in State-Socialist Eastern Europe (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press B.V., 2022), 334 PP.

Experimental Cinemas in State-Socialist Eastern Europe contains thirteen essays that address film production between the 1950s and the late 1980s in the national contexts of state-socialist countries outside the former U.S.S.R.: Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and Yugoslavia. The aim of the book is to fill the gap in English-language literature on postwar experimental filmmaking in Eastern Europe, which is still mostly constituted by studies focusing on experimental film culture in individual countries. The book’s transnational perspective gives

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ARTMargins Online: Book Reviews

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 by Júliusz Huth ·

Beyond the 3 Ts: Promote, Tolerate, Ban – Art and Culture in Cold War Hungary

Cristina Cuevas-Wolf and Isotta Poggi, eds., Promote, Tolerate, Ban: Art and Culture in Cold War Hungary (Getty Publications, 2018), 160 PP. 

The curators of the Getty Research Institute and The Wende Museum of the Cold War undertook a difficult task with an exhibition in Los Angeles, entitled Promote, Tolerate, Ban – Art and Culture in Cold War Hungary,(Eastern European regimes operating before 1989 were not, in fact, communist states. In my view, even the ‘state socialist’ adjective is inappropriate for the Kádár regime, especially since the mid-1960s, but the now increasingly common term ‘state capitalism’ is not yet … Read more