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Transitional aesthetics : contemporary art at the edge of Europe / Uroš Čvoro

Author
Čvoro, Uroš
Published
London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2018.
Copyright Date
©2018
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1 online resource : illustrations (some color).
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Contents
Intro; Title Page; Copypright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; List of Illustrations; Introduction: In Transition; The return of temporality; The scope of transitional aesthetics; The approach; Chapter 1: The Politics of Transitional Aesthetics; Walter Benjamin and the dialectical image; Temporality and nationalism in the former Yugoslavia; Transition as a temporal ideology; Yugoslavia in-between, post and beyond; Chapter 2: 'We Came to Take Your Jobs Away': Migration and Agency in the Work of Tanja Ostojić and Angela Melitopoulos; Temporality of Europe., Looking for a husband with EU passportCorridor X; Chapter 3: Going Too Far: Translation and Over-identification as a Critique of Transition; Transition as cultural translation; The Janez Janša Project; Shoum; Chapter 4: Halfway Tradition; Between the European Union and the Balkans as symbolic spaces; Death anniversary; Balkan Erotic Epic; The Garden of Earthly Delights; Chapter 5: The Afterlife of Abandoned Monuments; Abandoned futures; Monument; Scenes for a New Heritage; Chapter 6: Transitional Archives: Art and Historical Memory in Former Yugoslavia., and Reconfiguring time through the archiveJournal No 1 -- An Artist's Impression; 19:30; Gypsies and Dogs; Afterword: Beyond Transitional Aesthetics; Bibliography; Index.
Summary
Using the way in which artists from the former Eastern bloc perceive the experience of EU integration and transition from a Soviet past as a conceptual launching pad, this book explores how artists critically inhabit a permanent state of 'in-between' to capture the simultaneous existence of multiple and overlapping temporalities. Transitional aesthetics are artistic strategies that disrupt and interrogate ideologically loaded trajectories of cultural, social, or political transition. Examples of such trajectories include the movement from totalitarianism to democracy (post-socialism), from war to freedom and reconciliation (post-conflict), and from the edges of Europe to its centre (inclusion in the European Union). These transitional states include: the future orientation of (failed) socialism and the perpetual present of global capital; the history of unresolved past conflicts and reconciliation through 'transitional justice'; nationalist obsessions with the past and the cultural appeal of kitsch and retro objects in fashion, film and music; and the uncertain future promise of EU membership and resurgence of global right-wing populism, headed by figures like Berlusconi, Le Pen, and Trump. Transitional Aesthetics shows that apprehending time in contemporary art is fundamental to capturing the lived experience of a permanent state of instability; particularly relevant to Europe in the contemporary moment. In a world that has entered 'accelerated transition' towards instability, understanding this experience has broad and resonating relevance for politics, art and society.
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ISBN
9781350053403 (electronic book)
1350053406 (electronic book)
9781350053434 (electronic book)
1350053430 (electronic book)
9781350053441 (online)
1350053449
9781350053427 (paperback)
1350053422
1350053414
9781350053410
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references.
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