Plural and Multiple Geographies of Modern and Contemporary Art in East-Central Europe

This edited volume proposes a theoretical reflection on the different artistic geographies of East-Central Europe (ECE) from an interdisciplinary perspective found at the intersection of art history, art and politics, and critical geography. Contributors argue that this multiplicity is a defining feature of the region. At the same time, chapters employ the concept of “plural geographies” and call for an equal geography, based on solidarity and an equal distribution of capital, which could allow plural geographies to exist and be described. The “multiple geographies” of ECE consider the perspective of local conditions and emphasize how this region was part of successive empires with an important ethnic diversity and changing borders, giving it historical layers and multicultural characteristics. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, political studies, cultural studies, and geography. Cover Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Contents List of Figures List of Contributors Introduction PART I: Plural Geographies of East-Central European Art 1. Plural Geography(ies): Between Class Division and Relations of Production 2. Discontinuity. Considering East-Central Europe as a Discontinuous Space 3. Points East: The Geo-Epistemology of East European Art through Conference History 4. Capitalism, Geographies, the Racial/Colonial, and the Imperial/Colonial Divide PART II: Multiple Geographies – Non-hierarchical, Flexible Mapping, and Non-mapping 5. Plurimodern Constellations: Scales of Analysis in the Spatial History of Art 6. The Hegemonic Gaze and East-Central Europe: Challenging the Totalitarian Paradigm 7. The Arts of Mapping (East Central) Europe and David Černý’s Entropa 8. A Shift from the Geopolitics of Place to the Chronopolitics of Time in East-Central Europe? PART III: Geographies of Peripheral Solidarity 9. The Alternative Geography of Socialist Cultural International