Dia: Chelsea Bookshop Public event: Book launch Requiem for Communism, by Charity Scribner Saturday, 6 December from five o’clock to seven o’clock Hosted by the Dia Center for the Arts and the MIT Press at: Dia: Chelsea Bookshop Dia Center for the Arts 548 West 22nd Street New York 10011 http://www.diabooks.org About the book: Requiem for Communism examines the politics of memory in postindustrial literature and art. Writers and artists from Europe’s “second world” have responded to the last socialist crisis with works that range from sober description to melancholic fixation. This book is the first survey of this cultural field. “Requiem is a meditation on transition, failed utopias, and the twentieth century, rendered from the comparative perspective of how literature and art intervene to force disclosures on the ideological forces and political events that attended the dissolution of the socialist project in Western and Eastern Europe.” –Okwui Enwezor “A brilliant book– subtle in its perception of the cultural meanings of social transition processes and clear in its analytical methods.” –Oskar Negt Charity Scribner is Assistant Professor of European Studies at MIT. Book info: http://www.mitpress.mit.edu ISBN 0-262-19488-0 6 x 9, 320 pp., 30 illus. (CLOTH) Event info: http://www.diabooks.org T: 212.989.5566 F: 212.989.4055 E: cs3@mit.edu MTA: C/E to 23rd Street and Eighth Avenue