East of Art: Transformations in Eastern Europe
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MoMA presents - East of Art: Transformations in Eastern Europe
A Symposium on the Occasion of the Publication of Primary Documents:
A Sourcebook for Eastern and Central European Art since the 1950s
Tuesday, March 11, 2003. 6:30 pm
Panelists
BORIS GROYS, Professor of Philosophy and Media Theory, Academy for
Design, Karlsruhe, Germany, and Rector, Vienna Academy of Fine Arts
KATARZYNA KOZYRA, Artist, Warsaw
BOJANA PEJIÆ, Art Historian and Curator, Berlin and Belgrade
SLAVOJ ŽIŽEK, Cultural Critic and Philosopher, and Senior
Researcher, Institute for Sociology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Moderators, Editors of Primary Documents
LAURA HOPTMAN, Curator of Contemporary Art, Carnegie Museum of Art,
Pittsburgh, PA
TOMÁŠ POSPISZYL, Art Historian and Curator, and Editor of
Umìlec/Artist,
Prague
Respondent
ROGER L. CONOVER, Executive Editor, The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA
The political landscape of Eastern and Central Europe has changed
radically over the past decade. How have these changes influenced art in
the region? Has art helped reshape cultural identities?
This symposium will explore the historical, political, and artistic
contexts surrounding art in Eastern European countries. Panelists
include prominent cultural historians, an artist and a curator, all of whose
writings appear in The Museum of Modern Art’s new publication
Primary Documents: A Sourcebook for Eastern and Central European Art since the
1950s. The first English-language collection of documents on modern
art drawn directly from the artistic archives of Eastern and Central Europe,
this important volume serves as an introduction to the region’s
major artistic and critical movements from the latter half of the twentieth
century.
The panel discussion is made possible by The Trust for Mutual
Understanding, The Jo Carole and Ronald S. Lauder Travel Fund for
Central and Eastern Europe, and The International Council of The Museum of
Modern Art, and is organized by the International Program and the Department of
Education of The Museum of Modern Art.
Tickets are $7, $5 members, $3 students, and are available at the MoMA
QNS Lobby Ticketing Desk, 33 Street at Queens Boulevard; The MoMA Design
Stores, 44 West 53 Street and 81 Spring Street; and at the door on the
night of the event. Tickets can be used as same-value vouchers when
purchasing the publication at the event.
Primary Documents: A Sourcebook for Eastern and Central European Art
since
the 1950s
Edited by Laura Hoptman and Tomáš Pospiszyl, with a Foreword by
Ilya
Kabakov
90 illustrations; 376 pages. $29.95
Available Now. Published by The Museum of Modern Art, distributed
by MIT
Press
The publication was generously sponsored by The International Council of
The Museum of Modern Art. Additional support was provided by The Trust
for Mutual Understanding.
