Paper Revolutions by Sarah E. James - ISBN: 9780262046565
Hardcover
East German artists defied censorship, creating radical art beyond Western assumptions.

Paper Revolutions

An Invisible Avant-Garde

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  • Hardcover

    296 pages

  • Release Date

    3 May 2022

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Summary

In Paper Revolutions, Sarah James offers a radical rethinking of experimental art in the former East Germany (the GDR). Countering conventional accounts that claim artistic practices in the GDR were isolated and conservative, James introduces a new narrative of neo-avantgarde practice in the Eastern Bloc that subverts many of the assumptions underpinning Western art’s postwar histories. She grounds her argument in the practice of four artists who, uniquely positioned outside academie…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780262046565
ISBN-10:0262046563
Author:Sarah E. James
Publisher:MIT Press Ltd
Imprint:MIT Press
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:296
Release Date:3 May 2022
Weight:567g
Dimensions:229mm x 178mm
About The Author

Sarah E. James

Sarah E. James, an art historian and writer, is the author of Common Ground- German Photographic Cultures Beyond the Iron Curtain. Currently a Gerda Henkel Professorial Fellow in Frankfurt am Main, she was Associate Professor in History of Art at University College London and Lecturer at the University of Oxford.

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