Art Beyond Borders : Artistic Exchange in Communist Europe (1945-1989).

Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- List of Illustrations -- Making Critical Art History in a Time of Academic Conformism -- 1. Introduction: Geography of Internationalism -- Part I · moving people -- 2. The Moscow Underground Art Scene in an International Perspective -- 3. The British Art Critic and the Russian Sculptor: The Making of John Berger's Art and Revolution -- 4. Pop Art in the GDR: Willy Wolff's Dialogue with the West -- 5. Twinkling Networks, Invisible Ties: On the Unofficial Contacts of Byelorussian Artists in the 1980s -- 6. Chocolate, Pop and Socialism: Peter Ludwig and the GDR -- 7. Gabriele Mucchi's Career Paths in Italy, Czechoslovakia and the GDR -- 8. The Murals by Spanish Exile Josep Renau in Halle-Neustadt, a Socialist Town Built for Chemical Workers in the GDR -- 9. Women Artists' Trajectories and Networks within the Hungarian Underground Art Scene and Beyond -- 10. Heightened Alert: The Underground Art Scene in the Sights of the Secret Police-Surveillance Files as a Resource for Research into Artists' Activities in the Underground ofthe 1960s and 1970s -- Part II· moving objects -- 11. Remapping Socialist Realism: Renato Guttuso in Poland -- 12. Picasso behind the Iron Curtain: From the History of the Postwar Reception of Pablo Picasso in East-Central Europe -- 13. On Propagarde: The Late Period of the Romanian Artist M. H. Maxy -- 14. Realism and Internationalism: On Neuererdiskussion by Willi Neubert (1969) -- 15. Socialist Realism in Greece (1944-67) -- 16. Constructive-Concrete Art in the GDR, Poland, and Hungary -- 17. Nationalizing Modernism: Exhibitions of Hungarian and Czechoslovakian Avant-garde in Warsaw -- 18. Avant-garde Construction: Leonhard Lapin and His Concept of Objective Art -- 19. Fluxus in Prague: The Koncert Fluxu of 1966.

20. International Contact with Mail Art in the Spirit of Peaceful Coexistence: Birger Jesch's Mail Art Project (1980-81) -- Part III · gathering people -- 21. (Socialist) Realism Unbound: The Effects of International Encounters on Soviet Art Practice and Discourse in the Khrushchev Thaw -- 22. "Friendly Atmospheres"? The Union Internationale des Architectes between East and West in the 1950s -- 23. Zagreb as the Location of the "New Tendencies" International Art Movement (1961-73) -- 24. The Graphic Arts Biennials in the 1950s and 1960s: The Slim "Cut" in the Iron Curtain-The Bulgarian Case -- 25. The Biennale der Ostseeländer: The GDR's Main International Arts Exhibition -- 26. Czechoslovakia at the Venice Biennale in the 1950s -- 27. "Biennale of Dissent" (1977): Nonconformist Art from the USSR in Venice -- 28. Correcting the Czech(oslovakian) Error: The Cooperation of Hungarian and Czechoslovakian Artists in the Face of the Warsaw Pact Invasion of Czechoslovakia -- 29. Crossing the Border: The Foksal Gallery from Warsaw in Lausanne/Paris (1970) and Edinburgh (1972 and 1979) -- 30. To Each Their Own Reality: The Art of the FRG and the GDR at the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris in 1981 -- Part IV · defining europe -- 31. Moscow-Paris-Havana-Mexico, 1945-60 -- 32. A Dying Colonialism, a Dying Orientalism: Algeria, 1952 -- 33. Global Socialist Realism: The Representation of Non-European Cultures in Polish Art of the 1950s -- 34. The Influence of Käthe Kollwitz on Chinese Creation: Between Expressionism and Revolutionary Realism -- 35. The Eastern Connection: Depictions of Soviet Central Asia -- 36. The Visualization of the Third Way in Tito's Yugoslavia -- Name Index -- Plates -- Back cover.

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