Parallel Public
Experimental Art in Late East Germany
$54.75
- Hardcover
296 pages
- Release Date
16 March 2022
Summary
Experimental artists in the final years of the German Democratic Republic did not practice their art in the shadows, on the margins, hiding away from the Stasi’s prying eyes. In fact, as Sara Blaylock shows, many cultivated a critical influence over the very bureaucracies meant to keep them in line, undermining state authority through forthright rather than covert projects. In Parallel Public, Blaylock describes how some East German artists made their country’s experimental art scene…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262046633 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262046636 |
| Author: | Sara Blaylock |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 296 |
| Release Date: | 16 March 2022 |
| Weight: | 567g |
| Dimensions: | 178mm x 229mm |
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Critics Review
“Blaylock’s account is thickly detailed and scrupulous in its assessment of artistic strategies in the late GDR. Its own critical agenda and scholarly rigour offer valuable pointers for further assessments of Cold War culture.”
—Times Literary Supplement
“Rather then examining GDR art in light of styles and tendencies in the West, which claimed the privilege to be the place where history was made, Blaylock stresses the need to study non-Western art in its own right, no longer a periphery and a somewhat pitiful belated answer to Western trends and models, but an autonomous system with its own logic and stakes. In that sense, taking the GDR as an exemplary case study should help fight universalizing visions on “world” culture. Parallel Public looks into completely different directions, which will prove dramatically inspiring in the years to come, now that the “one world” belief is also collapsing in the turmoil of history.”
—Leonardo
“Blaylock’s perspective allows the reader to discover that, in the late years of not only GDR but in many Soviet republics, many artists operated in the vast interstitial space between State-sanctioned and alternative culture as official titles gave the artists the means to practice art while unofficial culture widened their perspective.”
—Visual Studies
Sara Blaylock
Sara Blaylock is Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Minnesota Duluth.
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