Beyond Belief

by Hoptman, Laura J.; Beke, Laszlo; Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago, Ill.)

• ISBN13: 9780933856387
• ISBN10: 0933856385
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-09-01
• Publisher: Museum of Contemporary Art

Summary

Over the past 50 years, East European artists have seen the virtual breakdown of their societies and their cultures. Instead of seeking to replace their devalued ideologies with new belief systems, many have profoundly challenged the very concept of belief systems. In this provocative exhibition catalogue, artists and essayists from Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Romania, Bulgari and Slovakia confront Eastern Europe's cultural watershed head on. In addition to the excellent illustrations, the book includes a foldout timeline of noteworthy events since 1945, plus regional maps and a statistical profile of each country.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Introduction
Acknowledgments
Seeing is Believing	p. 1
Romanian Democracy and Its Discontents	p. 15
Between Institution and Tradition: The Artist in Search of Freedom	p. 25
The Old Attitude and the New Faith	p. 35
No One Has Ever Seen God	p. 47
Too Much Subjectivity?	p. 59
Post-Totalitarian Blues with a Happy Ending	p. 69
From Transformation to Mutation: Slovak Culture and Its Teething Pains at the End of the Twentieth Century	p. 79
East Central Europe from the Perspective of a Hungarian Curator	p. 87
Plates	p. 95
Timeline: East Central Europe 1945 to 1995	p. 127
Statistical Profiles	p. 142
Checklist of the Exhibition	p. 145
Contributor Biographies	p. 147
Artist Biographies	p. 148
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