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ANN: Performance art in Eastern Europe since 1960
Performance art in Eastern Europe since 1960
By Amy Bryzgel
This volume presents the first comprehensive academic study of the history and development of performance art in the former communist countries of Central, Eastern and South Eastern Europe since the 1960s. Covering 21 countries and more than 250 artists, this text demonstrates the manner in which performance art in the region developed concurrently with the genre in the West, highlighting the unique contributions of Eastern European artists. The discussions are based on primary source material-interviews with the artists themselves. It offers a comparative study of the genre of performance art in countries and cities across the region, examining the manner in which artists addressed issues such as the body, gender, politics and identity, and institutional critique.
Publisher: Manchester University Press http://www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781784994228/
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CONF: The Russian Century: The Literary, Visual, and Performing Arts, 1801-1917
Conference: The Russian Century: The Literary, Visual, and Performing Arts, 1801-1917
September 30-October 1, 2016
Yale University
Henry R. Luce Hall Auditorium
34 Hillhouse Avenue
New Haven, CTOrganised by Molly Brunson and Bella Grigoryan
Since 1991, the classical Russian literature of the nineteenth century has gone through both eclipse and revival. Modernist and post-modernist accounts of Russian culture that came to the fore in the late 1980s have begun to give way to a reinterpretation of the nineteenth century, one that adds to the Russian classics a wider perspective encompassing music, visual arts, and theater and new methodologies. This process is only beginning and requires a united effort of scholars to succeed.
Inspired by this renewed interest in the nineteenth century and the general shift toward destabilizing disciplinary and historiographic borders, this conference, under the guidance of Molly Brunson, Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, brings together prominent senior scholars and emerging junior scholars from Russia, Europe, and the U.S., and from a wide range of fields (language and literature, musicology, art and architecture history, performance studies and drama history).
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Sponsored by the European Studies Council, the Russian Studies Program with a grant from the Carnegie Corporation, the Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Memorial Fund, the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale, and the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures.
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ANN: The Russian Century, September 30-October 1, Yale University
ANN: The Russian Century - The Literary, Visual, and Performing Arts, 1801–1917
Yale University, September 30 - October 1, 2016
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Contact: Molly Brunson and Bella Grigoryan
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