Piotr Piotrowski Studies
Piotrowski, Piotr. In the Shadow of Yalta: Art and the Avant-garde in Eastern Europe, 1945- 1989. London: Reaktion Books, 2009.
Piotrowski, Piotr. “Towards A Horizontal History of Modern Art.” In Writing Central European Art History: PATTERNS Travelling Lecture Set 2008/2009. Vienna: Erste Foundation,4, 2008.
Piotrowski, Piotr. Art and Democracy in Post-communist Europe. London: Reaktion Books, 2012.
After Piotr Piotrowski: Art, Democracy and Friendship. Edited by Agata Jakubowska and Magdalena Radomska. Poznań: Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM, 2019.
Piotrowski, Piotr. The Global Viewpoint of Eastern European Art (last unfinished book publish posthumously in Polish language in 2018).
Piotr Piotrowski Center for Research on East-Central European Art at Adam Mickiewicz University, Department of Art History, http://piotrpiotrowskicenter.amu.edu.pl/en/news/.
Middle Europe Studies
Appiah, Kwame Anthony. Cosmopolitanism. Ethics in the World of Strangers. New York: W.W. Norton, 2006.
Derrida, Jacques. Archive Fever: A Freudian Impression. Translated by Eric Prenovitz. London and Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.
Groys, Boris. Art Power. Cambridge MA: MIT Press, 2008.
Atlas of Transformation. Edited by Zbynek Baladran and Vit Havranek. Zurich: JRP Ringer, 2011. http://www.monumenttotransformation.org/
Wolff, Larry. Inventing Eastern Europe: The Map of Civilization on the Mind of the Enlightenment. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1994.
Crossroads in Central-Europe. Ideas, Themes, Methods and Problems of Contemporary Art and Art Criticism. Edited by Katalin Keserü. Budapest: Egregia, 1996.
Europa! Europa? The Avant-garde, Modernism and the Fate of a Continent. Edited by Sascha Bru and Peter Nicholls. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2009.
Mansbach, Steven A. Modern Art in Eastern Europe: From the Baltic to the Balkans, ca. 1890-1939. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Between Worlds: A Sourcebook of Central European Avant-Gardes, 1910-1930. Edited by Timothy O. Benson and Éva Forgács. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2002.
Central European Avant-gardes: Exchange and Transformation, 1910-1930. Edited by and curated by Timothy O. Benson. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2002. Exhib.cat.
Howard, Jeremy. East European Art 1650-1950. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.
The Eastern Dada Orbit: Russia, Georgia, Ukraine, Central Europe and Japan (Crisis and the Arts). Edited by Stephen C. Foster and Toshiharu Omuka. Boston, MA: G.K.Hall, 1998.
After the Wall: Art and Culture in post-Communist Europe. Edited by Bojana Pejić. Stockholm: Moderna Museet, 1999.
Doing Culture under State-Socialism: Actors, Events, and Interconnections. Edited by Beata Hock. Leipzig: Leipziger Universitätsverlag, 4(24), 2014.
Writing Central European Art History: PATTERNS Travelling Lecture Set 2008/2009. Vienna: Erste Foundation,4, 2008.
The ‘Third Text’ Reader on Art, Culture and Theory. Edited by Rasheed Araeen et al. London: Continuum, 2002.
Lahoda, Vojtěch, ed. Local Strategies, International Ambitions: Modern Art and Central Europe 1918-1968. Prague: Artefactum, 2006. Papers from the international conference, Prague, 11-14 Jun 2003.
Art Beyond Borders: Artistic Exchange in Communist Europe 1945-1989. Edited by Jérôme Bazin, Pascal Dubourg Glatigny and Piotr Piotrowski. Budapest: CEU Press, 2016.
Hegyi, Dóra, Zsuza László, Emese Süvecz, and Ágnes Szanyi, eds. Art Always Has Its Consequences: Artists’ Texts from Croatia, Hungary, Poland, Serbia, 1947-2009. Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2011.
Primary documents: a sourcebook for Eastern and Central European art since the 1950s. Edited by Laura Hoptman and Tomáš Pospiszyl with the assistance of Majlena Braun and Clay Tarica; foreword by Ilya Kabakov. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2002.
Former West: Art and the Contemporary After 1989. Edited by Maria Hlavajova and Simon Sheikh. Cambridge, MA and London, England: MIT Press, 2016.
Art and Theory of Post-1989 Central and Eastern Europe: A Critical Anthology. Edited by Ana Janevski, Roxana Marcoci and Ksenia Nouril. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Durham: Duke University Press, 2018.
Kemp-Welch, Klara and Jonathan Owen. Minor Modernisms? A Reader in Central European Art and Culture 1918-1956. London: Courtauld Books Online, 2019.
Kemp-Welch, Klara. Antipolitics in Central European Art: Reticence as Dissidence under Post-Totalitarian Rule, 1956-1989. London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 2014.
Kemp-Welch, Klara. Networking the Bloc: Experimental Art in Eastern Europe 1965-1981. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2019.
2000+ Art East Collection. The Art of Eastern Europe. Edited by Zdenka Badovinac and Peter Weibel. Wien-Bozen: Folio Verlag, 2001.
East Art Map: Contemporary Art and Eastern Europe. Edited by Irwin [a group of five artists who make up the visual-arts component of the Slovenian art collective NSK based in Ljubljana]. London: Afterall Books, 2006.
Grammar of Freedom / Five Lessons: Works from the Arteast 2000+ Collection, Moderna galerija, Ljubljana. Edited by Ruth Addison, Kate Fowle, Snejana Krasteva. Moscow: Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, 2015. Exhib. cat.
Removed From the Crowd: Unexpected Encounters 1. Edited by Ivana Bago and Antonia Majača with Vesna Vuković. Zagreb: [BLOK] – local base for culture refreshment & DeLVe- Institute for Duration, Location and Variables, 2011. Contributions by Ivana Bago & Antonia Majača, Lucian Gomoll & Lissette Olivares, Aleksandra Jach, Miguel A. López, Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez, Edit Sasvári, Alina Serban, Mara Traumane, Vesna Vuković.
Ephemeral Fixed. Ephemeral art in Visegrad Countries – practice and theoretical reflection. Edited by Łukasz Guzek. Łódź: Art and Documentation Association, 2012. http://www.ephemeralfixed.eu.
COURAGE
“Cultural Opposition: Understanding the Cultural Heritage of Dissent in the Former Socialist Countries.” http://cultural-opposition.eu/.
The Handbook of COURAGE
http://cultural-opposition.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/COURAGE_Handbook_full-pdf.pdf.
Links:
Groh, Klaus ed. Aktuelle Kunst in Osteuropa. Cologne: DuMont-Schauberg, 1972. https://monoskop.org/images/d/dd/Groh_Klaus_Aktuelle_Kunst_in_Osteuropa.pdf
Middle Europe and Women Studies
Out from Under: Texts by Women Performance Artists. Edited by Lenora Champagne. New York: Theatre Communications Group, 1990.
Gender Check: Femininity and Masculinity in the Art of Eastern Europe. Edited by Bojana Pejić. Vienna: ERSTE Foundation, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Cologne: Walther Konig Verlag, 2009. Exhib. cat.
Gender Check, A Reader: Art and Theory in Eastern Europe. Edited by Bojana Pejić. Vienna: ERSTE Foundation, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, and Cologne: Buchhandlung Walther König, 2010.
„Analysis of the exhibition »Gender Check – Femininity and Masculinity in the Art of Eastern Europe,« Museum of Modern Art, (MUMOK), Vienna, November 2009/February 2010,“ by Marina Gržinić, 2009. http://grzinic-smid.si/?p=283.
Politics in a Glass Case: Feminism, Exhibition Cultures and Curatorial Transgressions. Edited by Angela Dimitrakaki and Lara Perry. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2015.
Working with Feminism: Curating and Exhibitions in Eastern Europe. Edited by Katrin Kivimaa. Tallinn: Tallinn University Press, 2012.
Global Studies and Middle Europe
Rogoff, Irit. Terra Infirma. Geography’s Visual Culture. New York: Routledge, 2000.
Bhabha, Homi K. The Location of Culture. New York: Routledge, 1994.
Globalization and the Decolonial Option. Edited by Walter D. Mignolo and Arturo Escobar. New York: Routledge, 2010.
Mercer, Kobena, ed. Cosmopolitan Modernisms. Cambridge MA: MIT Press, 2005.
Appadurai, Arjun. The Future as Cultural Fact: Essays on the Global Condition. London: Verso Books, 2012.
The Global Contemporary and the Rise of New Art Worlds. Karlsruhe/Cambridge MA: ZKM/MIT Press, 2012.
Is Art History Global. Edited by James Elkins. New York: Routledge, 2007.
Global Studies. Mapping Contemporary Art and Culture. Edited by Hans Belting et al. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2011.
Globalization and Contemporary Art. Edited by Jonathan Harris. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.
Global Art. Edited by Silvia von Benningsen et al. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2009.
Darian-Smith, Eve and Philip McCarty. The Global Turn: Theories, Research Designs, and Methods for Global Studies. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2017.
Circulations in the Global History of Art. Edited by Beatrice Joyeux-Prundel, Catherine Dossin, and Tomas Da Costa Kaufmann. Farnham, UK: Ashgate, 2015.
Belting, Hans and Andrea Buddensieg, eds. The Global Art World. Audiences, Markets, and Museums. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2009.
Weibel, Peter and Andrea Buddensieg, eds. Contemporary Art and the Museum. A Global Perspective. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2007.
World Art Studies: Exploring Concepts and Approaches. Edited by Kitty Zijlmans and Wilfried van Damme. Amsterdam: Valiz: 2008.
Compression vs. Expression. Containing and Explaining the World’s Art. Edited by John Onians. Williamstown MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 2006.
Kaufman, Thomas DaCosta and Elizabeth Pilliod, eds. Time and Place. The Geohistory of Art. Hants: Ashgate, 2005.
Kaufman, Thomas DaCosta. Toward a Geography of Art. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004.
Wolff, Larry. Inventing Eastern Europe: The Map of Civilization on the Mind of the Enlightenment. Stanford, CA; Stanford University Press, 1994.
Forgács, Éva. “How the New Left Invented East-European Art.” Centropa, 3(2) (2003): 93-104.
Doing Culture under State-Socialism: Actors, Events, and Interconnections. Edited by Beáta Hock. Leipzig: Leipziger Universitätsverlag 4(24), 2014.
Gabriele Detterer, Maurizio Nannucci. Artist-run spaces: nonprofit collective organizations in the 1960s and 1970s. Zurich: JRP/Ringier, 2012.
Globalizing East European Art Histories; Past and Present. Edited by Beáta Hock and Anu Allas. New York: Routledge, 2018. In memory of Piotr Piotrowski. Post conference book.
Middle Europe and Regional/National Studies
Pospiszyl, Tomas. An associative art history. Comparative studies of neo-avant-gardes in a bipolar world. Zürich: JRP Ringier Kunstverlag, 2018.
Global Conceptualism: Points of Origins, 1950-1980s. Edited by Luis Camnitzer, Jane Farver, and Rachel Weiss. New York: Queens Museum of Art, 1999.
“Conceptual Art and East Europe.” Part I and Part II, e-flux journal no. 40 (12/2012) and no. 41 (1/2013). http://www.e-flux.com/journal/conceptual-art-and-eastern-europe-part-i; http://www.e-flux.com/journal/conceptual-art-and-eastern-europe-part-ii.
Fluxus East. Fluxus-Netzwerke in Mitteleuropa / Fluxus Network in Central Eastern Europe. Berlin: Künstlerhaus Bethanien GmbH, 2007. Exhib.cat.
Apor, Balázs, Péter Apor, E. A Rees. The sovietization of Eastern Europe: new perspectives on the postwar period. Washington, DC: New Academia Pub., 2008.
Milovac, Tihomir. Ein Paar linker Schuhe: reality Check in Osteuropa = A pair of left shoes: reality check in East Europe. Bochum: Kunstmuseum Bochum; Zagreb: Muzej suvremene umjetnosti, 2009.
Macel, Christine, Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez, Micha Schischke. Promises of the past a discontinuous history of art in former Eastern Europe. Paris: Centre Pompidou; Zurich: JRP/Ringier, 2010.
Adler, Phoebe, Duncan McCorquodale. Contemporary art in Eastern Europe. London: Black Dog Publishing, 2010.
CZ
Filipová, Marta. Modernity, history, and politics in Czech art. New York: Routledge, 2019.
Buddeus, Hana, Katarína Mašterová, Vojtěch Lahoda, eds. Instant presence: representing art in photography. Prague: Artefactum, Institute of Art History of the Czech Academy of Sciences, 2017.
Sýkorová, Lenka. Together at last: Czech independent gallery scene 1990–2011. Ústí nad Labem: Fakulta umění a designu Univerzity Jana Evangelisty Purkyně v Ústí nad Labem, 2011.
Behind the velvet curtain. Prague: Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design, 2009.
Derek Sayer. Prague, Capital of the Twentieth Century. A Surrealist History. Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 2013.
Jiří Ševčík, ed. České umění 1938–1989 programy, kritické texty, dokumenty. Prague: Academia, 2001.
Czech contemporary art guide. (Lucie Drdová; Edith Jeřábková; Pavlína Morganová; Silvie Šeborová). Prague, Arts and Theatre Institute, 2012.
Morganova, Pavlína. Czech Action Art: Happenings, Actions, Events, Land Art, Body Art and Performance Art Behind the Iron Curtain. Praha: Karolinum Press, 2014.
Morganova, Pavlína and Dan Morgan. A Walk Through Prague. Actions, Performances, Happenings 1949-1989. Praha: Akademie výtvarných umění v Praze, VVP AVU Research Center, 2017.
Morganová, Pavlína. Akční umění / Action Art. Olomouc: Votobia, 1999.
Vladimír Ambroz, Akce / Actions. Edited by Tomáš Pospiszyl. Texys by Tomáš Pospiszyl, Pavel Büchler, Magdalena Wells, Lawrence Wells. Prague: BiggBoss books, 2017.
Havránek, Vít, ed. Jiří Kovanda, 2005−1976. Actions and Installations. Zürich: tranzit & JRP Ringier, 2006.
Vladimir Havlik. Soft Spirit (1977-2006). Edited by Radek Horáček. Brno: Dům umĕni mĕsta Brna, 2006.
Musilová, Helena. Jiří Valoch – Curator Theoretician Collector. Praha: Národní galerie v Praze, 2018.
Fremlová, Vendula, Jakub Čermák. The dimension of theatricality: Emil Filla Gallery in Ústí nad Labem: 29.11.2012 – 23.1.2013. Ústí nad Labem: Fakulta umění a designu Univerzity Jana Evangelisty Purkyně: Lidé výtvarnému umění – výtvarné umění lidem, 2012.
Contemporary collection: Czech art in the ’90s: Dům U zlatého prstenu … 1998-2000. Prague: Galerie hlavního města Prahy, 1998.
Vlček, Tomáš, ed. Modern and contemporary Czech art, 1890-2010: catalogue of the permanent exhibition of the Collection of modern and contemporary art and the Collection of 19th century art of the National Gallery in Prague. Prague: National Gallery, 2010.
The Sešit Reader / The First Ten Years of »Notebook for Art, Theory and Related Zones« 2007–2017. Edited by Pavlína Morganová, Dagmar Dušková Svatošová, Václav Magid, Terezie Nekvindová, Anežka Bartlová. Introductory texts by Václav Magid, Viktor Misiano, Sven Spieker. Prague: AVU Research Center – VVP AVU, Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, 2019.
Aktual Schmuck, Czechoslovakia, ed. Milan Knížák. Cullompton, UK: Beau Geste, 1974.
Czech performers (articles)
Lenka Klodová:
Kotik, Charlotta. „Post-Totalitarian Art: Eastern and Central Europe.“ In Global Feminisms, New Directions in Contemporary Art, 157–159. New York: Brooklyn Museum, Merrell Publishers Limited, 2007.
Pachmanová, Martina. „Fading Female Beauty and the Limits of Institutionalised Art Criticism, Lenka Klodová interviewed by Martina Pachmanová.“ Praesens 2 (2005): 5–11. Rhoads, Bonita, Vadim Erent. „An Aesthete´s Lost War: Lyotard and the Un-Sublime Art of New Europe.“ In Louis Armand, ed. Avant-Post. The Avant-Garde under “Post-” Conditions, 109–113. Syracuse: Litteraria Pragensia, 2006.
Deepwell, Katy, ed. Feminist Art Activism and Artivism. Amsterdam: Valiz, 2020. [p.302–315].
Kutis, Barbara. Artists-Parents in Contemporary Art. New York: Routledge, 2020. [p.115–153].
Kukurová, Lenka. “Lenka Klodová” [an interview]. Flash Art no. 50 (2019): 24-28.
Darina Alster:
https://fotografmagazine.cz/en/magazine/body/profiles/darina-alster/.
https://revistaarta.ro/en/performing-new-sincerity-in-the-czech-republic/.
http://wiez.com.pl/2020/09/05/modlitwa-zamiast-profanacji-performance-dariny-alster/.
Kateřina Olivová:
David Helán:
http://www.startpointprize.eu/2010/node/883.
Jiří Surůvka:
http://www.futuraprague.com/uploads/5/f6241e8ce8d07a8809a5f1c7d82c4b6e.pdf (book to download).
Katarína Rusnáková, Katarína. Ilona Németh, Jiří Surůvka: Invitation for a visit: la Biennale di Venezia, 49. Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte. Bratislava: Slovenská národná galéria, 2001.
Tomáš Ruller:
Factum I. – Mezinárodní festival akčního umění. Yvonne Austen, Service Janssen, Monica Klingler, Marian Palla, Tomas Ruller, Milos Sejn. Praha: Národní Galerie v Praze, 1992.
Miloš Šejn:
https://issuu.com/nvbes/docs/sein_archivy_kniha/121 (book to download).
František Kowolowski:
Žáčková, Markéta, ed. František Kowolowski / 2000–2011 /. Ostrava: Galerie výtvarného umění v Ostravě, 2012.
Kateřina Šedá:
Šedá, Kateřina, Yvona Ferencová, eds. Povolání: ŠEDÁ. Ostrava: GVUO v Ostravě and Kateřina Šedá, 2019.
Fetzer, Fanni, ed. Kateřina Šedá. Zürich: JRP Ringier, 2012.
Kateřina Šedá *1977. Zürich: Tranzit and JRP Ringier, 2007.
Martin Zet:
Zet, Martin. The Suicide of the Image. Prague, Divus, 2003.
Zet, Martin. Saluto Románo. Prague, Divus, 2008.
Zet, Martin. Performance for Myself. Galerie Eskort, 2013.
Zet, Martin. Obituary, Brno, Turistické informační centrum města Brna, 2015.
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Pospiszyl, Tomáš, David Černý. David Černý: the fucking years : a true story (the life and work of an artist). Prague: Divus, [2000?].
Lubo Kristek: genius loci cobwebbed. Lubo Kristek; Sonia Fischer; Ludvík Kundera; Vlastimil Mrva; Hartfrid Neunzert. Brno: RICA, 2019.
Mutually. Communities of the 1970s and 1980s. 22.3.–2.6. 2013 tranzitdisplay, Prague + 27.3.–19.5.2013 Dům umění města Brna / Curators Barbora Klímová, Daniel Grůň, Filip Cenek. Praha–Brno 2013.
Knížák, Milan. Actions for which at least some documentation remains, 1962–1995. Prague: Gallery, 2000.
Jan Mlčoch – Free Dormitory 28.5. – 10.6.1980. [Text] Between isolation and agression by Helena Kontova. Appel, Amsterdam, 1980.
Kovanda, Jiří. Jiří Kovanda actions and installations. 2005–1976 Zurich, Tranzit, 2006.
Milan Kohout–Věčný performer. Prague: Petr Štengl, 2020.
Vašulka, Woody. Mystery of memory. Brno: Muzeum města Brna, 2016.
Distant voices: Milena Dopitová … [et al.].: contemporary art from the Czech Republic / selected by Susan Copping. London: South London Gallery, 1994.
SK
Bálványos, Anna and Johanna Bárd, eds. Naturally. Nature and Art in Central Europe. Budapest: Ernst Múuzeum, 1994. Text about Slovak section by Mária Orišková. Exhib. cat.
Bátorová, Andrea. The Art of Contestation: Performative Practices in the 1960s and 1970s in Slovakia. Bratislava: Comenius University, 2019.
Bátorová, Andrea. Aktionskunst in der Slowakei in den 1960er Jahren: Aktionen von Alex Mlynárčik. Berlin: LIT Verlag, 2009.
Bátorová, Andrea. “Alternative Trends in Slovakia during the 1960s and Parallels to Fluxus.” In Fluxus East: Fluxus Networks in Central Eastern Europe. Berlin: Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, 2007. Catalogue text.
Beskid, Vladimír, ed. Miękkie kody. Tendencje konceptualne w sztuce słowackiej / Soft Codes: Conceptual Tendencies in Slovak Art. Wrocław: Muzeum Współczesne Wrocław, 2015. Exhib. cat.
Büngerová, Vladimíra and Lucia Gregorová, eds. Jana Želibská, No touching. Bratislava: Slovenská národná galéria, 2012.
Čarná, Daniela. Z mesta von / Out of the City. Bratislava: Galéria mesta Bratislavy, 2007.
Čarná, Daniela and Lucia Gregorová. Mapy/Maps. Art Cartography in the Centre of Europe 1960-2011. Bratislava: Galéria mesta Bratislavy, Slovenská národná galéria, 2011. Exhib. cat.
Čarná, Daniela. Michal Kern. Bratislava: Galéria mesta Bratislavy, 2011.
Geržová, Jana. Otis Laubert. An Ascetic without Limitation. Bratislava: Kruh súčasného umenia Profil, 2001.
Gregor, Richard, ed. BAC. Bratislava Conceptualism 1963-1993. Bratislava: Kunsthalle Bratislava, and Liptovský Mikuláš: Liptovská galéria Petra Michala Bohúňa, 2021.
Grúň, Daniel. Július Koller. Galéria Ganku. Wien: Schlebrügge Editor, 2014.
Grúň, Daniel, Kathrin Rhomberg and Georg Schöllhammer, eds. One Man Anti Show Dokumentation. Wien: Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Köln: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walter König, 2016.
Grúň, Daniel, Henri Meyric Hughes and Jean-Marc Poinsot. Tomáš Štrauss. Beyond the Great Divide – Essays on European Avant-Gardes from East to West. AICA Press, 2020.
Grúň, Daniel. AMA. Ľubomír Ďurček, Květoslava Fulierová, Július Koller and Amateur Artists. Schlebrügge Editor, 2020.
Grúň, Daniel, ed. Subjective Histories. Self-historicisation as Artistic Practice in Central-East Europe. Bratislava: VEDA, Publishing House of the Slovak Academy of Science, 2020. In Slovak and English.
Grúň, Daniel, Christian Höller and Kathrin Rhomberg, eds. White Space in White Space / Biely priestor v bielom priestore, 1973-1982. Stano Filko, Miloš Laky, Ján Zavarský. Vienna: Schlebrügge Editor, 2021. Project archive.
Hanáková, Petra and Aurel Hrabušický, eds. Július Koller. Science-Fiction Retrospective. Bratislava: Slovenská národná galéria, 2010.
Hlaváčková, Jitka and Miloš Vojtěchovský, eds. Zvuky, kódy, obrazy. Akustický experiment ve vizuálním umění / Sounds, Codes, Images. Prague: ArtMap, 2021.
Karpiscak, Lee. Dreams intersect Reality. Slovak Visual Artists in their Own Words. Bratislava: Galéria města Bratislavy, 2007.
Keratová, Mira, ed. Ľubomír Ďurček. Situational Models of Communication. Bratislava: Slovenská národná galéria, 2013.
Mojžiš, Juraj. Jozef Jankovič. Flow of time. Bratislava: Art bid, 2016.
Murin, Michal. “Performance Art in Slovakia in the 90s (From the Position of the Art-Form, through its Reflection to the (Co-Existence of Solitary Worlds).” Slaps Banks Plots 4 (2000).
Musilová, Helena, ed. Rudolf Sikora. Against Myself. Praha: Národní galerie, Bratislava: Slovenská národná galéria, 2006.
Rusinová, Zora, ed. Umenie akcie / Action Art 1965-1989. Bratislava: Slovenská Národná Galéria, 2001. Texts by Zora Rusinová, Gábor Hushegyi, Radislav Matuštík, Tomáš Štrauss, and Ivo Janoušek.
Rusinová, Zora. “Solidarity Born of Despair: Action Art in Slovakia during the Totalitarian Regime, 1970-1989.” Centropa 14:1 (Jan 2014). Exhib. cat.
Strauss, Thomas. “Three Slovak Models for Contemporary Art Actions.” Cross Currents 3 (1984): 405-413.
Transart Communication. 7th International Contemporary Art Festival – 8th International Contemporary Art Festival 1995-1996, ed. Jozsef R. Juhász. Nové Zámky, 1997. CD-ROM. Exhib. cat.
H
ARTPOOL – The Experimental Art Archive of East-Central Europe: History of an active archive for producing, networking, curating, and researching art since 1970. Edited by György Galántai and Julia Klaniczay. Budapest: Artpool Art Research Center, 2013.
Hungarian Art of the Eighties. Budapest: Ernst Museum, 1994. Exhib. cat.
Kürti, Emese. Screaming Hole: Poetry, Sound and Action as Intermedia Practice in the Work of Katalin Ladik. Budapest: acb ResearchLab, acb Gallery, 2017.
Bieleszová, Štěpánka, Ladislav Daněk, Katalin Keserü, Balázs Szluka, Zsofila Folk. Scene of the action: Hungarian performing art from the collections of Balázs Szluka and Olomouc Museum of Art = Helyszínelés: Pécsi Műhely: magyar akcióművészet Szluka Balázs és az Olomouc Művészeti Múzeum gyűjteményeiből. Olomouc: Muzeum umění Olomouc, 2019.
R
Pintilie, Ileana. Actionism in Romania During the Communist Era. Cluj: Idea, 2002.
Pintilie, Ileana. “Actionism in Romania in the 6th and 7th Decades.” Balkon 2, Cluj, 2000.
Pintilie, Ileana. “Actionism in Romania in the 8th Decade.” Balkon 3, Cluj, 2000.
Pintilie, Ileana. “Performance art in Romania in the ’90s.” Artcontext, Apr 2001.
Pintilie, Ileana. “Action Art in Romania Before and After 1989.” Centropa 14:1, Jan 2014.
Sandquist, Tom. Dada East: The Romanians of Cabaret Voltaire. Cambridge, MA: and London: MIT Press, 2006.
PL
Permafo 1970-1981, ed. Anna Markowska. Wrocław: Wrocław Contemporary Museum and Motto Books, 2013.
The Recent Art Gallery. The Avant-Garde Did Not Applaud, Part 1, ed. by Anna Markowska. Wrocław: Wrocław Contemporary Museum, 2014.
Romuald Kutera. The Avant-Garde Did Not Applaud, Part 2, ed. by Anna Markowska. Wrocław: Wrocław Contemporary Museum, 2014.
Beyond Corrupted Eye. Akumulatory 2 Gallery, 1972–1990. Edited by Bożena Czubak, Jarosław Kozłowski. Warszawa: Zachęta National Gallery, 2012.
Refleksja konceptualna w sztuce polskiej: doświadczenia dyskursu, 1965-1975 / Conceptual Reflection in Polish Art: Experiences of Discourse: 1965-1975, eds. Paweł Polit and Piotr Woźniakiewicz. Warszawa: Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, 2000. Exhib. cat.
Głuchowska, Lidia. “Station Warsaw. Malevich, Lissitzky and the Traces of Central Transfer between East and West.” Centropa. A Journal of Central European Architecture and Related Arts no. 3, vol. 13 (Sept. 2013): 241-257.
Bryzgel, Amy. “Games Played by Different Rules: Performance Art in Poland, 1970-2000.” Centropa 14:1 (Jan 2014): 8-22.
Patrick, Martin. “Polish Conceptualism of the 1960s and 1970s: Images, Objects, Systems and Texts.” Third Text 96: “Socialist Eastern Europe” (Spring 2001): 25-45.
U
Mudrak, Myroslava M. The New Generation and Artistic Modernism in the Ukraine. Ann Arbor: UMI Press, 1986.
RU
Total Enlightenement. Conceptual Art in Moscow, 1960-1990. Edited by Boris Groys et al. Frankfurt/ Ostfildern: Kunsthalle/ Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2008.
Anti-shows. Aptart 1982-84. Edited by Margarita Tupitsyn, Victor Tupitsyn et al. London: Afterall, 2017.
Ross, David A., ed. Between Spring and Summer: Soviet Conceptual Art in the Era of Late Communism. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1990.
Chernetsky, Vitaly. “Review of Between Spring and Summer: Soviet Conceptual Art in the Era of Late Communism, edited by David A. Ross.” Slavic Review 1 (1994): 301-303.
Rozwadowska-Janowska, Nina, Peter Nowicki, Peter and Larisa Kashuk, eds. Furmanny Zaulek=Furmanny Lane. Warszawa: Fundacja Polskiej Sztuki Nowoczesnej / Polish Modern Art Foundation, 1989. Catalog of an exhibition held at Dawne Zaklady Norblina, Nov. 1989. In Polish and English.
Tupitsyn, Margarita and Viktor Tupitsyn. “The Studios on Furmanny Lane in Moscow.” Flash Art Inernational 123 (1985): 56.
Jackson, Mattew Jesse. The Experimental Group: Ilya Kabakov, Moscow Conceptualism, Soviet Avant-Gardes. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010.
Handy, Ellen. “Komar and Melamid: ‘Sots Art’.” Arts Magazine 57 (1982): 32.
Gambrell, Jamey. “Report from Moscow. The Post-Bulldozer Generations. Art in America (May 1995): 51-59.
Romanova, Elena and Elena Selina, eds. Topografiya. Moscow: L Galereya, 1991.
Osmolovsky, Anatoly, ed. Antifashizm and anti-antifashizm. Moscow: n.d. 1996.
Post YU
Badovinac, Zdenka, Eda Čufer and Anthony Gardner, eds. NSK from Kapital to Capital: Neue Slovenische Kunst – An Event in the Final Decade of Yugoslavia. Ljubljana: Moderna Galeria, 2015.
Đurić, Dubravka and Miško Šuvaković, eds. Impossible Histories: Historic Avant-Gardes, Neo-Avant-Gardes, and Post-Avant-Gardes in Yugoslavia, 1918-1991. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2003.
Todorova, Maria. Imagining the Balkans. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2009.
Middle Europe and Performance Studies
Body and the East: From the 1960s to the Present. Edited by Zdenka Badovinać. Ljubljana: Moderna Galerija (Museum of Contemporary Art), 1998. Exhib. cat.
Bryzgel, Amy. Performance Art in Eastern Europe Since 1960. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2017.
Bryzgel, Amy. Performing the East: Performance Art in Russia, Latvia and Poland since 1980. London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 2013.
Performance in the Second Public Sphere. Edited by Adam Czirak and Katalin Cseh-Varga. New York: Routledge, 2018.
Esanu, Octavian. Transitions in Post-Soviet Art: Collective Actions Groups Before and After 1989. Budapest and New York: Central European University Press, 2013.
Performance by Artists. Edited by A.A. Bronson and Peggy Gale. Toronto: Art Metropole, 1979.
Middle Europe and Global Performance
Art Action 1958-1998, ed. Richard Martel. Québec City: Le Lieu, Edition Intervention, 2001.
Goldberg, RoseLee. Performance art: From Futurism to the Present. 3rd edition. London: Thames & Hudson. 2011.
Printed matter
Parastamp. Four Decades of Artistamps, from Fluxus to the Internet (with essays by Peter Frank, Kata Bodor, interview with György Galántai). Budapest: Museum of Fine Arts, 2007. Exhib. cat.
Cutarorialship
Curating ‘EASTERN EUROPE’ and Beyond: Art Histories through the Exhibition. Edited by Maria Oriskova. Frankfurt: Peter Lang AG, 2014.
Badovinac, Zdenka. Comradeship: Curating, Art, and Politics in Post-Socialist Europe: Perspectives in Curating Series. New York: Independent Curators International (ICI), 2019.
Compiled by Łukasz Guzek, Jana Orlova, Kata Balazs, Daniela Čarná
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