Publication detail

An isolated archipelago or simply one of many islands?

ZÁLEŠÁK, J.

Original Title

An isolated archipelago or simply one of many islands?

Type

book chapter

Language

English

Original Abstract

During the first two decades of the transformation period not only Czech society as such but also Czech culture (represented in the essay through exhibitions and discourses of curating and art criticism) had to cope with the problem of identity situated on the East - West axis. The essay focuses on several examples of how curators and other cultural producers reflected on their achievements through the issues of identity, Westernalisation, (a)synchronicity or Otherness. Attention is given specifically to the activities of Jana and Jiří Ševčík's, Soros Center of Contemporary Art Prague, Display Gallery and tranzit Prague.

Keywords

transformation, identity, fine arts, curating, self-colonisation

Authors

ZÁLEŠÁK, J.

Released

1. 1. 2018

Publisher

Routledge

Location

Oxon; New York

ISBN

978-0-415-79159-5

Book

Understanding Central Europe

Edition

BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies

Edition number

1

Pages from

559

Pages to

566

Pages count

8

URL

https://www.routledge.com/Understanding-Central-Europe/Moskalewicz-Przybylski/p/book/9780415791595

BibTex

@inbook{BUT146132,
  author="Jan {Zálešák}",
  title="An isolated archipelago or simply one of many islands?",
  booktitle="Understanding Central Europe",
  year="2018",
  publisher="Routledge",
  address="Oxon; New York",
  series="BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies",
  edition="1",
  pages="559--566",
  isbn="978-0-415-79159-5",
  url="https://www.routledge.com/Understanding-Central-Europe/Moskalewicz-Przybylski/p/book/9780415791595"
}