TY - JOUR

T1 - Suspending the Post-Communist Condition

T2 - The Generational Break and its Peculiarities

AU - Gerhardt, Ulrike

PY - 2016/3

Y1 - 2016/3

N2 - While 'the post-communist condition' is linked to a generation that grew up east of the Iron Curtain, the younger generation, born in the 1980s, is confronted with an increasingly fading memory of the socialist past and with socialism as a devalued political philosophy across Europe. The crucial experience of this group of people is not socialism; it is the post-socialist transition, the post-Cold War era which has left a deep mark in their lives. Analyzing time and language as two peculiar motives in post-socialist discourses and artistic practices, this paper traces the gradual suspension of 'the post-communist condition' in favor of a less biased and 'vertical' reading of contemporary post-socialist art.

AB - While 'the post-communist condition' is linked to a generation that grew up east of the Iron Curtain, the younger generation, born in the 1980s, is confronted with an increasingly fading memory of the socialist past and with socialism as a devalued political philosophy across Europe. The crucial experience of this group of people is not socialism; it is the post-socialist transition, the post-Cold War era which has left a deep mark in their lives. Analyzing time and language as two peculiar motives in post-socialist discourses and artistic practices, this paper traces the gradual suspension of 'the post-communist condition' in favor of a less biased and 'vertical' reading of contemporary post-socialist art.

KW - Science of art

UR - https://ex-embassy.com/de/archive/

M3 - Journal articles

VL - 12

SP - 239

EP - 249

JO - The Journal of Modern Art History Department, Belgrade: University Belgrade

JF - The Journal of Modern Art History Department, Belgrade: University Belgrade

SN - 2217-3951

ER -