Introduction: Berlin's provincial avant-garde -- Part I: Democratizing art and transforming space in late Cold War Berlin -- "Culture for all" and experimental practice in divided Berlin -- The free scene and the island city -- Art, participation, and civic life in 1980s East Berlin -- 1989: a Berlin counterhistory -- Part II: Art vs. capital in post-wall Berlin -- Protest art and place marketing in the "New Berlin" -- Artists in coalition in twenty-first-century Berlin -- Coda: Berlin social sculpture
Summary:
"First book to examine influential 1970s-1980s Berlin, a time of radical experimentation uniting art, urban politics, and everyday life that yielded enduring transformations in civic life"-- Provided by publisher.
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