Gender check : femininity and masculinity in the art of Eastern Europe / published [i.e. edited] by Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Bojana Pejic ; [translations, Eva-Raphaela Jaksch ... [et al.] ; texts, Edit Andrâas ... [et al.]]
"This catalog has been published on the occasion of the exhibition 'Gender Check. Femininity and Masculinity in the Art of Eastern Europe' at the Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien (November 13, 2009-February 14, 2010) and Zacheta National Gallery of Art (March 19-June 13, 2010)"--P. opp. t.p. Issued also in German. Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Forging links / Boris Marte -- Gender matters / Christine Bèohler -- Proletarians of all countries, who washes your socks? Equality, dominance and difference in Eastern European art / Bojana Pejiâc -- In the trap of utopia's sublime : between ideology and subversion / Keti Chukhrov -- The ambivalent beauty / Izabela Kowalczyk -- Suffragettes, easy lays and women faking pregnancy : representation of women in the film When I am pale and dead / Branislav Dimitrijeviâc -- Private bodies or politicized gestures? Female nude imagery in Soviet art / Katrin Kivimaa -- Do I dream freely or on command? Imagined masculinity in socialist Hungary / Eidt Andrâas -- Discourse of the self : self-portraint on the milieu of gender visuals / Zora Rusinovâa -- Greetings from the netherworld : a photograph from Yerevan, 1988 / Hedwig Saxenhuber -- "Was ist Kunst, Marinela Koézelj?" (1976) / Georg Schèolhammer -- The "silkworm cocoon" : gender difference and the impact of visual culture on contemporary art in the Balkans / Suzana Milevska -- Gender after the wall / Piotr Piotrowski -- In? Out? In between? Some notes on the invisibility of a nascent Eastern European feminist and gender discourse in contemporary art theory / Martina Pachmanovâa.
Summary:
'Gender Check' is the first comprehensive exhibition featuring art from Eastern Europe since the 1960s based on the theme of gender roles. 20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the curator Bojana Pejic, along with a team of experts from 24 different countries, has put together a selection of over 400 works including paintings, sculpture, installations, photography, posters, films and videos. With over 200 artists, the exhibition paints an exceptionally diverse picture of a chapter in art history that until recently had been largely unknown and that could also act as an important addition to contemporary gender discourse.
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