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Socially engaged art of Central and Eastern Europeand "Vision for a new culture and its place"New forms of critical art
Bytelová, Denisa ; Štefková, Zuzana (advisor) ; Zálešák, Jan (referee) ; Morganová, Pavlína (referee)
The paper's objective is to present a closer look at socially engaged art in Central and Eastern Europe. The author has attempted to describe the specific characteristics of the history of this type of art in the former Eastern Bloc countries since the second half of the 1990s and to find appropriate evaluation criteria. The paper also includes an analysis of the extensive conceptual project titled Vision for New Culture and Its Place, which the artist Sráč Sam has been developing since 1989. The aim of the paper was to identify the range of approaches of contemporary social practice in art. The text introduces the relevant terminology and also includes case studies. The author also described the historical predecessors of this practice in the various countries of Central and Eastern Europe, with a view to the different conditions in the West and in the former Eastern Bloc. The main part of the paper looks at works made after 1989. The final part describes the conceptual project Vision for New Culture and Its Place. Key words socially engaged art, countries of the former Eastern bloc

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