Introduction: Born into Socialism (1)
1 "Negative-Hostile Attitudes": Artists Work their Stasi Files
(27)
2 The Body in Ruins: Photographs by Thomas Florschuetz and
Performances by the Auto-Perforation Artists (53)
3 The Taboo of the Ordinary, the Valor of the Misfit: Photographs
by Gundula Schulze Eldowy and Films by Cornelia Schleime (89)
4 Making a Scene: Films by Gino Hahnemann (121)
5 Types, Kinds, and Genres of Art: The Intermedia I Festival in
1985 (155)
6 The Collective Impossible: Erfurt's Women Artists Group (187)
7 DIY Public Sphere: A Counterdiscourse in the Publication Anschlag
and the Gallery Eigen+Art (215)
Coda: There is no East German Art without East Germany (247)
Acknowledgments (253)
Notes (257)
Bibliography (287)
Index (307)
Sara Blaylock is Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Minnesota Duluth.
“Blaylock’s account is thickly detailed and scrupulous in its
assessment of artistic strategies in the late GDR. Its own critical
agenda and scholarly rigour offer valuable pointers for further
assessments of Cold War culture.”
—Times Literary Supplement
"Rather then examining GDR art in light of styles and tendencies in
the West, which claimed the privilege to be the place where history
was made, Blaylock stresses the need to study non-Western art in
its own right, no longer a periphery and a somewhat pitiful belated
answer to Western trends and models, but an autonomous system with
its own logic and stakes. In that sense, taking the GDR as an
exemplary case study should help fight universalizing visions on
“world” culture. Parallel Public looks into completely different
directions, which will prove dramatically inspiring in the years to
come, now that the “one world” belief is also collapsing in the
turmoil of history."
—Leonardo
"Blaylock’s perspective allows the reader to discover that, in the
late years of not only GDR but in many Soviet republics, many
artists operated in the vast interstitial space between
State-sanctioned and alternative culture as official titles gave
the artists the means to practice art while unofficial culture
widened their perspective."
—Visual Studies
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