Promises of the past. A discontinuous history of art in former Eastern Europe

Twenty years after the Fall of the Berlin Wall, Promises of the Past questions the classical opposition between Eastern and Western Europe by reinterpreting the history of the former Communist block countries. Drawing a discontinuous history of art, this transnational and tmnsgenerational book features texts and works by more than fifty artists and critics from all over Europe. Gathering together newly commissioned essays, art documentation, artists' pages, unpublished documents and an anthology of historical texts by authors such as Slavoj Ziiek, the late Igor Zabel and Svetlana Boym, this volume is an invaluable survey of the Eastern European art scene of the last decades - a scene which is gradually shifting from the periphery to the centre of current art-historical debates.

Un panorama de la scène artistique d'Europe de l'Est (catalogue de l'exposition Les promesses du passé – Une histoire discontinue de l'art dans l'ex-Europe de l'Est au Centre Pompidou, Paris, d'avril à juillet 2010).