Review of Ana Janevski et al, editors. Art and Theory of Post-1989 Central and Eastern Europe: A Critical Anthology.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This richly illustrated critical anthology is a part of a series of documentary anthologies that was initiated by the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in 2002.It is the ninth volume in the series, and it addresses contemporary art practices and critical theory, focusing on Eastern and Central Europe.This book is a compilation of critical primary texts supported with secondary sources and includes newly commissioned interviews with artists, cultural activists, and philosophers and case-study exhibitions, curatorial statements, critical debates, and more, originally written in over a dozen languages and previously published in exhibition catalogues, journals, magazines, and elsewhere.The geographical region covered in this ambitious anthology stretches from the former East Germany to Romania, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Poland, the Baltic counties, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Ukraine, and parts of Russia.The main purpose of this work is to explore how after 1989, the year of the fall of the Berlin Wall-the event that symbolizes the end of the socialist regimes in Eastern and Central Europe-the new geopolitical realities and the historical experience of socialism were reassessed and how they were reflected through the arts and art activism.The volume consists of seven chapters incorporating seventy-five primary and secondary sources.Each chapter features an introductory essay written by an invited scholar that furnishes a theoretical background.One will also find in every chapter a summary of critical texts; these summaries have been penned by different members of the Central and Eastern European section of C-MAP (MoMA's Contemporary and Modern Art Perspectives, a global program centred on art histories other than those of the United States and Western Europe).In addition, every chapter includes an interview with an artist or group of artists conducted by another C-MAP member.As the editors claim, most of the author-contributors in this volume "share the desire to contest the ecumenical version of Western modernity.In reclaiming their own histories, they offer new perspectives that underscore the significance of the socialist legacy (in particular ideas of collectivity and solidarity) as an intellectual and moral force in both local and global contexts" (12).Chapter 1, titled "Reckoning with History" (16-63), explores the complexity of the term Eastern Europe and looks at the difference between Eastern European socialism and Soviet-style socialism.The critical texts focus on diverse types of engagement with history from the position of curators, artists, and art historians.They respond to an inquiry as to how the concepts of East and West "have inflected the evolving historiography as well
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".