Guest editor Dr. Reuben Fowkes

Contributors:
Piotr Piotrowski, Misko Suvakovic, Gerald Raunig, Bettina Jungen, Ulrike Goeschen, Lara Weibgen, Edit Andras, Marian Mazzone, Andrzej Szczerski and Hedvig Turai

This special issue of Third Text includes essays by leading theoreticians dealing with the problematic of how to rewrite the art history of Europe after the Cold War to take into account the multiple histories of the countries of Eastern Europe.

It also highlights the work of a new generation of scholars whose approach to European art history is comparative, pluralistic and goes beyond the binary oppositions that has structured much thinking about Modernism, Socialist Realism, and Conceptual Art.

The thematic areas covered range from the modalities of Socialist Realism under Stalin, the achievements of the Post Avant Garde in Hungary, Poland and Czechoslovakia, to public attitudes to the socialist past and recent reflections on the cultural legacy of East European socialism in contemporary art.