Heroic Art and Socialist Realism. Monuments, Memory, and Representations of the Socialist Past after 1989, Сборник, Cultural Arcs Foundation, 2022

Heroic Art and Socialist Realism. Monuments, Memory, and Representations of the Socialist Past after 1989

Автор: Сборник
Раздел: Българска съвременна история, Българска културология, етнология и фолклор, Изкуство - други
Издателство: Cultural Arcs Foundation
Народност: българска
ISBN: 9786197420036
първо издание, 2022 год.
меки корици, 300 стр.
Цена: 26,00 лв

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Focused on the complex and intriguing topic of the monumental heritage of the socialist period in Eastern Europe, the book addresses a wide range of issues related to heroes, monuments, and memory before and after 1989. Its twelve studies touch upon different aspects of monuments and heroic art from the socialist period in Eastern Europe - the ideological and artistic policies that have caused their appearance, the impact that they laid upon public space and everyday life, and the changing approaches of their remembrance after 1989.

Published as a result of the international project "Heroes We Love. Ideology, Identity and Socialist Art in New Europe" (with support from "Creative Europe" Program of the European Commission), the book presents the research of scholars and art practitioners working on topics related to socialism and post-socialism in Eastern Europe. With its broad scope, examples from several countries, and in-depth analyses of memory processes after 1989, the book will no doubt draw the attention of all readers interested in the conflicting interpretations of the socialist era heritage.

Nikolai Vukov, Ph.D., is Associate Professor at the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Studies with Ethnographic Museum Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, and lecturer of social and cultural anthropology at the Universities of Sofia and Plovdiv. He is author of the book Kinship Relationships in Bulgarian Heroic Epics (2018), co-author of several monographs and edited volumes, and has published numerous studies on monuments, commemorations, migration, and cultural heritage.

Svetla Kazalarska, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Studies with Ethnographic Museum Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. She is author of the book The Museum of Communism: Between Memory and History, Politics and the Market, published in Bulgarian in 2013, and of numerous articles in the fields of memory studies, critical museology, and post-socialist urban anthropology.