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PUBLICATIONS
2007
Revolution is not a Garden Party Edited by Maja and Reuben Fowkes Published by Manchester Metropolitan University ISBN 978 1 905476 12 1 Exhibition publication that includes interviews with the artists and new essays by Gerald Raunig, Benda Hofmeyr, Simon Sheikh, Chus Martinez and Maja and Reuben Fowkes that engage with issues such as art and revolution, aesthetics and politics, and ecology and anarchism...(more)
SocialEast Seminar on Art and Documentary Audio published on ArtMargins The “Art and Documentary” seminar coincided with the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Hungarian Revolution in Budapest, and covered issues such as the role of contemporary art in commemorating historical events from the socialist period; revolutions and counter-revolutions; the history and treatment of public monuments in Eastern Europe; relics of Socialism in contemporary visual culture, and the use of photographic and film archives in visual research.
2008
Revolution I Love You: 1968 in Art Politics and Philosophy Edited by Maja and Reuben Fowkes Published by Manchester Metropolitan University ISBN 978 1 905476 34 3 The exhibition publication considers the interconnection of art, politics and philosophy in 1968 across a divided Europe. It is a mosaic of interviews, statements and essays by prominent theorists, historians, curators, cultural workers and artists that shows the multipolar and interrelated experience of that extraordinary year...(more)
SocialEast Seminar on Art and Revolution Transcripts published on ArtMargins The Seminar took as its primary focus the legacy of political, social and cultural revolutions for art and visual culture in Eastern Europe. This included discussion of the role of the historical avant-garde, the specific trajectory of Conceptual Art in Central Europe, and the re-evaluation of Socialist Realism as an art historical problem in the context of modernism, post-modernism and the polarised aesthetics of the Cold War.
2009
Socialist Eastern Europe: Special Issue of Third Text Issue 96 (January 2009) Guest editor: Reuben Fowkes 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.

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