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The book is a result of a collaboration between AICA Poland, AICA 
Slovakia, AICA Czech Republic and AICA Hungary. It is a collection of 
dispersed visual art critique written after 1989, translated into 
English and this way made available for research for international 
scholars and art critics. In the contemporary art history of Central and 
Eastern Europe (after 1989), systematic research on art criticism is 
very rare and so are the books collecting dispersed texts written by art 
critics, and almost always they are published in their original 
language. If there are such books published, these are collections of 
texts by one author and mostly come from earlier periods – 1970s and 
80s. The Anthology attempts to “bridge the gap” between the CEE region 
and the rest of the world, as well as between the countries within the 
region.

The main introduction to the book is a transcription from a roundtable 
discussion on the specificity of art criticism in the CEE region. The 
book is divided into nine chapters: Art during the transition period / 
Gender and body / Feminism / Otherness and politics of identities / 
Institutional Critique / Political (Engaged) Art and Censorship / Art in 
public spaces / Critique of critique / Critique on art from before 1989.

The /Anthology/ helps to answer vital questions, such as: What role does 
1989 play in the critical discourse in CEE? What kind of exchange took 
place among critical writing and discourse across CEE? What does 
critical writing on art and culture have in common across CEE, and what 
are the (local, national) differences? How has critical writing 
after-1989 envisioned the position and place of CEE in the world? Have 
the dichotomies of the second half of the twentieth century (such as 
East vs West) continued shaping the conversations? Asking these 
questions is vital for the intellectual development of our region, its 
self-awareness, and the decolonization from the (so-called) Western culture.

While individual texts have their concrete foci (exhibition, event, 
cultural trend, etc.), collectively the selected texts articulate the 
critical post-1989 era in CEE through a unique perspective: namely, the 
structure of collective feeling. By focusing not on the commonplace 
history-writing as a progression of cultural and political events but on 
capturing human emotions in, with, and through art–the anthology will 
offer an alternative, unparalleled understanding of the development of 
young and still fragile democracies. Through capturing the affective 
infrastructure of this era, the book will show relations and connections 
among the scenes across CEE, as well as the pronunciations of the shared 
commitment to the hopeful futures.

/*Bridging the Gaps. An Anthology of Art Criticism in Central and 
Eastern Europe After 1989*/
*Editors: *Jana Geržová (Slovakia) Júliusz Huth (Hungary) Małgorzata 
Kaźmierzak (Poland) Kata Balázs-Miklós (Hungary) Vlasta Čiháková Noshiro 
(Czech Republic) Arkadiusz Półtorak (Poland) Magdalena Ujma (Poland). / 
*Academic editor:* Małgorzata Kaźmierczak / *Editorial assistant:* 
Mirosława Bałazy / *Transcription and pre-editing of the introduction:* 
Mirosława Bałazy / *Translation:* Kata Balázs-Miklós, John Minahane, 
Vlasta Noshirova, Arkadiusz Półtorak, Dániel Sipos, Monika Ujma / 
*Proofreading and linguistic editing:* Joanna Pottle / *Graphic design 
and typesetting:* Michał Bratko

The project is co-financed by AICA International and the Governments of 
Czechia, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia through Visegrád Grants from 
International Visegrád Fund. The mission of the fund is to advance ideas 
for sustainable regional cooperation in Central Europe.

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