In the Shadow of Piotr Piotrowski: Small Histories for a Global Perspective
Journal: Critique d’art
Year: 2019

In 1991, the Slovak art historian and critic, Tomáš Štrauss, then living in exile in Germany, edited a book on art in East Europe, in which he and his fellow authors drew attention to the deep ignorance in which the ‘Western’ art world had remained, since the division of Europe after 1945, of the rich artistic legacy of East and South-East Europe. He pointed to the prevalent belief that socialist realism had outlived Stalin by more than a few years, and that cultural life throughout the Easte...