Farewell to a Myth. On Close Relationships between Modernism and Totalitarianism
Journal: edoc Publication server (Humboldt University of Berlin)
Year: 2014

Regardless of changing historical situation in particular countries of the Eastern bloc modernism is usually referred to as a distinct artistic choice implying moral and political protest against totalitarian Stalinist power in favor of the cultural and democratic values of the West. Such a myth of modernism as a tool of resistance has shaped the worldview and intellectual perspective of many artists, art historians and critics from Central and Eastern Europe and can be found even in those studi