Salto Mortale
Politics and art in the new Eastern Europe

Osteuropa 5/2019
Klavdia Smola, Manfred Sapper, Volker Weichsel (Ed.)
Berlin 2019 [= Osteuropa, 5/2019]
160 pages, 63 figures
Price: 12,00 €
ISBN: 978-3-8305-3895-0

Deutsche Fassung

Contents

• Editorial
  The Politicization of the Formal
• Tat’jana Vorožejkina
  Autocracy or Perestroika 2.0
  Can Russia escape from its path dependence?
• Lena Jonson
  Subculture and the mainstream
  Art and politics in Russia, 1989–2019
• Maria Engström
  Cultural recycling
  Metamodern flows in Russia’s culture
• Klavdia Smola
  Alternatives instead of protest
  A pragmatic change of direction in the new Russian art
• Mark Lipovetsky
  Cynicism in place of postmodernism
  The story of a (calculated) misunderstanding
• Evgenij Kazakov
  Against the “degradation of the nation”
  The campaign against musicians in Russia’s regions
• Maciej Urbanowski
  With God and the nation against catastrophe
  “Right-wing” literature in Poland after 1989
• Matthias Schwartz
  A swamp called reality
  Patriotism and counter-culture in Polish hip-hop