- 21 November 2022
- Etichete Artele plastice în România 1945-1989.Cu o addenda 1990-2010 Magda Cârneci
Traducere în limba engleză: Alina Cârâc
“Twenty‑two years after this volume was
first published in Romanian and nine years after a second release, it occurred
to me to have it translated into English. My decision was prompted by the many
Romanian and foreign students, master’s students and doctoral candidates who
asked me, in the past few years, how to find a copy. I learned then that
photocopies of my already out‑of‑stock book circulated in various parts of Romania
and abroad.
In 2000, when it first came out, this disquisition
was one of the few available at home and abroad to deal with a rather delicate
topic – considering the recent escape from the communist ideological
straitjacket. A number of works on the visual culture of the period in point
have been released meanwhile in various languages of Eastern Europe, yet the
lingering dearth suggests that my study may have not lost its practicality. (…)
This book proposes a comprehensive tableau of fine arts in Romania between 1945 and 1989 from a vantage point that brings together the history of art as well as political science and sociology. It is neither a history of stylistic trends nor of artistic personalities hallmarking the period in question, as was customary with the various studies and essays published in Romania before and after 1989.
For all the dearth of information and the constraints obtaining prior to this date, the book sets out from the premise that a fresh scrutiny – prompted by the desire to reconstruct a truer picture of the artistic phenomenon with all its determinations – should bring out other levels of understanding or angles of interpretation than those that used to make the rule. This shift in method implies no longer perceiving the history of art as the history of strictly stylistic modifications but going for a more contextual approach, accompanied by a better grasp of social history of art and of political sciences data.” – Magda Cârneci
224 p.