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        1. Research Library

        The Manifesta Decade: Debates on Contemporary Art Exhibitions and Biennials in Post-Wall Europe

        Barbara Vanderlinden and Elena Filipovic

        Cambridge, Mass.: Roomade & MIT Press 2005

        ISBN 0262220768

      2. Influential attempt to create a kind of history of the 1990s through an analysis of Manifesta, European Biennial for Contemporary Art. See in particular ‘One Day Every Wall Will Fall: Select Chronology of Art and Politics after 1989),’ FW curator Maria Hlavajova’s text ‘Towards the Normal: Negotiating the ‘Former East’, and Henry Meyric Hughes, ‘When East was East and West was West: Art Attitudes in the Cold War.’

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