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        1. Research Library

        Art and Theory After Socialism

        Mel Jordan and Malcom Miles

        University of Chicago Press 2009

        ISBN 9781841502113

      2. A selection of essays considering how contemporary visual art, theory, and criticism changed after the end of the Cold War. Texts explore the links between art and everyday life in the post-Cold War world and consider the ‘ex-East and ex-West’ in their new incarnations. See in particular chapter 5, Appropriating the Ex-Cold War by Malcolm Miles and chapter 6, The End of an Idea: On Art, Horizons, and the Post-Socialist Condition by Simon Sheihk, FORMER WEST researcher.

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