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    Sweet Sixties : Specters and Spirits of a parallel avant-garde / [edited by] Georg Schöllhammer, Ruben Arevshatyan.

    • Title:Sweet Sixties : Specters and Spirits of a parallel avant-garde / [edited by] Georg Schöllhammer, Ruben Arevshatyan.
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    • Variant Title:Specters and Spirits of a parallel avant-garde
    • Other Contributors/Collections:Schöllhammer, Georg, editor.
      Arevshatyan, Ruben, editor.
    • Published/Created:Berlin : Sternberg Press, [2013]
      ©2013.
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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Arts, Modern--20th century.
      Nineteen sixties.
      Civilization, Modern--1950-
      Arts, Middle Eastern--20th century.
      Arts, Central Asian--20th century.
      Arts, Armenian--20th century.
      Arts, Turkish--20th century.
      Arts, East European--20th century.
      Arts, Latin American--20th century.
      Avant-garde (Aesthetics)--20th century.
    • Description:527 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
    • Summary:Sweet Sixties is a long-term trans-regional research initiative working between art, research, media, and educational contexts in Europe, the Middle East, western and central Asia, Latin America, and northern Africa. Involving a particular group of experimentally oriented arts and research groups as well as individual artists, researchers, and media, Sweet Sixties investigates hidden histories or underexposed cultural junctions and exchange channels in the revolutionary period of the 1960s. In the 1960s, the landscapes and cities of protectorates and former colonies from India to the Maghreb, from the Soviet Republics to the new states in the southern hemisphere were replete with the spirit and forms of modernity, forms that transmogrify and then dissolve into the thin air of the vernacular. The star maps that are used to survey these artificial worlds often serve to navigate the boundaries between private and public domains. The world full of eerie displacements, gestures of the uncanny, and the constellation of the real exists in a plethora of doubled forms. Question marks and meanderings are all part of this picture. Instruments of communication emerge and are locked away before they have a chance to become immaterial, disappear, and corrode in postmodernity. The air of the 1960s echoes a spirit of emancipation. And the newly arising art-scapes are interspersed with double agents: diasporas bring their academies; the streams between Soviet, North and South American, Western European, Non-Aligned, etc., are full of interlocutions, hidden pathways, and narratives of trade routes beyond the seemingly stable hegemonies of the blocs. The stories and spirits of a parallel avant-garde, whose silhouettes have yet to be found on the walls of the Western canon, are the theme of this publication. - from publisher.
    • Notes:"This book is published as part of the Sweet Sixties project, 2010-2013" - colophon
      Includes bibliographical references.
    • ISBN:9783956790393
      3956790391
    • Contents:The Sweet Sixties : between the liberation of peoples and the liberty of individuals, or the difficult representation of the self / Daho Djerbal
      Classical art and human resignation in Soviet Marxism / Keti Chukrov
      Sweet Sixties : archaeology of thought in Turkey / Ali Akay
      Art and the iron lung : when sovereignty becomes detrimental and art subtly strikes back / Bassam El Baroni
      Decentered travelers / Ana Longoni
      Northeasternized modernism : notes on an emancipatory modernist constellation in Brazil / Catrin Seefranz
      Speculative revisions of film history : a curator's notes / Rasha Salti
      Registers of participation : two cultural experiments with the contemporary in 1960s India / Nancy Adajania
      National modernism / Vardan Azatyan
      American tutti-frutti / Porter McCray
      Egypt builds : a re-evaluation of the history of modernism / Mohamed Elsahahed
      Black sun of renewal / Toni Maraini
      An operative conceptualism : factography and counter-information in the Argentinian cultural avant-garde of the 1960s / Jaime Vindel
      Missing Ahmed Bouanani / Ali Essafi
      Thaw and the poetics of soil / Viktor Misiano
      The walls of memory : interdisciplinarity and repression in the Soviet Ukrainian 1960s and beyond / Oleksiy Radynski
      Other voices, other rooms
      attempt(s) at reconstruction : 50 years of the Balázs Béla Studio / Lívia Páldi
      Mon arabesque / Derya Bengi
      El encierro : project for the experimental art series / Graciela Carnevale
      A bloc of sensations in lieu of geography : Rome-Algiers-Salvador de Bahia (1959-75) / Tarek Elhaik
      Some architectural consequences of political ideas / Yehuda E. Safran
      The militant chapter in cinema / Mohanad Yaqubi
      Melting pot, Versailles-ization, and Petersburg-ization : European utopias in the architecture of central Asia / Boris Chukhovich
      Jeune peinture : The Parisian Third Way of the 1960s / Catherine Dossin
      Nineteen sixty-eight : global or local / Emin Alper
      Blank zones in collective memory, or the transformation of Yerevan's urban space in the 1960s / Ruben Arevshatyan
      Narratives of the 1960s / Sohrab Mahdavi
      The sixties
      sweet or bitter? / Matko Meštrović
      Vasarely go home / Andreas Fogarasi
      Desperately searching for aesthetics : Armenian cinema of the 1960s and late modernity / Vigen Galstyan
      New waves and new confusions : the case of Birds of exile (1964) / Ahmet Gürata
      Bir Gecelik Gelin
      One night bride / Fatih Özgüven
      Early Algerian cinema as site of international solidarity / Yasmina Dekkar
      Constructing non-aligned modernity : Zoran Bojović, the architect / Dubravka Sekulić
      Oriental waves in Romanian popular music from Wallachia and Moldavia / Speranţa Rădulescu
      De-Stalinization and mass music in the mid-1960s in Armenia / Vardan Jaloyan
      'Folk' behaving badly : newly composed folk music as popular culture / Iva Nenić
      The Soviet sixties : forms of cultural resistance / Hrach Bayadyan
      Season's greetings : an annotated postcard / Rayyane Tabet
      Why is the experience of Yugoslavia important today? / Ozren Pupovac
      Museum of manufactured response to absence / Ala Younis.
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