The State artist in Romania and Eastern Europe
L’artiste d’État en Roumanie et en Europe de l’Est
Published on Wednesday, April 27, 2016
Abstract
Cet appel s’adresse aux chercheurs travaillant sur la problématique du statut de l’artiste dans le contexte des régimes communistes et sur les diverses formes qu’a pu prendre le rapport entre les artistes et l’État, en Roumanie et en Europe de l’Est, en particulier dans le domaine des arts visuels.
Announcement
Argument
The establishment of communist regimes in Eastern Europe brought for the visual arts, the establishment of the “state artist” (Haraszti). Artworks were commissioned by the state, which offered extensive rewards for the artists, obliged to comply with the political and ideological rigors of the regime. As part of the research project “From the “state artist” to the artist dependent on the state: the case of the Union of Visual Artists (1950-2010) – the Bucharest branch”, this conference seeks to explore the different transformations that the artists underwent in order to comply with the extensive role assumed by the totalitarian state in the arts. We invite contributions on the broad topic announced, that of the state artist in Romania and Eastern Europe with a specific focus on visual arts, but we are also interested to discuss other instances of collaboration with the regimes in place (1950s-1990). The conference aims to discuss the state artist in the context of communist regimes from multiple points of views.
Main topics
The topics discussed could be, but are not limited to:
- How was the new artist shaped by the communist regimes?
- Were artists able to integrate Socialist Realism as a mandatory style? If not, which were the limits of this mandatory style or the national specificities?
- Which were the types of resistance to the model of the state artist?
- How did Socialist Realism translate in different visual practices?
- What role did the Union of Visual Artists of Romania play? How does it compare to other unions in the East?
- What are the transformations of the unions of artists after 1990?
Submission guidelines
Those interested in presenting a paper should send an abstract of 500 words as well as a short CV (including a short list of publications) to caterinapreda@gmail.com until the
15th of May 2016.
A selection of conference presentations will be published in a volume, thus the accepted participants must send their contributions 1 month in advance (1st of October 2016). The contributions must address the topic of the state artist, and must have 8.000 words including footnotes with a separate list of references.
The languages of the conferences are Romanian, English, French.
Scientific commitee
- Dr. Caterina Preda – Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Political Science, University of Bucharest
- Dr. Dan Draghia – Researcher, Faculty of Political Science, University of Bucharest
- Dr. Alina Popescu – Researcher, ISP – Univ. Paris Ouest Nanterre la Défense/ CEREFREA Villa Noël – Univ. of Bucharest
Place
The Institute for Political Research, Faculty of Political Science, University of Bucharest
Conference date
5 November 2016
Subjects
- Political studies (Main category)
- Society > Political studies > Political science
- Mind and language > Representation > Cultural history
- Mind and language > Representation > History of art
- Zones and regions > Europe > Central and Eastern Europe
- Mind and language > Representation > Visual studies
- Zones and regions > Europe
- Periods > Modern > Twentieth century > 1945-1989
Places
- Institut de Recherches Politiques - Faculté de Sciences Politiques de l'Université de Bucarest
Bucharest, Romania
Date(s)
- Sunday, May 15, 2016
Keywords
- art, communisme, Europe de l'Est, Roumanie, union des artistes, réalisme-socialiste, Guerre Froide
Contact(s)
- alina popescu
courriel : popescualinaa [at] yahoo [dot] fr - Caterina Preda
courriel : caterinapreda [at] gmail [dot] com
Reference Urls
Information source
- alina popescu
courriel : popescualinaa [at] yahoo [dot] fr
License
This announcement is licensed under the terms of Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal.
To cite this announcement
« The State artist in Romania and Eastern Europe », Call for papers, Calenda, Published on Wednesday, April 27, 2016, https://doi.org/10.58079/uy3
