Gendered Artistic Positions and Social Voices
Politics, Cinema, and the Visual Arts in State-Socialist and Post-Socialist Hungary
Gendered Artistic Positions and Social Voices
Politics, Cinema, and the Visual Arts in State-Socialist and Post-Socialist Hungary
The history of women's art and gendered cultural practices has had a troubled record in Hungary as in many countries of East-Central Europe, and it mostly features as a missing phenomenon. This "lack" is often attributed on the one hand to state-socialist government policies that "emancipated" women at the same time as they hindered grass-roots social movements, including feminism, and on the other hand, to a re-traditionalizing social environment after the political changes of 1989. Beata Hock critically re-examines the supposed absences and presences of feminist cultural practice in Hungary with a focus on fine arts and cinema. The gendered dimensions of art production are explored in relation to larger social and cultural contexts in order to offer a uniquely interdisciplinary account.
"Beata Hock ist eine differenzierte und in weiten Teilen als Pionierleistung zu wertenden interdisziplinäre Studie zur visuellen Kultur Ungarns in ihren wandelnden lokalen und internationalen Bezügen im Laufe von 60 Jahren gelungen."
Eva Pluharová-Grigiene, H-Soz-Kult, 04/2013
| ISBN | 978-3-515-10209-4 |
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| Media type | Book - Hardcover |
| Edition number | 1. |
| Copyright year | 2013 |
| Publisher | Franz Steiner Verlag |
| Length | 284 pages |
| Illustrations | 6 col. figs., 6 b/w tables |
| Size | 17.0 x 24.0 cm |
| Language | English |
