Linking Art Worlds: American Art and East Central Europe in the Cold War and Since
The art scenes of the postwar United States and Eastern Europe have been rarely viewed within a shared framework. Rather, art history writing has captured the post-war decades in terms of an ultimate difference between artistic styles and cultural politics in the two opposing political blocs. With a view to displacing Cold War-indebted narratives and superseding art history’s traditional center-periphery frameworks, the traveling seminars explore the relationship between American art and events, developments and debates within the art scenes of East, Central and Southeastern Europe during the Cold War and in the post-socialist period. Exploring various »subtexts« defining art making both in North America and Eastern Europe, Linking (Art) Worlds aims to shed new light on telling differences and tease out hitherto lesser acknowledged parallels, connections, or synchronicities between the U.S. and East European contexts.

Junior fellowships were awarded to successful applicants to an Open Call. The project team has received 119 applications altogether: 65 from sixteen countries across East-Central Europe and the South Caucasus, 16 from the United States, and 38 from other European countries.

The project is funded by the Getty Foundation (USA) and the Terra Foundation for American Art (USA).