Multiple Realities: Experimental Art in the Eastern Bloc 1960s-1980s

"Published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name, Multiple Realities: Experimental Art in the Eastern Bloc, 1960s-1980s offers a sweeping survey of experimental art made in six Central Eastern European nations during the 1960s to 1980s. Drawing on visual art, performance, music, and material culture, the exhibition brings together works by nearly 100 artists from East Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, and Yugoslavia, shedding light on ways that artists refused, circumvented, eluded, and subverted official systems, in the process creating works often riddled with wit, humor, or irony--