Includes bibliographical references and index.

Globalizing East European art histories : the legacy of Piotr Piotrowski and a conference / Be©Łta Hock -- Challenging the national container : from the transnational to the planetary. Uprooting origins : Polish-Lithuanian art and the challenge of pluralism / Tomasz Grusiecki ; Managing trans/nationality : cultural actors within imperial structures / Be©Łta Hock ; From fringe interest to hegemony : the emergence of the Soros network in Eastern Europe / Krist©đf Nagy ; Towards a planetary history of East European art / Maja Fowkes and Reuben Fowkes -- Hybridity : identities and forms. Reflections on the politics of portraiture in early modern Poland / Carolyn C. Guile ; Eastern Europeanizing globalization : Polish artists at the Venice Art Biennale and the microcosms of globalization / J©œrg Scheller ; Modernism on the margins : Breslau's architectural future between high-rise utopia and down-to-earth realism / Sarah M. Schlachetzki -- Global communities and the traffic in ideas. The circulation of feminist ideas in communist Poland / Agata Jakubowska ; "Our imaginings unite with reality" : ideological encounters in Milan Kn©Ư¿ℓ©Łk's Ten Lessons / Anu Allas ; Transculturation, cultural transfer, and the colonial matrix of power on the Cold War margins : East European art seen from Latin America / Katarzyna Cytlak -- Contemporary art praxis and the production of discourses. Undoing the East : towards the world's (semi-)peripheries / Joanna Soko¿‚owska ; Performance art in the global flow of cultural goods : some Eastern European positions / Amy Bryzgel ; artistic responses to LGBTQI gaps in archives : from World War II Asian America to Postwar Soviet Estonia / Alpesh Kantilal Patel

This edited collection reassesses East-Central European art by offering transnational perspectives on its regional or national histories, while also inserting the region into contemporary discussions of global issues. Both in popular imagination and, to some degree, scholarly literature, East-Central Europe is persistently imagined as a hermetically isolated cultural landscape. This book restores the diverse ways in which East-Central European art has always been entangled with actors and institutions in the wider world