Gendered Artistic Positions and Social Voices

Politics, Cinema, and the Visual Arts in State-Socialist and Post-Socialist Hungary

By (author) Beata Hock

Book cover: Gendered Artistic Positions and Social Voices

Extent: 284 pages

Publisher: Franz Steiner Verlag

Subjects: Social Sciences 

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(January 2013)

ISBN: 9783515102094

6.69 x 9.49 inches

Price: $86.00

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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, geb. in Nyiregyhaza (Ungarn), studierte Asthetik und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaften an der Eotvos Lorand Universitat, Budapest, sowie Geschlechterstudien an der Central European University, Budapest. 1998-2002: Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin an Artpool Muveszetkutato Kozpont (Artpool Art Research Center), Budapest. 2003-06: Redakteurin von “Praesens. Central European Contemporary Art Review”. Seit 2006: eigenstandige kuratorische Projekte. 2009-2010: Lehre an der Central European University und Magyar Kepzomuveszeti Egyetem (Universitat der Bildenden Kunste), Budapest. Seit Februar 2011: Mitarbeiterin am Geisteswissenschaftlichen Zentrum Geschichte und Kultur Ostmitteleuropas an der Universitat Leipzig. Arbeitsschwerpunkte: Kunstgeschichte, Kulturwissenschaft; Visuelle Kultur und kulturelle Produktion im Staatssozialismus; Identitatskonstruktionen in ostmitteleuropaischen staatssozialistischen und postsozialistischen Landern (regionale, politische, soziale und Geschlechtsidentitat).

  • By (author) Beata Hock