title: TransStates: Conceptual Art in Eastern Europe and the Limits of Utopia
abstract: This dissertation explores the utopian and metaphysical aspirations found in the pockets of collective creativity that drove Conceptual art in Eastern Europe in the 1960s and 1970s. It does so by focusing on two groups of artists from the places that defined the limits of relative freedom and unfreedom in Cold War Eastern Europe: the former Yugoslavia and the former USSR. Thus, I trace the trajectories of philosophical and stylistic developments in the work of the OHO collective, which worked in
journal: Deep Blue (University of Michigan)