title: Farewell to a Myth. On Close Relationships between Modernism and Totalitarianism
abstract: Regardless of changing historical situation in particular countries of the Eastern bloc modernism is usually referred to as a distinct artistic choice implying moral and political protest against totalitarian Stalinist power in favor of the cultural and democratic values of the West. Such a myth of modernism as a tool of resistance has shaped the worldview and intellectual perspective of many artists, art historians and critics from Central and Eastern Europe and can be found even in those studi
journal: edoc Publication server (Humboldt University of Berlin)