The Arts: An End to 'Doubleness'
The Arts: An End to 'Doubleness'
Author(s): Wojciech Kosc, Boyko Vassilev, Lucie Kavanova, Anita Komuves, Pavol Szalai, Sinziana DemianSubject(s): Cultural Essay, Political Essay, Societal Essay
Published by: Transitions Online
Keywords: Iron Curtain; Bulgaria; the Czech Republic; Hungary; Poland; Romania; Slovakia; 1989; communism; photographer; actor; drummer and lyricist; art; painter; writer
Summary/Abstract: What does an artist, accustomed to using metaphor and subterfuge under communism, do when the lid comes off? See more special coverage of the anniversary of the fall of the Iron Curtain at our 20 Years After website. [As we look at how life has changed – or stayed the same – over the past 20 years, TOL correspondents in Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and Slovakia asked people in various professions to describe their working life today compared with conditions before 1989. This collection of interviews with artists is the first in the series that resulted.]
Journal: Transitions Online
- Issue Year: 2009
- Issue No: 10/13
- Page Count: 6
- Language: English
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