Parallel Public: Experimental Art in Late East Germany - Sara Blaylock book Constanza Mendoza

Constanza Mendoza

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Parallel Public: Experimental Art in Late East Germany - Sara Blaylock book Constanza MendozaHow East German artists made their country's experimental art scene a form of (counter) public life. Experimental artists in the final years of the German Democratic Republic did not practice their art in the shadows, on the margins, hiding away from the Stasi's prying eyes. In fact, as Sara Blaylock shows, many cultivated a critical influence over the very bureaucracies meant to keep them in line, undermining state authority through forthright rather