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'Amy Bryzgel's Performing the East charts new territory in a great many ways. The product of ten years of dedicated research into specific explicit bodies produced in Russia, Latvia and Poland in the 1980s and 1990s, its case studies and critiques contain nuggets of inflections that alter our understanding of late twentieth-century performance art projects. The appreciation of the discourses on life, art, politics, langauge, gender and identity offered by six artists (five male and one female) who Bryzgel put under her intellectual microscope will be of very great benefit to those concerned with comprehending the trajectories of recent art.' (Jeremy Howard, Senior Lecturer, School of Art History, University of St Andrews 'Amy Bryzgel does a wonderful job of analyzing and contextualizing recent Eastern European performance art. Her ability to weave together descriptions of performances into a coherent narrative of the cultural, political, social and artistic movements which gave rise to them makes this an invaluable reference source and an excellent read. For anyone who is interested in contemporary art, this book will open new avenues of inquiry for the reader to explore.' (Mark Konecny, Associate Director of the Institute of Modern Russian Culture, University of Southern California (USC)

'Amy Bryzgel's Performing the East charts new territory in a great many ways. The product of ten years of dedicated research into specific ""explicit bodies"" produced in Russia, Latvia and Poland in the 1980s and 1990s, its case studies and critiques contain nuggets of inflections that alter our understanding of late twentieth-century performance art projects. The appreciation of the discourses on life, art, politics, langauge, gender and identity offered by six artists (five male and one female) who Bryzgel put under her intellectual microscope will be of very great benefit to those concerned with comprehending the trajectories of recent art.' (Jeremy Howard, Senior Lecturer, School of Art History, University of St Andrews 'Amy Bryzgel does a wonderful job of analyzing and contextualizing recent Eastern European performance art. Her ability to weave together descriptions of performances into a coherent narrative of the cultural, political, social and artistic movements which gave rise to them makes this an invaluable reference source and an excellent read. For anyone who is interested in contemporary art, this book will open new avenues of inquiry for the reader to explore.' (Mark Konecny, Associate Director of the Institute of Modern Russian Culture, University of Southern California (USC)

"'Amy Bryzgel's Performing the East charts new territory in a great many ways. The product of ten years of dedicated research into specific ""explicit bodies"" produced in Russia, Latvia and Poland in the 1980s and 1990s, its case studies and critiques contain nuggets of inflections that alter our understanding of late twentieth-century performance art projects. The appreciation of the discourses on life, art, politics, langauge, gender and identity offered by six artists (five male and one female) who Bryzgel put under her intellectual microscope will be of very great benefit to those concerned with comprehending the trajectories of recent art.' (Jeremy Howard, Senior Lecturer, School of Art History, University of St Andrews 'Amy Bryzgel does a wonderful job of analyzing and contextualizing recent Eastern European performance art. Her ability to weave together descriptions of performances into a coherent narrative of the cultural, political, social and artistic movements which gave rise to them makes this an invaluable reference source and an excellent read. For anyone who is interested in contemporary art, this book will open new avenues of inquiry for the reader to explore.' (Mark Konecny, Associate Director of the Institute of Modern Russian Culture, University of Southern California (USC)"

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Amy Bryzgel is Lecturer in History of Art in the School of Divinity, History and Philosophy at the University of Aberdeen. Her area of specialization is contemporary art from Eastern Europe and Russia from the second half of the twentieth century.

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