Proceedings 8. Art and real politics

The articles published in this issue are partly from the 2012 Kumu Art Museum. which was also entitled “Art and Real Politics”. The collections of the Estonian Art Museum reflecting the Soviet period still need further research and interpretation, the Soviet period and its manifestations in art and culture in general are also among the museum’s research priorities. 2007 was also dedicated to the art of the Cold War. Kumu Art Museum’s autumn conference “Different modernisms, different avant-garde. The artistic problems of Central and Eastern Europe after the Second World War “

There are ten texts in this collection that continue to explore Cold War art. This time, however, it is not examined to what extent the ideological cultural policy of that time influenced and shaped our artistic image and what the consequences of these influences were, but the line between the relationship between art and everyday political life is in question. Political reality means not only translating Soviet ideology into the pragmatic language of politics, but also ideological repression and propaganda by Western nations, especially the United States, ranging from the distribution of philosophical and political literature in the Eastern bloc to . This is a highly controversial and multi-layered period: the clash of two superpowers has given rise to different cultural models, which make it difficult to decide where and how the borders between the two Europeans separated by the Iron Curtain originate and whether universal perceptions and cultural processes are not political.