Green Bloc

Dr. Maja Fowkes is Co-Director of the Translocal Institute for Contemporary Art, Budapest. She is the author of several books, including River Ecologies: Contemporary Art and Environmental Humanities on the Danube (2015) and Loophole to Happiness (2011).

• Acknowledgments, Introduction 1. Abstract Elements in the Industrial Environment: The Land Art of the Hungarian Group Pécs Workshop 2. The Cosmic Environment of the Slovenian Group OHO 3. Ecology of the Socialist City: The Public Art of the Croatian Group TOK 4. Correlations of Geography, Ecology, and Cosmology in the Conceptual Practice of Slovak Artist Rudolf Sikora 5. Embodied Environmental Awareness in the Performative Practice of Czech Artist Petr Štembera, Bibliography, Illustration, Credits, Index.

"At the end of the book, Fowkes writes that the attitudes and approaches to the environment of the young generation of Central European artists were on the one hand synchronous with other artistic impulses from around the globe which voiced unprecedented awareness of the looming ecological crisis, while on the other hand the specific circumstances in which the many filters of the Iron Curtain acutely influenced the flow of information and exchange resulted in exceptional contributions to the convergence of art and ecology. This book is a rare example of research on the history of environmental concerns at the cross-section of art and politics from the 'other side' of the Iron Curtain. It is a welcome addition to the growing body of Anthropocene studies, as well as the history of East and Central European art."