In the Shadow of Yalta: Art and the Avant-garde in Eastern Europe, 1945-1989, HC, Near Fine

Piotrowski, Piotr. London: Reaktion Books Ltd., 2009.

English translated by Anna Brzyski, US Edition, Near Fine, HC, 4to, 7” x 9 ¾,” 487 pp.

ISBN: 9781861894380

Black woven cloth over boards, white stamped titling to spine, yellow endpapers and pastedowns, in publisher’s black dust jacket with full-color illustration to front, white and yellow text to front, spine, and inside gate flaps. Very minor edgewear and bumping to head and tail of spine, mild soiling from glue to inside pastedowns near spine, minor scratching to fore edge of pages, otherwise excellent. In a Near Fine dust jacket now protected in a Mylar sleeve. Mild shelfwear, mild edgewear and bumping, otherwise excellent. 487 pp. Replete with black-and-white images. Piotrowski has dedicated this book to the overview of art  in “Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Poland, East Germany, Romania, Hungary and Bulgaria from the end of the Second World War to the collapse of Communism in 1989” (from the dust jacket). Modernism and avant-garde art are explored in detail, alongside ideologies that shaped the art of the time. “In the Shadow of Yalta offers new critical insights into the lives of artists, the politics of art and culture, and the character of the avant-garde art practices that were pursued behind the Iron Curtain during a crucial era in the history of modern Europe” (from the dust jacket).