A ground-breaking overview of the visual cultures of Eastern Europe in the modern age

Embraces the whole spectrum of art creation, including painting, sculpture, architecture, the applied arts, photography, and performance
Avoids conventional art historical divisions to focus on the many hidden relationships between different art forms and artistic cultures that flourished in this vast region


The arts that flourished between the Arctic Ocean and the Black Sea and between Austria and Russian Alaska from the seventeenth to the twentieth century are some of the most potent in history. Yet they, and their cultural context, remain little known.

East European Art addresses this by providing a sweeping view of key artistic developments and connections in the lands of the Romanov and Habsburg empires as well as their neighbouring and successor states. And it argues that a greater appreciation of East European art will lead us to a much-needed fresh definition of `European` art as a whole.