Artists & Agents: Performance Art and Secret Services edited by Kata Krasznahorkai and Sylvia Sasse hunter blair including the UN

including the UN

glasnost (translating as “openness” or “transparency”) was a movement that allowed for artistic and open-minded alternatives to the state-endorsed Social Realism

yet underestimated in policy

to English readers for the first time

Artists & Agents: Performance Art and Secret Services edited by Kata Krasznahorkai and Sylvia Sasse hunter blair including the UNSubversion does not belong to anyone. It can come from artists who outwit the state or from intelligence agencies who infiltrate the art scene on behalf of the state. But what happens when the two sides meet? After the old state security archives in many Eastern European countries were opened, it became possible for this interaction to be studied in detail. Drawing on scientific essays and artistic contributions, the book shows how the secret police