Paper Revolutions: An Invisible Avant-Garde - Sarah E. James east germany and conceptual artist Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt

and conceptual artist Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt

Ghayath Almadhoun writes love poems in the shape of nightmares: I HAVE BROUGHT YOU A SEVERED HAND is a surreal mix of absurd humour

When not sending emails to a BDSM obsessed catfish she attempts to ease her conscience by volunteering at a refugee centre known for its Syrian cuisine

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Paper Revolutions: An Invisible Avant-Garde - Sarah E. James east germany and conceptual artist Ruth Wolf-RehfeldtThe experimental practices of a group of artists in the former East Germany upends assumptions underpinning Western art's postwar histories. In Paper Revolutions, Sarah E. James offers a radical rethinking of experimental art in the former East Germany (the GDR). Countering conventional accounts that claim artistic practices in the GDR were isolated and conservative, James introduces a new narrative of neo avantgarde practice in the Eastern Bloc that