The geography and history of art in Eastern Europe
Behind the Iron Curtain before 1948. The Surrealist interregnum, 1945-8
Modernism and totalitarianism. The 'thaw' and Art informel ; Myths of geometry ; Un-socialist realism ; The critique of painting : towards the neo-avant-garde
The neo-avant-garde and 'real socialism' in the 1970's. Mapping the neo-avant-garde, c.1970 ; Conceptual art between theory of art and critique of the system ; The politics of identity : male and female body art
Epilogue : the spectres haunting Europe in the 1980's.
