Paper Revolutions: An Invisible Avant-Garde - Sarah E. James east germany –– Edwin Frank

–– Edwin Frank

and postcolonial conditions

The publication collects the artist’s writing alongside his most recent series of drawings “Several birds fly away when they understand it”

and creative writing

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

Paper Revolutions: An Invisible Avant-Garde - Sarah E. James east germany –– Edwin FrankThe 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