The politics of migration and mobility in the art world: transnational Baltic artistic practices across Europe

Explores the nature of artistic practices for highly mobile artists from the Baltic States, moving regularly across multiple borders across Europe in order to maintain their position on the global art world. Artists with trans-local homes that combine and connect homeland, host country and a uniqueunderstanding of home and belonging. 12 b/w illus.

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Front Cover -- Half Title -- frontispiece -- The Politics of Migration and Mobility in the Art World: Transnational Baltic Artistic Practices across Europe -- Copyright -- Table of contents -- List of Figures -- Introduction -- Transnational Artistic Practices of Migration and Mobility -- Creative European Mobilities and Migrations -- Moving Beyond the Binaries of Migration Literature -- Europe: A Space of Free Movement? -- A Renewed 'Mobilities Paradigm' -- Transnational Diasporas of Artistic Practices -- Diasporic Connections across Geographic and Ethnic Borders -- Chapter Outline -- Notes

1 Researching the Baltic States and Its Mobile Professionals: Context and Methodology -- Introduction -- Research Context on the Baltic States -- Researching Mobile Professionals -- Research Parameters -- A Mobile, Multisited Methodology -- Combining Visual Cultures and Social Science -- Notes -- 2 Cross-Cultural Exchange and Cultural Transition in the Baltic Art Worlds -- Introduction -- Historical and Cultural Context of the Baltic States -- Cross-Border Travel and Communication in the Soviet Union -- Total Break orGradual Shift in Art and Culture after 1991

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