Bracewell, W; (2020) Eastern Europe, with and without borders. In: Milutinović, Z, (ed.) The Rebirth of Area Studies: Challenges for History, Politics and International Relations in the 21st Century. (pp. 91-128). I. B. Tauris: London, UK.

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In the early years of the twenty-first century, the young Polish artist Jan Dziaczkowski (1983–2011) created a series of collages, inserting images of socialist-era architecture, monuments and everyday life into postcards of famous western European scenes. Grey tower blocks loom over Piccadilly Circus and march alongside the Leaning Tower of Pisa; a statue of Lenin dwarfs the building of Gropius’s Dessau Bauhaus; Princess Diana glances up from work at an industrial loom; young women in headscarves, carrying rakes and brooms, stride purposefully through the Louvre or take notes, accompanied by a herd of cows, in front of a portico supported by caryatids. The series was entitled Keine Grenze or ‘no border’. Its impact depends on the viewer recognizing the ways that these images do in fact encode the two sides of a border, that between Cold War Eastern Europe and the West: on the one side concrete monoliths, [...]

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