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    About me
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    Books & chapters in books
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Courses
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    Art and Politics in Modern Dictatorships in SA & EE
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    Transregional remembrance of dictatorships
    Understanding 1989 in East-Central European Art: War vs. Revolution
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Caterina Preda -
  • About
    • About me
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    • Books & chapters in books
    • Special issues of journals
    • Academic Articles
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    • Art and Politics in Modern Dictatorships in SA & EE
    • Artistul de stat
    • Roma OVT
    • GRSAP
    • Artist collectives
    • Transregional remembrance of dictatorships
    • Understanding 1989 in East-Central European Art: War vs. Revolution
    • Corneliu Petrescu
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Travel

impresii de la Lisabona

April 21, 2009 by cpreda 4 Comments


am fost o saptamana la Lisabona la conferinta ECPR la un panel despre societate civila in regimuri autoritare cu un focus in mod special pe Orientul Mijlociu si Nordul Africii. A fost foarte interesant si in sfarsit mi-a revenit cheful de cercetare! 🙂
dar nu despre asta vreau sa scriu. vreau sa notez cateva impresii pe care mi le-a lasat orasul.
imi doream de mai mult timp sa ajung la Lisabona. mult mai specific dupa ce am vazut filmul Piedras care se termina cu imagini din Lisabona in care una din protagoniste alege sa stea. Lisabona a devenit atunci sinonima cu libertatea. si cu soarele si oceanul (in ignoranta mea nu stiam de raul ce o scalda pe Lisabona si eram convinsa ca e oceanul!)
acestea fiind spuse. am ajuns lunea trecuta acolo si ploua. si nu prea s-a oprit ploaia toata saptamana. din poze nu-ti dai seama caci duminica a fost cel mai frumos soare! si asa a fost si vineri dupa-amiaza cand am avut liber de la workshop. cu alte cuvinte, asteptarile mai ales bazate pe fictiuni filmice nu trebuie luate de bune, asa cum fac eu…

in primul rand la Lisabona totul e ieftin si asta nu inceteaza sa te surprinda pana la sfarsit. am mancat dulciuri foarte bune, ceva cu nata mi-a placut cel mai mult (nu pot retine nimic in portugheza desi partial inteleg date fiind celelalte limbi latine din palmares). Peste tot, dar chiar peste tot era o Pastelaria, un fel de cafenea-cofetarie cu dulciuri de tot felul, unul mai zaharos ca altul
apoi toti lisbetanii par sa aiba o umbrela mare, din acelea cu care se plimba in general mosulicii placizi. ei bine, Lisabona parea sa fie orasul oamenilor de tot felul inarmati cu umbreloiul de rigoare. M-am gandit sa nu fi fost o promotie ceva…desi la cum ploua poate ca nu era de mirare!

mi-e deja dor cafenelele din Lisboa. e ceva cu a sta in cafenea intr-un oras strain. sa urmaresti forfota si mica agitatie si in acelasi timp sa-ti zboare gandul asa cum in propria tara, in obisnuitele cafenele parca nu mai ai timp sa o faci. sa scrii vederi! sorbind din cafe latte (nu pot retine nimic in portugheza…)

am mancat aproape mereu in restaurantele mici mici de tot (cantinha); incapeau fix 5 sau 6 mese dar nu in stilul parizian ci asa cu un aer mai de sufragerie in care ai intrat din greseala si nu vrei sa deranjezi. felul principal, preferat, era pestele (bacalao la micul dejun, pranz si seara!:-) gatit la gratar si cu legume pregatite in aburi…miam miam.

apoi mi-a placut orasul de sus, mai ales de sus. de pe dealuri sau de la castel, sau de la punctul de pozat sus langa liftul Santa Justa.

la Lisabona metroul vine invers. l-am folosit in fiecare zi pentru a ajunge la universitatea care gazduia conferinta plus ca era util cu ploicicile zilnice. un neamt de la panel spunea ca e din cauza ca metroul a fost adus de la Londra (recunostea el vagoanele!) eu nu pot confirma sau infirma dar pot mentiona ca era bizar. ma uitam mereu gresit…nu mi-a placut ca nu era metrou pana la Belem (partea cu manastirea Ieronimilor si turnul Belem) si deci trebuia sa fac pana acolo 2 ore cu alte autobuze si distractii rutiere si nu m-am mai dus. dar trebuie sa mai am ceva de descoperit si data viitoare. caci sigur ma intorc la Lisabona. trebuie sa ajung si la Sintra. neaparat!
acestea fiind zise, recomand Lisabona pentru poezia ce pluteste in aer, pentru strazile pietruite, albe de la ploaie. si chiar si ploaia acum ca stau si ma gandesc era simpatica 🙂

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Art and politics

CEAUsescu

February 13, 2009 by cpreda 9 Comments

I bought today an album which could have served me well while writing my Phd but I guess I will now be able to use it for the volume I will publish. The album entitled Ceau consists of the collection of images inherited from the ex Museum of the Romanian Communist Party that are deposited inside the Museum of Contemporary art (MNAC) of Bucharest. It was realized by the Swiss artist Cristoph Buchel and the Italian curator Giovanni Carmine. The album is printed in excellent conditions and is organized around several of the grand themes of the iconography of the Ceausescus (as the Romanian leader appears together with his family): Ceausescu in his youth, him and his wife receiving flowers from pioneers, the two of them hunting., etc The album is an excellent resource, as it shows – by the way the reproductions are displayed – not only the rudimentary visual rhetoric of these representations but also the inter-exchangeable figures and poses. The same contours of the Ceausescu couple are applied in two different contexts as some kind of passe-partout figures.

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street art

art and the street in art

February 7, 2009 by cpreda 236 Comments

street art or art in the street can denominate quite different things. I thought to write a bit about this topic after reading that one of the creators of the “Obama visual myth” was arrested recently for tagging…and this is not surprising. A rather recent form of art, street art (including graffiti and the youngest, the stencil) has been recognized as such (as a form of art) by the consecration of its anonymous artists as mainstream artists. Shepard Fairey is one of these artists that gained world fame by making the red and blue Obama poster. He is also a street artist dedicated to the futile passing signs along with some of his most famous colleagues such as Banksy (frescoes and stencils) and the Poster Boy (rather close to French New Realism). Yet street art even though appreciated as a form of art remains in the same time assimilated to vandalism and thus, a nowadays artist who communicates through everyday signs which he intervenes is still considered a vandal and risks prison… Controversy, the indispensable artistic ingredient, passes no more through the exhibition and declamation of long hidden taboos but through colored or simple lines drawn i/on the street there where everyone can “participate”. As participation is a verb that characterizes this new form of art: it nurtures itself on the passersby. Street Art is of course at a certain level continuing the anti-institutional artistic discourse that most link back to Duchamp’s gesture. Democracy also punishes art in this way. If the Chilean Muralists of the 1970s were punished by the Pinochet regime for their colored drawings politically driven so is Fairey; in his case not by the implications of his artistic gesture but for the gesture itself: one does not draw on the walls.

For what happened to Shephard Fairey check this out

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Art and politics

Terror and the Arts

January 25, 2009 by cpreda 8 Comments

a very interesting book to which I also collaborated by writing a piece discussing the art of the regime of Ceausescu and of the Pinochet regime. You can find it presented on the Palgrave website

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no travelling in 2008…

December 19, 2008 by cpreda No Comments

a very bad year for my travels…except for the 5 months I spent in Paris and the only one! trip to Brux I made during that stay I have not seen in 2008 any new place (i.e. country or at least city!). The phd is to blame…BUT I intend to recuperate my lost trips in 2009 which hopefully will turn out to be a better year from all the imaginable points of view 🙂 2008 is soon gone and I can’t say I regret it as it was quite a bad year for me.
19 december 2008

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Roma mia (pt ca acolo a inceput calatoria)

September 17, 2008 by cpreda 4 Comments


este timpul acela din an in care mi-e poate cel mai dor de Roma. ca de fiecare data ma resemnez. stiu ca nu pot merge inca acolo senina. am mai incercat si anul trecut pentru o dupa-amiaza, in drum spre Pisa. aman deci. ma pricep la asta. dar mi-e tare dor de Roma, de mine si ceilalti la Roma demult deja. de strazi numai de noi stiute, de pizza cea buna de pe Corso (nu cea turistica la care e imbulzeala), de inghetata de langa Fontana di Trevi, cea din stanga cum te uiti la fantana dinspre biserica, de un hamburgher la MCul de la Pantheon, de o bere in Trastevere. de filme pe inserat, de rasete in bucataria tuturor conflictelor, de escapade de weekend in italia devenita tara de poveste din cauza ta. mi-e dor de mers cu tramvaiul la scoala (nu-i mai stiu numarul..19 mergea la Risorgimento, dar celalalt?) cu castile de la walkmanul cu caseta cu Nelly in urechi si cu ochii lipiti de geam. pe rand le vad defiland pe toate
mi-e dor de privelistea de deasupra Pza di Spania intr-o seara de mai chiar inainte…
mi-e dor de atunci
mi-e dor de roma asa cum mi-e dor sa mai simt ca in fata mea se asterne totul

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Paris again

April 29, 2008 by cpreda 8 Comments

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Pisa

September 9, 2007 by cpreda 77 Comments

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Paris in iulie

July 30, 2007 by cpreda 2 Comments

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Santiago de Chile (june-july 2007)

July 25, 2007 by cpreda 2,112 Comments

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