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Processes of Integration and Disintegration in the European Arts

This paper will consider changes in the sphere of arts resulting from various attempts at canceling the social, political and ideological differences between the East and West, particularly after the fall of the Berlin wall. A review of the most significant visual art events, as well as those aimed at breaching the severed ties between East and West, leads to the following conclusion: the fall of the Berlin wall may have indeed resulted in major integration processes in some spheres, but on the plane of art it intensified a direct confrontation and raised a psychological block that is even more difficult to overcome. As artists enter into artistic dialogue with completely different perspectives and different backgrounds, conflicts are frequent, verging on public scandals and minor cultural wars, with retreat into one's own cultural scheme as the outcome. Moreover, as the artists sense that the collaboration is merely a reflection of the political, cultural and economic power games, all dialogue is rendered impossible. The consequence of integration is disintegration, and globalization bears regionalism. The author, naturally, also presents examples of artistic collaboration in the spirit of cultural tolerance (e.g. Documenta in Kassel), but concludes that finally even such events are primarily unequal exchanges (displays of diversities ).

art and new media vonvergence; visual communication media; European art after fall of the Berlin wall; art in education system

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