The book examines and questions Ewa Partum's artistic practice and historicizes its dissemination in various geopolitical locations.

Polish-born artist Ewa Partum is considered a pioneer of Central-Eastern European feminist art produced within the conceptual idiom. Her work can also be divided chronologically into Polish (1965-82), West Berlin (1982-1989) and transnational (from 1989) periods. Karolina Majewska-Güde articulates the historical alterity of Ewa Partum's works in their various locations and the specificity of the positions from which Partum's art was interpreted and disseminated. At the same time, the book engages with the art histories of the Central and Eastern European neo-avant-gardes focusing on the issue of narrative strategies of CEE art history.

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Karolina Majewska-Güde is a researcher, art historian and curator at the Institute of Art History at the University of Warsaw. From 2019 to 2021, she worked as an assistant professor at the Institute for the History and Theory of Art at Katholische Privat-Universität Linz and is currently leading a research project on collective artistic women's work under socialism at the University of Warsaw. She is involved in several international collaborative research projects that deal with the rewriting of the art history of East Central Europe from a transnational and feminist perspective.