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Is Your Pop Our Pop? Art History as Self-Colonization in East-Central Europe

publication · 2026-04-24

ARTMargins Online publishes an essay by Katalin Timár and Attila Horányi from Budapest, part of a series on contemporary art in East-Central Europe. The text is based on a panel convened by Susan Snodgrass at the College Art Association's annual meeting. It argues that repetition is a key concept in theorizing the postmodern condition, citing Hal Foster's 'The Return of the Real' and Rosalind Krauss's 'The Originality of the Avant-Garde' from MIT Press. The essay examines how art history functions as a self-colonizing tool in the region.

Key facts

  • Essay by Katalin Timár and Attila Horányi
  • Part of ARTMargins series on East-Central European art
  • Based on panel by Susan Snodgrass at CAA annual meeting
  • Cites Hal Foster's 'The Return of the Real' (MIT Press, 1996)
  • Cites Rosalind Krauss's 'The Originality of the Avant-Garde'
  • Focuses on repetition in postmodern theory
  • Examines art history as self-colonizing tool
  • Published in March 2002

Entities

Artists

  • Katalin Timár
  • Attila Horányi
  • Susan Snodgrass
  • Hal Foster
  • Rosalind Krauss

Institutions

  • ARTMargins Online
  • College Art Association
  • MIT Press

Locations

  • Budapest
  • Hungary
  • East-Central Europe
  • Cambridge
  • Massachusetts
  • United States

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