Jump to Content
Brill Logo Brill Logo Brill Logo Brill Logo Brill Logo Brill Logo
  • 中文
  • Deutsch
Access via:
Dar Hadith al Hassania
Login to my Brill account Create Brill Account
Browse Our Titles
African Studies
American Studies
Ancient Near East and Egypt
Art History
Asian Studies
Biblical Studies
Biology
Book History and Cartography
Classical Studies
Education
History
Human Rights and Humanitarian Law
International Law
International Relations
Jewish Studies
Languages and Linguistics
Life Sciences
Literature and Cultural Studies
Media Studies
Middle East and Islamic Studies
Musicology
Philosophy
Religious Studies
Slavic and Eurasian Studies
Social Sciences
Theology and World Christianity

Becoming a Brill Author

Publishing Ethics & AI Policy

Publishing Guides

General Open Access Information

For Authors

For Academic Societies

For Librarians

Research Funding

Open Access Pricing

Books

Journals

Specialty Products

Metadata: Title Lists, MARC & KBART Files

Catalogs, Flyers and Price Lists

Accessing Brill Products

About Brill & its History

Imprints

Careers

Organization

Corporate Social Responsibility

News Archive

Sales Contacts

Ordering from Brill

Editorial Contacts

Offices Worlwide

Press & Reviews

Rights & Permissions

Course Adoption

Contact Form

Help
Brill Logo Brill Logo Brill Logo Brill Logo Brill Logo Brill Logo
Access via:
Dar Hadith al Hassania
Login to my Brill account Create Brill Account
  • 中文
  • Deutsch
Browse Our Titles
African Studies Education Media Studies
American Studies History Middle East and Islamic Studies
Ancient Near East and Egypt Human Rights and Humanitarian Law Musicology
Art History International Law Philosophy
Asian Studies International Relations Religious Studies
Biblical Studies Jewish Studies Slavic and Eurasian Studies
Biology Languages and Linguistics Social Sciences
Book History and Cartography Life Sciences Theology and World Christianity
Classical Studies Literature and Cultural Studies  

Becoming a Brill Author

Publishing Ethics & AI Policy

Publishing Guides

General Open Access Information

For Authors

For Academic Societies

For Librarians

Research Funding

Open Access Pricing

Books

Journals

Specialty Products

Metadata: Title Lists, MARC & KBART Files

Catalogs, Flyers and Price Lists

Accessing Brill Products

About Brill & its History

Imprints

Careers

Organization

Corporate Social Responsibility

News Archive

Sales Contacts

Ordering from Brill

Editorial Contacts

Offices Worlwide

Press & Reviews

Rights & Permissions

Course Adoption

Contact Form

Help

Copyright Page

In: Enchanted Socialist Modernity
Access via:
Dar Hadith al Hassania
  • Full Text

Proofreading financed by the University of Warsaw – IDUB: Excellence Initiative Research University (2024).

Logo
Logo
Logo

  • Download Figure
  • Download figure as PowerPoint slide

Cover illustration: Urszula Broll, Zones III [Strefy III], undated. Watercolour on paper. © Roger Urbanowicz, photo Tomasz Mielech.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Balisz-Schmelz, Justyna editor | Dworniczak, Kamila editor

Title: Enchanted socialist modernity : art of Central and Eastern Europe (1945-1989) in the face of alternative spirituality / edited by Justyna Balisz-Schmelz, Kamila Dworniczak.

Description: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2025] | Series: Aries book series, 1871-1405 ; volume 41 | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2025046233 (print) | LCCN 2025046234 (ebook) | ISBN 9789004747463 hardback | ISBN 9789004747470 ebook

Subjects: LCSH: Mysticism and art—Europe, Central—History—20th century | Mysticism and art—Europe, Eastern—History—20th century | Art, European—20th century—Themes, motives

Classification: LCC N72.M85 E52 2025 (print) | LCC N72.M85 (ebook)

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2025046233

LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2025046234

Typeface for the Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic scripts: “Brill”. See and download: brill.com/brill-typeface.

ISSN 1871-1405

ISBN 978-90-04-74746-3 (hardback)

ISBN 978-90-04-74747-0 (e-book)

DOI 10.1163/9789004747470

Copyright 2025 by Justyna Balisz-Schmelz and Kamila Dworniczak. Published by Koninklijke Brill BV, Plantijnstraat 2, 2321 JC Leiden, The Netherlands.

Koninklijke Brill BV incorporates the imprints Brill, Brill Nijhoff, Brill Schöningh, Brill Fink, Brill mentis, Brill Wageningen Academic, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Böhlau and V&R unipress.

Koninklijke Brill BV reserves the right to protect this publication against unauthorized use. Requests for re-use and/or translations must be addressed to Koninklijke Brill BV via brill.com or copyright.com.

For more information: info@brill.com.

This book is printed on acid-free paper and produced in a sustainable manner.

Citation Info

  • Save
  • Cite
  • Email this content

    Share link with colleague or librarian


    You can email a link to this page to a colleague or librarian:
    Email this content
    or copy the link directly:
    The link was not copied. Your current browser may not support copying via this button.
    Link copied successfully

  • Collapse
  • Expand

Enchanted Socialist Modernity

Art of Central and Eastern Europe (1945–1989) in the Face of Alternative Spirituality

Series:  Aries Book Series, Volume: 41
Cover Enchanted Socialist Modernity
E-Book ISBN:
9789004747470
Publisher:
Brill
Print Publication Date:
01 Dec 2025
  • Subjects
    • Philosophy
      • Philosophy of Religion
    • Religious Studies
      • Sociology of Religion
      • Religion and the Arts
Front Matter
Preliminary Material
Copyright Page
Figures and Tables
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: How to Enchant Socialist Modernity with Art?
Part 1 Persisting Spiritual Traditions in Times of Political Ruptures
Chapter 1 Josef Kotzian: Apostle of Silesian Media Drawing
Chapter 2 “Are There Ghosts in the Fourth Dimension?” Xawery Dunikowski’s Late Paintings and the Cosmic Occulture in Early Communist Poland
Chapter 3 The Spirituality of the Carbocene: on Coal and Art in Upper Silesia
Chapter 4 The Origin and Manifestation of Liudas Truikys’s Theory of the Synthesis of the Arts in Soviet Lithuanian Opera
Chapter 5 Genesis of Jana Olexová
Part 2 Utopias between Social Experiment and Esotericism
Chapter 6 The Secret Emissary of Saxony: the Mystical “Communist Realism” of Carlfriedrich Claus in Light of Jacob Böhme’s Concepts
Chapter 7 The Cultural Policy of Lyudmila Zhivkova between Party Ideology and Esoteric Teachings (1975–1981)
Chapter 8 Forecast and Fantasy in the Kinetic-Cybernetic Environments of the Art Group Dvizhenie
Chapter 9 In Search of Spirituality: Modernist Utopias – between Philosophy, Religion and Science in Romanian Art during Communism
Part 3 Art as a Spiritual Practice
Chapter 10 The Decisive Moment of Contemplation: Photography as a Spiritual Practice in the Work of Andrzej Strumiłło
Chapter 11 Spiritual Self-Education as a Micropolitics of Resistance: Urszula Broll’s Mandalas
Chapter 12 A Journey to Understand Oneself: on Major Arcana Paintings by Maria Anto
Chapter 13 The Spiritual Turn and Inner Emigration in Ukrainian Artistic Nonconformism of the 1970s and 1980s on the Example of Oleksandr Aksinin
Chapter 14 Making Visible: Mandalas and Fibulae of Genādijs Suhanovs
Part 4 From Spiritual Counter-modernism to the Neo-avant-garde
Chapter 15 Esotericism, Collectivism, Avant-Garde: Tamás Szentjóby and Béla Hamvas on the Parallel Course Study Track
Chapter 16 Occult Hungary: the Spiritual in Art in Hungary between 1945 and 1989
Chapter 17 Karel Malich’s Inner Turn: towards the Wire Plastics from 1976–1988
Chapter 18 A Selection of Metaspiritual Art Theories and Practices in Croatia, Slovenia, and Serbia in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s
Chapter 19 The Mediala Art Group and Esotericism in Communist Yugoslavia
Part 5 Towards Capitalist Esotericism
Chapter 20 The Re-enchantment of the East, or towards the Global History of the Occulture in Central-Eastern Europe during the Transition Era
Chapter 21 Mystical Materialism: Koło Klipsa as a Case Study for Spiritualization in Art
Chapter 22 Spaces for Spiritual Transformation: New Age-Inspired Architecture in Late and Post-Soviet Estonia
Back Matter
Index

Metrics

All Time Past 365 days Past 30 Days
Abstract Views 0 0 0
Full Text Views 13 13 3
PDF Views & Downloads 0 0 0

Product Information

Books

Journals

Specialty Products

Metadata: Title Lists, MARC & KBART Files

Catalogs, Flyers & Price Lists

Accessing Brill Products

Authors

Becoming a Brill Author

Publishing Ethics & AI Policy

Publishing Guides

Contact & Info

Sales Contacts

Ordering

Editorial Contacts

Press & Reviews

Contact Form

Stay Updated

Blog

News Archive

Newsletters

Social Media Overview

Investors

Resources Center

General Resources

For Authors

For Librarians

Rights & Permissions

FAQ

Terms and Conditions 

Privacy Statement 

Cookie Settings 

Accessibility

Legal Notice

Sitemap

Terms and Conditions  |  Privacy Statement  |  Cookie Settings |  Accessibility  |  Legal Notice  |  Sitemap  |  Copyright © 2016-2026

 

 

Access via:
Dar Hadith al Hassania
Powered by PubFactory
  • [216.73.216.78|92.112.192.157]
  • 92.112.192.157
Close
Edit Annotation

Character limit 500/500

@!

Character limit 500/500

Logo