Atvirumo paradigma ir liberalizmo idėjų sklaida 10-ojo dešimtmečio Lietuvos šiuolaikiniame mene
The paradigm of openness and liberal ideas in the Lithuanian contemporary art in the 1990s

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with the political and ideological context of the 1990s, the spread of ideas of cultural liberalism and its impact on the culture at the time. The aim of the article is to define the concept of openness as one of the main discourses in the Lithuanian contemporary art of the 1990s by revealing a complex political and cultural meaning of openness and its relation to the liberal ideology and identifying its manifestations in the processes and phenomenon of contemporary art in Lithuania. The main topic of the article is based on the concept that ideas of cultural liberalism which were popular among a significant part of intellectuals were also important to Lithuanian artists. The manifestation of institutional decentralisation, democratisation of public space, opening of the concept of art and critique of closed were visible both in common processes and directly expressed in the artworks of that time.

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