A Fruitful Asymmetry (A Precise Book on Cultural Exchange
across the Iron Curtain) Cover Image

A Fruitful Asymmetry (A Precise Book on Cultural Exchange across the Iron Curtain)
A Fruitful Asymmetry (A Precise Book on Cultural Exchange across the Iron Curtain)

Author(s): Soňa Mikulová
Subject(s): Review
Published by: AV ČR - Akademie věd České republiky - Ústav pro soudobé dějiny

Summary/Abstract: Lizcová, Zuzana: Kulturní vztahy mezi ČSSR a SRN v 60. letech 20. století [Cultural Relations between the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic and West Germany in the1960s]. Praha, Dokořán – Fakulta sociálních věd Univerzity Karlovy, 2012, 194 pp. The book under review discusses cultural and cultural-political developments in Czechoslovakia and the Federal Republic of Germany from the end of the Second World War to the beginning of the 1970s, with the main focus on the 1960's. In the spirit of new political history and new cultural history, the author explores the role of high level politics and social groups outside the state structures, mainly the creators and consumers of cultural products that became an object of exchange between Czechoslovakia and the Federal Republic. The book also casts light on how these processes and events were commented on in contemporary press, and seeks to provide an overall picture of the expressions of culture in the political, social, and economic climates in both countries. Main emphasis is put on film and the fine arts, and particularly on the extraordinary importance of mutual cultural exchanges between the two countries at a time when no diplomatic relations existed between them.

  • Issue Year: III/2015
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 217-222
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: English