This book focuses on the overlap of art and everyday life post-cold war. It investigates what happens when theories of art from the former East and West collide, parsing the work of Soviet bloc artists alongside their western counterparts. The authors conclude that the liberation of the West fell prey to global conflict and high-risk situations.

Chapter 1: 'From Shamed to Famed - The Transition of a Former Eastern German Arts Academy to the Talent Hotbed of a Contemporary Painter's School. The Hochschule fur Grafik und Buchkunst, Leipzig' - Page 9 - Sophie A. Gerlach Chapter 2: 'Attacking Objectification: Jerry Beres in Dialogue with Marcel Duchamp' - Page 21 - Klara Kemp-Welch Chapter 3: 'On the Ruins of a Utopia: Armernian Avant-Garde and the Group Act' - Page 33 - Angela Harutyunyan Chapter 4: 'Art Communities, Public Spaces and Colective Actions in Armenian Contemporary Art' - Page 43 - Vardan Azatyan Chapter 5: 'Appropriating the Ex-Cold War' - Page 55 - Malcolm Miles Chapter 6: 'The End of an Idea: On Art, Horizons and the Post-Socialist Condition' - Page 67 - Simon Sheikh Chapter 7: 'Exploring Critiical and Political Art in the United Kingdom and Serbia' - Page 77 - Sophie Hope & Marko Stamenkovic Chapter 8: 'Other Landscapes (for Weimar, Goethe and Schiller)' - Page 89 - Daniela Brasil Chapter 9: 'The Ecology of Post-Socialism and the Implications of Sustainability for Contemporary Art' - Page 101 - Maja Fowkes and Reuben Fowkes Chapter 10: 'Functions, Functionalism and Functionlessness: On the Social Function of Public Art after Modernism' - Page 113 - Freee Art Collective