Egle Rake (Rakauskaite) A Lithuanian Case Study of Art in the Globalisation Age

Gabiia Purlyte
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2014
BA

Subject: Video art, Performance, Installation and Media
Country: Lithuania
Period: 21st Century

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This dissertation presents the work of contemporary Lithuanian artist

Egle Rake (Rakauskaite) in the context of globalisation. Rake’s work is exemplary of Lithuanian art of the last twenty years which exhibited dramatic changes since the breakup of the Soviet Union. In opposition to the conservative, essentially modernist conception of art held by their immediate predecessors, the generation of emerging artists embraced previously unseen media such as performance, installation and video art. They also engaged closely with the current issues in their society. Using Rake’s oeuvre as a case study, the aim is to show that contemporary art cannot be adequately understood without taking into account both the local and global contexts. The phenomenon of globalisation itself can only be examined from particular, situated perspectives.

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Egle Rake (Rakauskaite) A Lithuanian Case Study of Art in the Globalisation Age