In 1989, at the tail-end of the Cold War, Das Manöver, took the phrase “the art of war” at face value. This book catalogues an art project, comprised of essays, gallery exhibitions, and site-specific sculpture, that took place in six historically strategic cities in Central and Eastern Europe: St. Gallen, Regensburg, Udine, Ljubljana, Vienna, Olomouc, and Budapest. The project uses art to explore the disatrous history of this region since the Napoleanic Wars and, conversely, strives to see how such history affects the contemporary art of the region. The book includes photodocumentation, slides, and gauzy overlays of older, placid pictures of the cityscapes that belie political history in a romantic wash.

In German and English.