One of the seminal visual artists of his generation in Eastern Europe, in recent years Ion Grigorescu’s complex body of work has attracted increasing attention in the West. This volume is the second of his translated diaries—the first from 1970 to 1975 was published in 2014—and is assembled like a small literary and art-historical sensation of the period between 1976 and 1979.

This book is the first comprehensive monograph of the highly accomplished Albanian artist Edi Hila. His vast oeuvre, long overlooked, describes the political and social transformations of Eastern Europe over the last half century—its paradigm shifts, the pitfalls and temptations of consumerism, changes in visual culture—in a way that is markedly different from the familiar strains of pop banalism.