MoMA's International Program was responsible for the publication of Primary Documents: A Sourcebook for Eastern and Central European Art since the 1950s, the first collection of English-language documents on modern art drawn directly from the artistic archives of Eastern and Central Europe. Compiled by Laura Hoptman and Tomáš Pospiszyl and featuring the writings of Tadeusz Kantor, Komar and Melamid, Slavoj Žižek, and many others, this important volume serves as an introduction to the region's major artistic and critical movements during the latter half of the twentieth century.

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On March 11, 2003, The International Program and MoMA's Department of Education co-organized a public panel discussion, entitled "East of Art: Transformations in Eastern Europe," at MoMA Gramercy in Manhattan. Marking the publication of Primary Documents and moderated by the book's editors, the roundtable discussion included several prominent artists and critics whose writings are featured in the book, including Boris Groys, Professor of Philosophy and Media Theory, Academy for Design, Karlsruhe, Germany, and Rector, Vienna Academy of Fine Arts; Katarzyna Kozyra, artist, Warsaw; Bojana Pejiç, art historian and curator, Berlin and Belgrade; Slavoj Žižek, cultural critic and philosopher, and Senior Researcher, Institute for Sociology, University of Ljublana, Slovenia; and Roger L. Conover, executive editor of The MIT Press, the book's distributor, who served as respondent.