Contemporary Painting in Russia
Author: Ekaterina Degotʹ
Publisher: Fine Art Publishing
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Describes the new directions in Russian painting since the demise of the Communist regime.
Lanterna Rally
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Cosmic Shift
Author: Ilya Kabakov
Publisher: Zed Books Ltd.
Published: 2017-10-05
Total Pages: 542
ISBN-13: 1786993279
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A TLS Book of the Year 2017 In this, the first anthology of Russian contemporary art writing to be published outside Russia, many of the country’s most prominent contemporary artists, writers, philosophers, curators and historians come together to examine the region’s contemporary art, culture and and theory. With contributions from Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, Boris Groys, Dmitri Prigov, Anton Vidokle, Keti Chukhrov, Oxana Timofeeva, Pavel Pepperstein, Arseny Zhilyaev and Masha Sumnina amongst many others, this definitive collection reveals a compelling portrait of a vibrant and complex culture: one built on a contradicting dialectic between the material and the ideal, and battling its own histories and ideologies.
An Alternative History of Art
Author: Ilʹi︠a︡ Iosifovich Kabakov
Publisher:
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This catalogue presents the artwork of three fictitious Russian artists, all inventions of Ilya Kabakov, and intervviews of Ilya Kabakov.
Contemporary Russian Art
Author: Matthew Cullerne Bown
Publisher: Phaidon Press
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 136
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The author discusses how Russian art has evolved from icon painting through to Socialist Realism. He examines the work of approximately 50 contemporary artists, all of whom are living and working in the Soviet Union and conveys a general view of life in the USSR.
Frozen Dreams
Author: Ekaterina A. Bobrinskai︠a︡
Publisher:
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780500977064
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book is the first comprehensive survey of contemporary art from Russia. It presents a selection of more than eighty Russian artists working from the 1970's into the early 2000's. It features more than 580 colour illustrations, interviews with collectors, in-depth profiles of artists and three essays by leading scholars.
Exhibition of Contemporary Art of Soviet Russia
Author: Amtorg Trading Corporation
Publisher:
Published: 1929
Total Pages: 88
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Russian and Soviet Views of Modern Western Art, 1890s to Mid-1930s
Author: Ilia Dorontchenkov
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2009-06-10
Total Pages: 364
ISBN-13: 0520253728
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →From the first Modernist exhibitions in the late 1890s to the Soviet rupture with the West in the mid-1930s, Russian artists and writers came into wide contact with modern European art and ideas. Introducing a wealth of little-known material set in an illuminating interpretive context, this sourcebook presents Russian and Soviet views of Western art during this critical period of cultural transformation. The writings document complex responses to these works and ideas before the Russians lost contact with them almost entirely. Many of these writings have been unavailable to foreign readers and, until recently, were not widely known even to Russian scholars. Both an important reference and a valuable resource for classrooms, the book includes an introductory essay and shorter introductions to the individual sections.
Museum of Proletarian Culture
Author: Arseniy Zhilyaev
Publisher: Marsilio
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9788831716352
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Try and imagine what a museum of creativity looks like. This book tells of a challenging exhibition held in one of the major Russian museums-the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow. Arseniy Zhilyaev created a conceptual project for an imaginary museum. The viewer sees into the future after the liberation/revolution and is confronted with a radically different outlook on the history of twentieth-century art. At the core of the exhibition, there turns out to be a complex dialectic in the relationship between museum and artist: how does an artist's work come to be exhibited in a museum? When and why does an artist engage in artistic creation outside the museum walls? Is the museum the space in which a "happening" takes place? The book includes texts by Russian and foreign art critics as well as a number of previously untranslated Soviet avant-garde texts about museums and proletarian folklore.
Art of Transition
Author: Elise Herrala
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-12-31
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 0429659601
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The dissolution of the Soviet Union brought a massive change in every domain of life, particularly in the cultural sector, where artists were suddenly "free" from party-mandated modes of representation and now could promote and sell their work globally. But in Russia, the encounter with Western art markets was fraught. The Russian field of art still remains on the periphery of the international art world, struggling for legitimacy in the eyes of foreign experts and collectors. This book examines the challenges Russian art world actors faced in building a field of art in a society undergoing rapid and significant economic, political, and social transformation and traces those challenges into the twenty-first century. Drawing on historical and ethnographic research, Art of Transition traces the ways the field of art has developed, evolved, and been sustained in Russia after socialism. It shows how Russia’s art world has grappled with its Soviet past and negotiated its standing in an unequal, globalized present. By attending to the historical legacy of Russian art throughout the twentieth century, this book constructs a genealogy of the contemporary field of postsocialist art that illuminates how Russians have come to understand themselves and their place in the world.
The Museological Unconscious
Author: Victor Tupitsyn
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 353
ISBN-13: 0262201739
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The history of contemporary art in Russia, from socialist realism to the post-Soviet alternative art scene. In The Museological Unconscious, Victor Tupitsyn views the history of Russian contemporary art through a distinctly Russian lens, a "communal optic" that registers the influence of such characteristically Russian phenomena as communal living, communal perception, and communal speech practices. This way of looking at the subject allows him to gather together a range of artists and art movements--from socialist realism to its "dangerous supplement," sots art, and from alternative photography to feminism--as if they were tenants in a large Moscow apartment. Describing the notion of "communal optics," Tupitsyn argues that socialist realism does not work without communal perception--which, as he notes, does not easily fit into crates when paintings travel out of Russia for exhibition in Kassel or New York. Russian artists, critics, and art historians, having lived for decades in a society that ignored or suppressed avant-garde art, have compensated, Tupitsyn claims, by developing a "museological unconscious"--the "museification" of the inner world and the collective psyche.
