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Ilya Kabakov S U P E R F I C T I O N S Ilya Kabakov Russian artist who appears in most major contemporary exhibitions such as the documenta, the Venice Biennale, and the Sydney Biennale. . Ilya Kabakov S U P E R F I C T I O N S Ilya Kabakov Russian artist who appears in most major contemporary exhibitions such as the documenta, the Venice Biennale, and the Sydney Biennale. .. |
. Full text search Excerpts Subject catalogs Subject index Series indexShopping cart contents or Print an order form. 00tx 0-226-95124-3 Fall 1993 Fascinated by the myth of the Russian avant-garde and scornful of official art, the West has been selective in its engagement with Russian visual culture. Yet how do contemporary Russian scholars and critics themselves approach the history of visual culture in the former Soviet Union. Taking its title from a Russian word that can refer to the 'texture" of life, painting, or writing, this anthology assembles thirteen key essays in art history and cultural theory by Russian-language writers.
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They were the first to proclaim their independence from and disagreement with the authorities and the predominant ideology. Many of the artists in this collection are represented in the current exhibition of Jewish Soviet artists in The New York Jewish Museum. Numerous articles have been written about the Lili Brochetain Collection including one by John Bowlt (USC professor and top Western historian of Russian art) in the February 1994 edition of ARTnews. Special thanks to Alexander Eidelman who made all photographs. . |
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Recent theories of culture related to the psychoanalytic writings of Jacques Lacan will be useful in examining how the symbolic order (the film text) tries but ultimately fails to reconstitute this lost object. . Like postmodernism in the West, Russian postmodernism can be understood in the context of the mistrust of grand narratives and the resulting breakdown of the unified, autonomous voice that would construct and articulate such a narrative. The last years of the Soviet Union were a particularly difficult period for traditional narrative both in and about culture. The linearity of time itself was disrupted by the simultaneous return of so many banned works at the same time that younger writers, artists, and directors began openly experimenting with new forms and the entire cultural heritage came under reexamination. |
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