History Becomes Form by Boris Groys - ISBN: 9780262525084
Paperback
An insider’s account of the art and artists of the most interesting Russian artistic phenomenon since the Russian Avant-Garde.

History Becomes Form

Moscow Conceptualism

  • Paperback

    208 pages

  • Release Date

    13 September 2013

Summary

An insider’s account of the art and artists of the most interesting Russian artistic phenomenon since the Russian Avant-Garde.In the 1970s and 1980s, a group of “unofficial” artists in Moscow-artists not recognized by the state, not covered by state-controlled media, and cut off from wider audiences-created artworks that gave artistic form to a certain historical moment- the experience of Soviet socialism. The Moscow conceptualists not only reflected and analyzed by artistic means a spectacle…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780262525084
ISBN-10:0262525089
Author:Boris Groys
Publisher:MIT Press Ltd
Imprint:MIT Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:208
Release Date:13 September 2013
Weight:445g
Dimensions:229mm x 178mm x 10mm
Series:History Becomes Form
What They're Saying

Critics Review

“Human history, clumsy and inarticulate, is crystallized here into clearconcepts, brilliant statements, and razor-sharp intellectual paradoxes.” Artforum

Human history, clumsy and inarticulate, is crystallized here into clear concepts, brilliant statements, and razor-sharp intellectual paradoxes.

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About The Author

Boris Groys

Boris Groys is an art critic, media theorist, and philosopher. He is Global Distinguished Professor of Russian and Slavic Studies at New York University and Professor of Philosophy at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland. He is the author of Art Power, History Becomes Form- Moscow Conceptualism (both published by the MIT Press), and other books.

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