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 |
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“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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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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