Ekaterina Degot, Vadim Zakharov (eds.): Moscow Conceptualism (2005) [Russian]

“This book collects more than 150 works of twenty leading artists and groups of Moscow conceptual circle, including Ilya Kabakov, Andrey Monastyrsky, Komar & Melamid, Inspection Medical Hermeneutic, and many others. Many installations, art objects and documentations of performances are published for the first time.”

Essays by Vadim Zakharov, Ekaterina Degot, Andrey Monastyrsky, Boris Groys, a.o.
Works by Yuri Albert, Nikita Alexeev, Sergey Anufriev, Ivan Chuikov, Collective Actions Group, Donskoy–Roshal–Skersis Group, Ilya Kabakov, Yuri Leiderman, Igor Makarevich & Elena Elagina, Inspection Medical Hermeneutics, Komar & Melamid, Andrey Monastyrsky, Sabina Hänsgen & Andrey Monastyrsky, Mukhomor Group, Nikolay Panitkov, Pavel Pepperstein, Victor Pivovarov, Dmitry Prigov, Lev Rubinstein, SZ Group, Vadim Zakharov.

Moskovskii kontseptualizm, a special issue of the World Art Музей (WAM) journal, 15/16
Publisher WAM, Moscow, 2005
ISSN 1726-3050
415 pages
via Conceptualism-Moscow.org

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Victor Tupitsyn: The Museological Unconscious: Communal (Post)Modernism in Russia (2009)

“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.”

With an Introduction by Susan Buck-Morss and Victor Tupitsyn
Publisher MIT Press, 2009
ISBN 0262201739, 9780262201735
x+341 pages

Reviews: Raoul Eshelman (ArtMargins 2009), Gillian McIver (a-n 2009), Alexander Etkind (Russian Review 2010), Sven Spieker (Slavic Review 2010), Lara Weibgen (ArtJournal 2011).

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The Art Strike Papers: The Years Without Art / Neoist Manifestos (1991)

Two works bound together back to back.

“The Art Strike Papers is a substantial collection of material produced in response to the Art Strike 1990-93. It is made up entirely of pieces which have appeared since the publication of The Art Strike Hand­book in April 1989. Featuring James Mannox, Stewart Home, Sadie Plant, Nik Houghton, Mr Jones, &c.”

“The bulk of the manifestos and poems collected in Stewart Home’s Neoist Manifestos were first published in 1984/5. The manifestos were revised by the author in 1987, additional modifications were made to the text in 1989. This selection was then edited by Simon Strong for AK Press in 1991.”

Publisher AK Press, Stirling, UK, 1991
ISBN 1873176155, 9781873176153
52 & 44 pages
via x

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Neoist Manifestos: PDF, HTML