History Becomes Form: Moscow Conceptualism

by Boris Groys, Theo, Rajshri, et al.

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262014238
• ISBN13: 9780262014236
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.2" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher