Ilya Kabakov: The Man Who Flew Into Space from His Apartment

by Boris Groys

An illustrated study of one of Ilya Kabakov's most fantastic installations.

The fictitious hero of this 1984 installation is a lonely dreamer who develops an impossible project: to fly alone in cosmic space. But this dream is also an individual appropriation of a collective Soviet project and the official Soviet propaganda connected to it. Having built a makeshift slingshot, the hero apparently flies through the ceiling of his shabby...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1846380049
• ISBN13: 9781846380044
• Release Date: May 2006
• Publisher: Afterall Books
• Length: 56 Pages
• Weight: 0.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 8.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher