The Mitki and the Art of Postmodern Protest in Russia

by Alexandar Mihailovic

Book Overview

During the late Soviet period, the art collective known as the Mitki emerged in Leningrad. Producing satirical poetry and prose, pop music, cinema, and conceptual performance art, this group fashioned a playful, emphatically countercultural identity with affinities to European avant-garde and American hippie movements.

More broadly, Alexandar Mihailovic shows, the Mitki pioneered a form of political protest art that has since become a centerpiece...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299314944
• ISBN13: 9780299314941
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"