What Does It Mean to Be Post-Soviet?: Decolonial Art from the Ruins of the Soviet Empire

by Madina Tlostanova

In What Does It Mean to Be Post-Soviet? Madina Tlostanova traces how contemporary post-Soviet art mediates this human condition. Observing how the concept of the happy future--which was at the core of the project of Soviet modernity--has lapsed from the post-Soviet imagination, Tlostanova shows how the possible way out of such a sense of futurelessness lies in the engagement with activist art. She interviews artists, art collectives, and writers...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822371278
• ISBN13: 9780822371274
• Release Date: July 2018
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 8.9"