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What Is to Be Done?
Addressing a century of change from late nineteenth-century realism to late 1970s Sots Art, this volume presents new research on how art making, criticism, and promotion responded dynamically to the fast-moving social, cultural, and political contexts of the Russian Empire and Soviet Union. Case studies of artists reveal how figures such as Viktor Vasnetsov and Kazimir Malevich [Kazymyr Malevych] incorporated contemporary debates into their artworks and expanded their visual expressiveness. Analyses of writings by Wassily Kandinsky and Nikolai Punin illustrate the central role played by critics, theorists, and artists' societies in catalyzing new approaches. Lastly, essays focusing on the So...
Concerning the Spiritual—and the Concrete—in Kandinsky’s Art
This book examines the art and writings of Wassily Kandinsky, who is widely regarded as one of the first artists to produce non-representational paintings. Crucial to an understanding of Kandinsky's intentions is On the Spiritual in Art, the celebrated essay he published in 1911. Where most scholars have taken its repeated references to "spirit" as signaling quasi-religious or mystical concerns, Florman argues instead that Kandinsky's primary frame of reference was G.W.F. Hegel's Aesthetics, in which art had similarly been presented as a vehicle for the developing self-consciousness of spirit (or Geist, in German). In addition to close readings of Kandinsky's writings, the book also includes...
History Becomes Form
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 not only reflected and analyzed by artistic means a spectacle of Soviet life but also preserved its memory for a future that turned out to be different from the officially predicted one. They captured both the shabby austerity of everyday Soviet life and ...
The Future Envelope 1
Challenges the market and creates discussions on the basis of concrete material. This book also focuses on non technological topics. It discusses items such as issues of strategy and the analysis of customer desires and demands.
History of Photography
The fourth volume in a history of photography, this is a bibliography of books on the subject.
Stieglitz and His Artists
A master photographer, Alfred Stieglitz was also a visionary promoter and avid collector of modern American and European art from the first half of the 20th century. This book is the first fully-illustrated catalogue of works in the unparalleled 'Alfred Stieglitz Collection', which was given to the Metropolitan Museum after Stieglitz's death.
Dialogues
This exhibition catalog brings together key works by Russian conceptualists Ilya Kabakov and Viktor Pivovarov, whose art depicted the absurdities of everyday life in the Soviet era. It not only includes nearly 100 pages of full-color illustrations, but also provides complete English translations of the texts that appear in the volume, plus new interviews with each artist. Published in partnership with the Zimmerli Museum.
Style and Seduction
Explores the central role of Jewish patrons as shapers of Viennese modernism
Field of Stars
El hilo conductor de cENTER lo conforman veinte vitrinas, dispuestas en forma de espiral, que contienen una selección de la extensa producción de publicaciones diseñadas por el artista desde 1965 hasta la actualidad. Tal como toda su obra, sus libros desafían categorías. La obra impresa, a diferencia de otros trabajos del artista, suele llevarse a cabo en estrecha colaboración con otros artistas, poetas o escritores. La exposición se completa con dos series de pequeños cuadros llenos de luz.
Pavel Pepperstein and guests
Edited by Matthias Haldemann. Essays by Boris Groys, Ilya Kabakov, and Viktor Mazin.
