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Kulik is one of the most radical and profound artists. His message is universal: 'Anthropomorphism has exhausted itself'. This title catalogues his work.
Oleg Kulik, 'the Dog Man', one of the most famous artists in Russia, has achieved his dream of a 'book without text'. His critique of the baseness of civilisation and his disappointment in the failure of contemporary art to reach its potential led the artist to radically reject the 1990s' vocabulary of culture and of Logocentrism.In the language of great Russian literature, Kulik's message – a mooing and desperate wailing – would echo Leo Tolstoy's 'I cannot keep silence anymore!'Yet Kulik is deadly serious; he appeals to 'everything that lives and breathes, not via words, not via aesthetics; only the moral law inside you and the necessary decision to act are required in order to hear the suppressed voice of nature, also in yourself ... (Oleg Kulik)Includes a DVD of Oleg Kulik's performances 1991–2003.
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Over the last twenty years, reenactment has been appropriated by both contemporary artistic production and art-theoretical discourse, becoming a distinctive strategy to engage with history and memory. As a critical act of repetition, which is never neutral in reactualizing the past, it has established unconventional modes of historicization and narration. Collecting work by artists, scholars, curators, and museum administrators, the volume investigates reenactment's potential for a (re)activation of layered temporal experiences, and its value as an ongoing interpretative and political gesture performed in the present with an eye to the future. Its contributions discuss the mobilization of archives in the struggle for inclusiveness and cultural revisionism; the role of the body in the presentification and rehabilitation of past events and (impermanent) objects; the question of authenticity and originality in artistic practice, art history, as well as in museum collections and conservation practices.
This text presents documents drawn from the artistic archives of Eastern and Central Europe during the second half of the 20th century.
The lives of animals in Russia are intrinsically linked to cultural, political and psychological transformations of the imperial, Soviet, and post-Soviet eras. Other Animals examines the interaction of animals and humans in Russian literature, art, and life from the eighteenth century until the present. The chapters explore the unique nature of the Russian experience in a range of human-animal relationships through tales of cruelty, interspecies communion and compassion, and efforts to either overcome or establish the human-animal divide. Four themes run through the volume: the prevalence of animals in utopian visions; the ways in which Russians have incorporated and sometimes challenged Wes...
Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Sincerity, Memory, Marketing, Media -- 1 History: Situating Sincerity -- 2 "But I Want Sincerity So Badly!" The Perestroika Years and Onward -- 3 "I Cried Twice": Sincerity and Life in a Post-Communist World -- 4 "So New Sincerity": New Century, New Media -- Conclusion: Sincerity Dreams -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z
Drawing on visual materials (film, art, graffiti, street-art, public advertisement, memorials), the essays of this collection offer detailed views on the cultural and political dynamics that preceded and emerged in the wake of the Yugoslav conflicts of the 1990s.
The National Bolshevik Party, founded in the mid-1990s by Eduard Limonov and Aleksandr Dugin, began as an attempt to combine radically different ideologies. In the years that followed, Limonov, Dugin, and the movements they led underwent dramatic shifts. The two leaders eventually became political adversaries, with Dugin and his organizations strongly supporting Putin’s regime while Limonov and his groups became part of the liberal opposition. To illuminate the role of these right-wing ideas in contemporary Russian society, Fabrizio Fenghi examines the public pronouncements and aesthetics of this influential movement. He analyzes a diverse range of media, including novels, art exhibitions, performances, seminars, punk rock concerts, and even protest actions. His interviews with key figures reveal an attempt to create an alternative intellectual class, or a “counter-intelligensia.” This volume shows how certain forms of art can transform into political action through the creation of new languages, institutions, and modes of collective participation.