Contemporary Russian Artists = Artisti Russi ContemporaneiTools Jolles, Claudio; Bulatov, Erik; Mitta, Alexander; Kabakov, Ilya; Kopystiansky, Igor; Kopystiansky, Svetlana; Leiderman, Yurii; Peppershtein, Pavel; Volkov, Sergei; Zakharov, Vadim; Crispolti, Enrico; Groys, Boris; Gambrell, Jamey; Misiano, Viktor; Sorokin, Vladimir and Perzi. Contemporary Russian Artists = Artisti Russi Contemporanei. Prato, Italy: Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, 1990.
Abstract (English)The authors discuss the changing position of Soviet artists during the late 1980s, refering to the social role of artists, the parallel histories of official and unofficial art, and the effects of the introduction of a western style art market. Includes artists' statements and interviews. Biographical notes on 12 artists. Circa 100 bibl. ref. Edit this item (login required): |