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Book SynopsisAssembles 13 key essays in art history and cultural theory by Russian-language writers. The essays erase boundaries between high and low, official and dissident, avant-garde and socialist realism. Everything visual is deemed worthy of analysis, from painting to architecture.
Table of ContentsForeword, Stephen Bann Object, Space, Culture: Introduction, Alla Efimova and Lev Manovich 1 The Study of Ideologies and Philosophy of Language, V. N. Voloshinov 2 Yermolova, Sergei Eisenstein 3 The Spacial Form of a Character, Mikhail Bakhtin 4 Painting and the Language of Theater: Notes on the Problem of Iconic Rhetoric, Yury Lotman 5 Movement--Immobility, Vladimir Paperny 6 Sots-Art, Zinovy Zinik 7 Public and Artist in Russia at the Turn of the Twentieth Century, Grigory Sternin 8 Stalinism as Aesthetic Phenomenon, Boris Groys 9 Transparency Painting: From Myth to Theater, Mikhail Yampolsky 10 Things and Words: Toward a Lyrical Museum, Mikhail Epshtein 11 The Ropes of Ilya Kabakov: An Experiment in Interpretation of a Conceptual Installation, Alexander Rappaport 12 Mass Celebrations in a Totalitarian System, Alexander Zakharov 13 Paper Architecture in the Age of the French Revolution, Gennady Revzin
