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Artguide s.r.o. Andrei Monastyrski. Kashira Highway
Andrei Monastyrski's semi-autobiographical novel Kashira Highway is set in the early 1980s and tells the story of an artist's nervous breakdown, juxtaposing the gray world of Brezhnev-era Moscow and the lurid landscape of the protagonist's imagination. Translated by Andrew Bromfield and with new illustrations by Pavel Pepperstein.
£15.00
Artguide s.r.o. Memories of Yerevan
Memories of Yerevan is a richly illustrated exploration of one of the world's oldest continually inhabited cities. Yerevan dates back to 782 BCE. This book brings together the work of twenty authors, each of whom is an expert in their field. It is an accessible look at the history and culture of Armenia through the story of its capital. In 301 CE, Armenia was the first country to adopt Christianity as an official religion. Memories of Yerevan provides a detailed description of the religious life of the country as seen through its unique churches and its written heritage, including the precious documents kept in the Matenadaran in Yerevan, the world's largest repository of Armenian manuscripts. As well as ancient history, the book explores the key period of the early 20th century, when Yerevan became the capital of Armenia and the country had a brief period of independence from colonial rule. In 1920, the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic was formed. Memories of Yerevan records the changes that then took place in the city, including the creation of its unique early Soviet buildings and the stories of the Yerevan-based architects who designed them. Memories of Yerevan will appeal to a wide range of readers, from those already familiar with Armenia, its capital, and its people to those who are reading about the beautiful city of Yerevan for the first time.
£35.99
Artguide s.r.o. Yuri Avvakumov. Paper Architecture. An Anthology
The traditions of paper architecture derive from French and Italian designs of the eighteenth century and avant-garde projects produced in the Soviet Union in the 1920s and 1930s. The latter were denounced at the time for their detachment from reality, practice, and ideology, which made them unsuitable for promoting the building of socialism In the early 1980s, a group of students at Moscow Architectural Institute found a way around the censor and began sending entries to Japanese ideas competitions. They immediately started winning. Yuri Avvakumov was one of the key figures in the paper architecture movement of the time and amassed a large collection of works by his friends and colleagues. As well as an introductory essay by Avvakumov, the book includes a selection of press cuttings, many of which are translated to English for the first time. Paper Architecture. An Anthology was first published in Russian in 2019. It won The Art Newspaper Russia Book of the Year award.
£45.00
Artguide s.r.o. Critical Mass - Moscow Art Magazine 1993-2017
With the launch of Moscow Art Magazine in 1993, curator and critic Viktor Misiano gave readers access to a rich variety of theory, criticism, and artists' texts by Russian and international writers. It is the only independent art journal in Russia which has weathered they country's economic crises and continued to publish innovative, and at times challenging, writing on visual art up to the present day.Critical Mass: Moscow Art Magazine 1993-2017 is published to mark the 100th issue of the magazine and presents a selection of texts, which cover the development of Russian art since the break-up of the Soviet Union. Arranged thematically, they range from the hopeful manifestos of the early 1990s to the angry, politically-engaged art of the 2010s. Misiano, who received the Igor Zabel Award for Culture and Theory in 2016, has written new introductions to the themes covered in the book, setting the original texts within the social and political context of their time. A critical chronology marks important events in the cultural life of Russia connected to criticism and art theory, such as the first translations of key international texts.
£27.00
Artguide s.r.o. Viktor Pivovarov. The Agent in Love
The Agent in Love is more than an autobiography. In telling the story of his life in Moscow and Prague, and his renewed relationship with Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union, artist Viktor Pivovarov plunges the reader into the rich cultural life of the artistic underground which existed behind the Iron Curtain in the 1960s and 1970s. First published in Russian in 2001, and then by Garage Museum in 2016 in an expanded edition, The Agent in Love has now been translated to English by Andrew Bromfield.
£15.00
Artguide s.r.o. Proof - Francisco Goya, Sergei Eisenstein, Robert Longo
Featuring works by Francisco Goya, Sergei Eisenstein and Robert Longo, Proof offers insight into the singularity of vision through which artists can reflect the social, cultural and political complexities of their times. Spanning eras and continents, each of these artists witnessed the turbulent transition from one century to another, experiencing the seismic impacts of revolution, civil rights movements and war. While Goya served church and king, Eisenstein the state, and Longo emerged during the rise of the contemporary art market--the dominant benefactors of each period--they all rose to prominence through developing nuanced practices that challenged expectations. With commissioned essays by journalist, activist and author Chris Hedges, artist Vadim Zakharov and Garage Chief Curator Kate Fowle, plus an interview with Longo, this book is published to accompany the exhibition of the same name.
£40.49
