This is the first comprehensive monograph on an important contemporary artist, one who has come to represent the Russian avant-garde in the post-Stalinist era much in the way that Joseph Beuys was a stimulus for European art after World War II. In her fascinating text, Amei Wallach draws on extensive research and interviews with Kabakov and his circle over the past eight years, and puts the work in the context of the artist's life and the social, historical, cultural, and political forces that have shaped it - from his ...
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This is the first comprehensive monograph on an important contemporary artist, one who has come to represent the Russian avant-garde in the post-Stalinist era much in the way that Joseph Beuys was a stimulus for European art after World War II. In her fascinating text, Amei Wallach draws on extensive research and interviews with Kabakov and his circle over the past eight years, and puts the work in the context of the artist's life and the social, historical, cultural, and political forces that have shaped it - from his boyhood during Stalin's regime, to his obligatory career as a children's book illustrator in the official Artists' Union, to his involvement in Moscow's furtive and fertile underground avant-garde of artists and writers, to his more recent travels in the international art circuit. This groundbreaking volume also includes an introduction by Robert Storr, a curator in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and commentaries by the artist himself that accompany the 290 illustrations, including paintings, drawings, albums, and sketches and photographs of installations.
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USED Very Good. Very Good Jacket. ART SCULPTURE SIGNED Inscribed by the author Amei Wallach on the half title page minor scuffing on the back panel of the dj.
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Fine in very good dust jacket. Large Hardcover w/Dustjacket, no writing, marks or tears, little discernable cover or corner wear, no remainder marks, not withdrawn library. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. 255 p. Audience: General/trade.
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First edition. 320x240mm 255 pages with index. 70 color 220 black and white illustrations. Cloth. Fine in dustjacket. Through installations, albums and paintings, Ilya Kabakov-called the "father of Moscow conceptualism"-translates the experience of Soviet life into universal metaphors for the human condition. Wallach's monograph features Kabakov's own commentaries as well as actual texts of the installations.
