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This book addresses late-Soviet and post-Soviet art in Armenia in the context of turbulent transformations from the late 1980s to 2004. It explores the emergence of 'contemporary art' in Armenia from within and in opposition to the practices, aesthetics and institutions of Socialist Realism and National Modernism. This historical study outlines the politics (liberal democracy), aesthetics (autonomous art secured by the gesture of the individual artist), and ethics (ideals of absolute freedom and radical individualism) of contemporary art in Armenia and points towards its limitations. Through the historical investigation, a theory of post-Soviet art historiography is developed, one that is based on a dialectic of rupture and continuity in relation to the Soviet past. As the first English-language study on contemporary art in Armenia, the book is of prime interest for artists, scholars, curators and critics interested in post-Soviet art and culture and in global art historiography.

Politics and government. --- Avant-garde (Aesthetics) --- Art --- Art, Armenian. --- Art, Armenian --- Aesthetics --- Modernism (Art) --- Armenian art --- Art and politics --- Politics and art --- Art, Occidental --- Art, Visual --- Art, Western (Western countries) --- Arts, Fine --- Arts, Visual --- Fine arts --- Iconography --- Occidental art --- Visual arts --- Western art (Western countries) --- Arts --- Political aspects. --- Political aspects --- History --- 1900-1999 --- Asia --- Armenia (Republic) --- Asian and Pacific Council countries --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Eurasia --- Armeneja (Republic) --- Arménie (Republic) --- Armenii︠a︡ (Republic) --- Armīniyā (Republic) --- Armīnyā (Republic) --- Ermänistan (Republic) --- Ermänistan Respublikası --- Ermenia (Republic) --- Ermenija (Republic) --- Haikakan Hanrapetoutioun --- Hayastan (Republic) --- Hayastani Hanrapetutʻyun --- HH --- Jumhūrīyah al-Armīniyah --- Jumhūrīyat Armīnyā --- Republic of Armenia --- Rèpublica d'Armènie --- Republiek van Armenië --- Republik Armenii︠a︡ --- Republika Armenii︠a︡ --- Republika Ermenija --- République arménienne --- Respublika Armenii︠a︡ --- T︠S︡ḣamukhʺ (Republic) --- Армения (Republic) --- Арменія (Republic) --- Рэспубліка Арменія --- Република Армения --- ЦIамухъ (Republic) --- أرمينيا (Republic) --- جمهورية الأرمينية --- Armenia --- Armenian S.S.R. --- Art, Primitive --- Armenii͡a (Republic) --- Jumhūrīyat Armīny --- Republiek van Armeni --- Republik Armenii͡ --- Republika Armenii͡ --- Respublika Armenii͡ --- T͡Sḣamukhʺ (Republic) --- Aĭastan --- Greater Armenia --- Hayasdan --- Hayastan --- Haykʻ Metskʻ --- Mets Haykʻ --- aesthetics. --- autonomy. --- avant-garde. --- continuity. --- late Soviet. --- liberal democracy. --- post-Soviet. --- rupture. --- 'contemporary art'. --- 'painterly real'.