TY - BOOK ID - 135431398 TI - Avant-garde museology AU - Zhilyaev, Arseniy AU - Aranda, Julieta AU - Wood, Brian Kuan AU - Vidokle, Anton AU - Fedorov, Nikolai AU - Chekrygin, Vasiliy AU - Florensky, Pavel AU - Bekhterev, Vladimir AU - Rybnikov, Nikolai AU - V-A-C Foundation PY - 2015 SN - 9781452952277 1452952272 PB - New York, NY Moscow, Russia Minneapolis, Minnesota E-flux ; Published in collaboration with V-A-C Foundation Distributed by the University of Minnesota Press. DB - UniCat KW - Museums KW - Avant-garde (Aesthetics) KW - Artists and museums KW - Modernism (Art) KW - Modernism (Art) KW - Art and history KW - Art and history KW - History KW - History KW - History UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:135431398 AB - The museum of contemporary art might be the most advanced recording device ever invented. It is a place for the storage of historical grievances and the memory of forgotten artistic experiments, social projects, or errant futures. But in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Russia, this recording device was undertaken by artists and thinkers as a site for experimentation. Arseny Zhilyaev's Avant-Garde Museology presents essays documenting the wildly encompassing progressivism of this period by figures such as Nikolai Fedorov, Aleksandr Rodchenko, Kazimir Malevich, Alexander Bogdanov, and others--many which are translated from the Russian for the first time. Here the urgent question is: How might the contents of the museum be reanimated so as to transcend even the social and physical limits imposed on humankind? ER -