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Artists in the Soviet Union faced a difficult choice: either join the official academies and make art that conformed to the state’s aesthetic and ideological dictates, or attempt to develop alternative artistic practices and spheres for exhibiting their work. In the early 1970s, conceptual artists Ilya Kabakov and Viktor Pivovarov chose the latter option, turning their limited resources into an asset by pioneering an entirely new artistic genre: the album. Somewhere between drawings and novels, Kabakov and Pivovarov’s albums were also the basis for unique performance pieces, as the artists invited select audiences to their Moscow apartments for private readings and viewings of the albums, helping to cultivate an alternative artistic community in the process. This exhibition catalog brings together Kabakov and Pivovarov’s key works for the first time, putting the two artists in dialogue and recreating their artistic community. It not only includes nearly hundred pages of full-color illustrations, but also provides complete English translations of the Russian texts that appear in the volume, plus new interviews with each artist. Taken together, they give viewers a new appreciation of the different aesthetic strategies each artist used to depict the absurdities of everyday life in the Soviet era. Published in partnership with the Zimmerli Museum.

Dissident art --- Non-social-realist art --- Soviet unofficial art --- Kabakov, Ilʹi︠a︡ Iosifovich, --- Pivovarov, Viktor --- Пивоваров, Виктор --- Pivovarov, Victor --- Pivovarov, V. --- Пивоваров, В. --- Pivovarov, Viktor Dmitrievich --- Пивоваров, Виктор Дмитриевич --- Кабаков, Илья Иосифович, --- Kabakov, Ilya Iossifovich, --- Kabakov, Ilja, --- Kabakow, Ilja Jossifowitsch, --- Кошелев, Степан Яковлевич, --- Koshelev, Stepan I︠A︡kovlevich, --- Soviet Union, Zimmerli Museum, Ilya Kabakov, Viktor Pivovarov, Ksenia Nouril, Tomáš Glanc, Art, Music, Architecture, Russian, Politics, Artists, art historian, the Bruce Museum, Critical Anthology, Eastern Europe, Central Europe, Post-1989.

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Literary theory flourished in Central and Eastern Europe throughout the twentieth century, but its relation to Western literary scholarship is complex. This book sheds light on the entangled histories of exchange and influence both within the region known as Central and Eastern Europe, and between the region and the West. The exchange of ideas between scholars in the East and West was facilitated by both personal and institutional relations, both official and informal encounters. For the longest time, however, intellectual exchange was thwarted by political tensions that led to large parts of Central and Eastern Europe being isolated from the West. A few literary theories nevertheless made it into Western scholarly discourses via exiled scholars. Some of these scholars, such as Mikhail Bakhtin, become widely known in the West and their thought was transposed onto new, Western cultural contexts; others, such as Ol’ga Freidenberg, were barely noticed outside of Russian and Poland. This volume draws attention to the schools, circles, and concepts that shaped the development of theory in Central and Eastern Europe as well as the histoire croisée – the history of translations, transformations, and migrations – that conditioned its relationship with the West.

LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Eastern (see also Russian & Former Soviet Union). --- Mikhail Bakhtin. --- Russian formalism. --- Structuralism and Semiotics. --- Yuri Lotman.