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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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