
The Museological Unconscious
Communal (Post)Modernism in Russia
Victor Tupitsyn(Author)
MIT Press
Published on 1. May 2009
Book
Hardback
352 pages
978-0-262-20173-5 (ISBN)
Description
The history of contemporary art in Russia, from socialist realism to the post-Soviet alternative art scene.In The Museological Unconscious, Victor Tupitsyn views the history of Russian contemporary art through a distinctly Russian lens, a "communal optic" that registers the influence of such characteristically Russian phenomena as communal living, communal perception, and communal speech practices. This way of looking at the subject allows him to gather together a range of artists and art movements-from socialist realism to its "dangerous supplement," sots art, and from alternative photography to feminism-as if they were tenants in a large Moscow apartment.Describing the notion of "communal optics," Tupitsyn argues that socialist realism does not work without communal perception-which, as he notes, does not easily fit into crates when paintings travel out of Russia for exhibition in Kassel or New York. Russian artists, critics, and art historians, having lived for decades in a society that ignored or suppressed avant-garde art, have compensated, Tupitsyn claims, by developing a "museological unconscious"-the "museification" of the inner world and the collective psyche.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge, Mass.
United States
Publishing group
MIT Press Ltd
Target group
Adult education
Interest Age: From 18 years
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
90 s/w Abbildungen
90 b&w illus.
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 203 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
1293 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-262-20173-5 (9780262201735)
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Persons
Victor Tupitsyn is a critic and theorist living in New York and Paris. He is on the advisory board of Third Text, London.