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Focusing on the work Bourke-White made in the 1930s and 40s in Czechoslovakia, Germany, Italy, the Soviet Union and the U.K., Moments in History presents 150 classic photographs alongside revelatory extracts from letters and publications in periodicals.
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Focusing on the work Bourke-White made in the 1930s and 40s in Czechoslovakia, Germany, Italy, the Soviet Union and the U.K., Moments in History presents 150 classic photographs alongside revelatory extracts from letters and publications in periodicals.
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Margaret Bourke-White : moments in history
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Focusing on the work Bourke-White made in the 1930s and 40s in Czechoslovakia, Germany, Italy, the Soviet Union and the U.K., Moments in History presents 150 classic photographs alongside revelatory extracts from letters and publications in periodicals.
Margaret Bourke-White : moments in history
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Focusing on the work Bourke-White made in the 1930s and 40s in Czechoslovakia, Germany, Italy, the Soviet Union and the U.K., Moments in History presents 150 classic photographs alongside revelatory extracts from letters and publications in periodicals.
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March 2013
March 2013
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Photography monographs
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A rising star in the Russian literary firmament Pelevin, winner of the 1993 Russian Booker Prize for short stories, has written a parody of life under Communism refracted through the prism of the Soviet space program. This clever parable about a young cosmonaut ordered to make the ultimate sacrifice? Killing himself after secretly piloting a supposedly unmanned lunar(...)
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A rising star in the Russian literary firmament Pelevin, winner of the 1993 Russian Booker Prize for short stories, has written a parody of life under Communism refracted through the prism of the Soviet space program. This clever parable about a young cosmonaut ordered to make the ultimate sacrifice? Killing himself after secretly piloting a supposedly unmanned lunar(...)
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Omon Ra
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A rising star in the Russian literary firmament Pelevin, winner of the 1993 Russian Booker Prize for short stories, has written a parody of life under Communism refracted through the prism of the Soviet space program. This clever parable about a young cosmonaut ordered to make the ultimate sacrifice? Killing himself after secretly piloting a supposedly unmanned lunar expedition? is sprinkled with throwaway gags, absurdist humor and wickedly ironic touches, as well as with the eerie beauty of space exploration. Obsessed with space travel since early childhood, Omon Krivomazov identifies with Ra, the ancient Egyptian falcon-headed sun god, a fixation that reflects his desire to escape the gray conformity of Soviet life and his yearning for a soul. Omon learns that more than 100 of his fellow cosmonauts have already been sacrificed as guinea pigs after taking part in supposedly automated, manless launches. Pelevin portrays the Russian space program as a vast propaganda enterprise, a distraction to paper over the tawdriness and fear of everyday life. Many allusions will be lost on American readers. And, in light of the truth-is-stranger-than-fiction state of contemporary Russian society, some of the Soviet-era satire seems oddly tame.
Omon Ra
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A rising star in the Russian literary firmament Pelevin, winner of the 1993 Russian Booker Prize for short stories, has written a parody of life under Communism refracted through the prism of the Soviet space program. This clever parable about a young cosmonaut ordered to make the ultimate sacrifice? Killing himself after secretly piloting a supposedly unmanned lunar expedition? is sprinkled with throwaway gags, absurdist humor and wickedly ironic touches, as well as with the eerie beauty of space exploration. Obsessed with space travel since early childhood, Omon Krivomazov identifies with Ra, the ancient Egyptian falcon-headed sun god, a fixation that reflects his desire to escape the gray conformity of Soviet life and his yearning for a soul. Omon learns that more than 100 of his fellow cosmonauts have already been sacrificed as guinea pigs after taking part in supposedly automated, manless launches. Pelevin portrays the Russian space program as a vast propaganda enterprise, a distraction to paper over the tawdriness and fear of everyday life. Many allusions will be lost on American readers. And, in light of the truth-is-stranger-than-fiction state of contemporary Russian society, some of the Soviet-era satire seems oddly tame.
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February 1998
February 1998
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Architecture and the imaginary
Architecture and the imaginary
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Restricted Areas brings together the results from a nine year project looking at some of the key military bases in Eastern Germany that lie abandoned following the fall of the Iron Curtain and withdrawal of the Soviet Armed forces.
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Restricted Areas brings together the results from a nine year project looking at some of the key military bases in Eastern Germany that lie abandoned following the fall of the Iron Curtain and withdrawal of the Soviet Armed forces.
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Chaosophy: texts and interviews 1972-1977
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Restricted Areas brings together the results from a nine year project looking at some of the key military bases in Eastern Germany that lie abandoned following the fall of the Iron Curtain and withdrawal of the Soviet Armed forces.
Chaosophy: texts and interviews 1972-1977
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Restricted Areas brings together the results from a nine year project looking at some of the key military bases in Eastern Germany that lie abandoned following the fall of the Iron Curtain and withdrawal of the Soviet Armed forces.
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September 2008, Los Angales
September 2008, Los Angales
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Critical Theory
Critical Theory
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Restricted Areas brings together the results from a nine year project looking at some of the key military bases in Eastern Germany that lie abandoned following the fall of the Iron Curtain and withdrawal of the Soviet Armed forces.
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Restricted Areas brings together the results from a nine year project looking at some of the key military bases in Eastern Germany that lie abandoned following the fall of the Iron Curtain and withdrawal of the Soviet Armed forces.
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January 2008, Manchester
January 2008, Manchester
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Angus Boulton: restricted areas
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Restricted Areas brings together the results from a nine year project looking at some of the key military bases in Eastern Germany that lie abandoned following the fall of the Iron Curtain and withdrawal of the Soviet Armed forces.
Angus Boulton: restricted areas
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Restricted Areas brings together the results from a nine year project looking at some of the key military bases in Eastern Germany that lie abandoned following the fall of the Iron Curtain and withdrawal of the Soviet Armed forces.
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January 2008, Manchester
January 2008, Manchester
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Similar to the rest of the world, holidays and leisure spaces emerged as a trend in Estonia in the early 20th century. During the Soviet era, holiday-making became a universal right, and the state promoted its development in various forms. This book offers a first overview of the rich legacy of Estonian holiday and summer cottage architecture. While focusing on the most(...)
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Similar to the rest of the world, holidays and leisure spaces emerged as a trend in Estonia in the early 20th century. During the Soviet era, holiday-making became a universal right, and the state promoted its development in various forms. This book offers a first overview of the rich legacy of Estonian holiday and summer cottage architecture. While focusing on the most(...)
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Leisure spaces: holiday and architecture in 20th century Estonia
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Similar to the rest of the world, holidays and leisure spaces emerged as a trend in Estonia in the early 20th century. During the Soviet era, holiday-making became a universal right, and the state promoted its development in various forms. This book offers a first overview of the rich legacy of Estonian holiday and summer cottage architecture. While focusing on the most common building types which helped make holidays available to a large part of the population, the book also explores the meaning of leisure time in the late Soviet society. A fascinating look at how the boundaries between public and private space, austerity and material well-being, were closely interwoven.
Leisure spaces: holiday and architecture in 20th century Estonia
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Similar to the rest of the world, holidays and leisure spaces emerged as a trend in Estonia in the early 20th century. During the Soviet era, holiday-making became a universal right, and the state promoted its development in various forms. This book offers a first overview of the rich legacy of Estonian holiday and summer cottage architecture. While focusing on the most common building types which helped make holidays available to a large part of the population, the book also explores the meaning of leisure time in the late Soviet society. A fascinating look at how the boundaries between public and private space, austerity and material well-being, were closely interwoven.
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December 2020
December 2020
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Architecture since 1900, Europe
Architecture since 1900, Europe
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Including 4-col. Russian folktale in inside cover. Drafting Defeat is a collection of highly stylized 10th century maps of the Middle East with the legends that accompanied them in a 1933 Soviet edition of Nasser Khosrows Safarnameh (Book of Travels).
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Including 4-col. Russian folktale in inside cover. Drafting Defeat is a collection of highly stylized 10th century maps of the Middle East with the legends that accompanied them in a 1933 Soviet edition of Nasser Khosrows Safarnameh (Book of Travels).
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Drafting defeat: 10th century road maps & 21st century disasters
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Including 4-col. Russian folktale in inside cover. Drafting Defeat is a collection of highly stylized 10th century maps of the Middle East with the legends that accompanied them in a 1933 Soviet edition of Nasser Khosrows Safarnameh (Book of Travels).
Drafting defeat: 10th century road maps & 21st century disasters
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Including 4-col. Russian folktale in inside cover. Drafting Defeat is a collection of highly stylized 10th century maps of the Middle East with the legends that accompanied them in a 1933 Soviet edition of Nasser Khosrows Safarnameh (Book of Travels).
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October 2007, Moscow/Amsterdam
October 2007, Moscow/Amsterdam
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Architectural Drawing
Architectural Drawing
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This publication accompanying the Chilean contribution to the Venice Biennale 2014 documents a milestone of modern architecture: an original concrete panel produced for prefab housing, donated to Chile in 1971 by the Soviet Union, and later the subject of much controversy.
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This publication accompanying the Chilean contribution to the Venice Biennale 2014 documents a milestone of modern architecture: an original concrete panel produced for prefab housing, donated to Chile in 1971 by the Soviet Union, and later the subject of much controversy.
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Monolith controversies: Chile National Pavilion, Biennale Architettura 2014
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This publication accompanying the Chilean contribution to the Venice Biennale 2014 documents a milestone of modern architecture: an original concrete panel produced for prefab housing, donated to Chile in 1971 by the Soviet Union, and later the subject of much controversy.
Monolith controversies: Chile National Pavilion, Biennale Architettura 2014
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This publication accompanying the Chilean contribution to the Venice Biennale 2014 documents a milestone of modern architecture: an original concrete panel produced for prefab housing, donated to Chile in 1971 by the Soviet Union, and later the subject of much controversy.
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August 2014
August 2014
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Contemporary Architecture
Contemporary Architecture
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Art and production
Art and production
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Boris Arvatov's ''Art and Production'' is a classic of the early Soviet avant-garde. Now nearing a century since its first publication, it is a crucial intervention for those seeking to understand the social dynamic of art and revolution during the period.
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Boris Arvatov's ''Art and Production'' is a classic of the early Soviet avant-garde. Now nearing a century since its first publication, it is a crucial intervention for those seeking to understand the social dynamic of art and revolution during the period.
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Art and production
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Boris Arvatov's ''Art and Production'' is a classic of the early Soviet avant-garde. Now nearing a century since its first publication, it is a crucial intervention for those seeking to understand the social dynamic of art and revolution during the period.
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Boris Arvatov's ''Art and Production'' is a classic of the early Soviet avant-garde. Now nearing a century since its first publication, it is a crucial intervention for those seeking to understand the social dynamic of art and revolution during the period.
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November 2017
November 2017
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Art Theory
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This book contains hightlights from Russian artist Vladimir Arkhipov's collection of unique artifacts. Objects made by ordinary Russians inspired by a lack of immediate access to manufactured goods during the collapse of the Soviet Union. The archive includes hundreds of objects created with often idiosyncratic functional qualities made for both inside and outside the(...)
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This book contains hightlights from Russian artist Vladimir Arkhipov's collection of unique artifacts. Objects made by ordinary Russians inspired by a lack of immediate access to manufactured goods during the collapse of the Soviet Union. The archive includes hundreds of objects created with often idiosyncratic functional qualities made for both inside and outside the(...)
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Home-Made: contemporary russian folk atifacts
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This book contains hightlights from Russian artist Vladimir Arkhipov's collection of unique artifacts. Objects made by ordinary Russians inspired by a lack of immediate access to manufactured goods during the collapse of the Soviet Union. The archive includes hundreds of objects created with often idiosyncratic functional qualities made for both inside and outside the home, such as a tiny bathtub plug carefully fashioned from a boot heel; a back massager made from an old wooden abacus; a road sign used as a street cleaner's shovel; and a doormat made from beer bottle tops. Featuring over 220 individuals artifeacts of Soviet culture, each accompanied by a photograph of the creator, their story of how the object came about, its function and the materials used to create it.
Home-Made: contemporary russian folk atifacts
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This book contains hightlights from Russian artist Vladimir Arkhipov's collection of unique artifacts. Objects made by ordinary Russians inspired by a lack of immediate access to manufactured goods during the collapse of the Soviet Union. The archive includes hundreds of objects created with often idiosyncratic functional qualities made for both inside and outside the home, such as a tiny bathtub plug carefully fashioned from a boot heel; a back massager made from an old wooden abacus; a road sign used as a street cleaner's shovel; and a doormat made from beer bottle tops. Featuring over 220 individuals artifeacts of Soviet culture, each accompanied by a photograph of the creator, their story of how the object came about, its function and the materials used to create it.
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June 2006, London
June 2006, London
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Interior Design
Interior Design
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The fictitious hero of this 1984 installation is a lonely dreamer who develops an impossible project: to fly alone in cosmic space. But this dream is also an individual appropriation of a collective Soviet project and the official Soviet propaganda connected to it. Having built a makeshift slingshot, the hero apparently flies through the ceiling of his shabby room and(...)
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The fictitious hero of this 1984 installation is a lonely dreamer who develops an impossible project: to fly alone in cosmic space. But this dream is also an individual appropriation of a collective Soviet project and the official Soviet propaganda connected to it. Having built a makeshift slingshot, the hero apparently flies through the ceiling of his shabby room and(...)
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Ilka Kabakov: the man who flew into space from his apartment
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The fictitious hero of this 1984 installation is a lonely dreamer who develops an impossible project: to fly alone in cosmic space. But this dream is also an individual appropriation of a collective Soviet project and the official Soviet propaganda connected to it. Having built a makeshift slingshot, the hero apparently flies through the ceiling of his shabby room and vanishes into space. The miserable room and the primitive slingshot suggest the reality behind the Soviet utopia, in which where cosmic vision and the political project of the Communist revolution are seen as indissoluble. The Man who Flew into Space from His Apartment also raises questions of authorship in modernity. All of Kabakov's work is made in the name of other, fictitious artists. This reveals a hidden rule of the modern art system: only an artist who doesn't want to be an artist or who doesn't even know that he is an artist is a real artist—just as only an artwork that does not look like an artwork is a real artwork. The installation is a narrative, the documentation of a fictitious event. Boris Groys is Professor of Philosophy and Art Theory at the Academy for Design in Karlsruhe, Germany, and Global Professor at New York University.
Ilka Kabakov: the man who flew into space from his apartment
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The fictitious hero of this 1984 installation is a lonely dreamer who develops an impossible project: to fly alone in cosmic space. But this dream is also an individual appropriation of a collective Soviet project and the official Soviet propaganda connected to it. Having built a makeshift slingshot, the hero apparently flies through the ceiling of his shabby room and vanishes into space. The miserable room and the primitive slingshot suggest the reality behind the Soviet utopia, in which where cosmic vision and the political project of the Communist revolution are seen as indissoluble. The Man who Flew into Space from His Apartment also raises questions of authorship in modernity. All of Kabakov's work is made in the name of other, fictitious artists. This reveals a hidden rule of the modern art system: only an artist who doesn't want to be an artist or who doesn't even know that he is an artist is a real artist—just as only an artwork that does not look like an artwork is a real artwork. The installation is a narrative, the documentation of a fictitious event. Boris Groys is Professor of Philosophy and Art Theory at the Academy for Design in Karlsruhe, Germany, and Global Professor at New York University.
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May 2006, London
May 2006, London
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Art Theory
Art Theory
