Russia - Art Resistance and the Conservative-Authoritarian Zeitgeist

ISBN-13: 9780367886578 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 328 str.

Lena Jonson; Andrei Erofeev

Opis

This book explores how artistic strategies of resistance have survived under the conservative-authoritarian regime which has been in place in Russia since 2012. It discusses the conditions under which artists work as aesthetics change and the state attempts to define what constitutes good taste.

Recenzje

Shortlisted for the 2021 Kandinsky Art Prize, in the the section for books on art.　

Spis treści

1. Introduction

Part I: The Conservative Zeitgeist and Russian Cultural Policy

2. The "Russian World", Genetically Modified Conservatism, or Why Culture Matters

3. The New State Cultural Policy and Visual Art

4. Neo-traditional Fits with Neo-liberal Shifts in Russian Cultural Policy since 2010

5. Daughterland [Rodina-Doch]: Contemporary Russian Messianism and Neo-conservative Visuality

6. The Case of Hungary - a Parallel Development

Part II: The State of Affairs: Voices from the Russian Art Scene

7. Culture as the Enemy: Contemporary Russian Art under the Authoritarian Regime

8. Voices from within the Art Scene. Interviews with Russian Artists

Part III: Artistic Counter-Strategies

9. Dissensus and "Shimmering": Tergiversation as Politics

10. Humor as a Bulletproof Vest: Artists Embracing an Ironic Zeitgeist

11. Demontage of Attractions

12. The Chto Delat School for Engaged Art and Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya

13. A Dilemma for the Contemporary Artist: "Revolutionary Pessimism" of Roman Osminkin

14. Radical Art Actionism

15. Petr Pavlenskii and his Actions"

16. Document: Pavlenskii and Yasman: Dialogues about Art

Part IV: Theatre: A Parallel Development

17. Theatre of a Period of Archaization

18. Non-conformist Theatre in Russia: Past and Present

 

O autorze

Lena Jonson is a Senior Associate Research Fellow at the Swedish Institute of

International Affairs.

Andrei Erofeev is a widely published art historian, curator, and former head

of the contemporary art section of the Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia.