Ilia Iosifovich Kabakov

Ilya Kabakov: The Man Who Never Threw Anything Away

Ilia Iosifovich Kabakov; Amei Wallach

Synopsis:
Ilya Kabakov is the first monologue on this compelling and influential Soviet artist, whose work is a sardonic commentary on the manias, contradictions, and absurdities of life in an oppressive society. Drawing on extensive research with Kabakov and his circle, author Amei Wallach places the work in the context of the artists life and the social, cultural, and political forces that have shaped it, from his boyhood during Stalins regime, to his obligatory career as a childrens book illustrator, to his involvement in Moscow's furtive and fertile underground avant-garde, to his more recent years on the international art circuit. Commentaries by the artist himself accompany the nearly 300 illustrations, which include drawings, paintings, albums, paperworks, sketches, and photographs of installations in situ.

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