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9780714837970

Ilya Kabakov

Boris Grois; David A. Ross; Ilya Kabakov; Iwona Blazwick

ISBN 10: 0714837970 / 0-7148-3797-0
ISBN 13: 9780714837970
Publisher: Phaidon Inc Ltd
Publication Date: 1998
Binding: Softcover

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After some thirty years as an 'unofficial' artist in the former Soviet Union, Ilya Kabakov first came to international recognition in the late 1980s. Now based in New York, he is considered the most important Russian artist to have emerged in the late twentieth century. His installations are often akin to theatrical mise-en-scenes, presenting a cramped communal apartment or a flooded art museum as though they are comedies on human frustration and doomed aspirations. Alternating between lighthearted irony and genuine tragedy, Kabakov evokes a shadowy world lit by a 20-watt bulb in which fable-like miracles might occur: a homespun cosmonaut may fly into space, or an ordinary radio/television aerial may spell out a poem against the sky.

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Ilya Kabakov (ISBN: 9780714837970)
Grois, Boris;Ross, David A.;Kabakov, Ilya;Blazwick, Iwona

ISBN 10: 0714837970
ISBN 13: 9780714837970

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Book Description: Phaidon. No Binding. Book Condition: New. Survey by Boris Groys, Interview by David A. Ross, Focus by Iwona Blazwick, Artist's Choice by Anton Chekhov, Writings by Ilya KabakovPaperbackEnglish290 x 250 mm, 11 3/8 x 9 7/8 in160 pp120 Illustrations couleur, 30 Illustrations noir & blancISBN-13: 9780714837970ISBN-10: 0714837970After some 30 years as an 'unofficial' artist in the Soviet Union, lIya Kabakov (b.1933) first came to international recognition in the late 1980s; now based in New York, he is considered the most important Russian artist of the late 20th centuryHis installations are akin to theatrical mises-en-scènes or comedies on human frustration and doomed aspirations, presenting, for example, a cramped communal apartment or a flooded art museumAlternating between irony and tragedy, Kabakov evokes a shadowy world in which fable-like miracles might occur: a homespun cosmonaut may fly into space or an ordinary aerial may spell out a poem against the sky. Bookseller Inventory # ABE-819

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