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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.

"Here, as always, Mr. Kabakov's art--by turns comic, chilling and purposefuly stressful--offers no answers, only poignant intuitions about the vulnerability of human life."

Siri Huntoon, New York Times Book Review

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