Museum of Proletarian Culture: Industrialization of Bohemians - Softcover

Zhilyaev, Arseniy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 8831716352 ISBN 13: 9788831716352

Publisher: Marsilio, 2014

Synopsis

Try and imagine what a museum of creativity looks like. This book tells of a challenging exhibition held in one of the major Russian museums-the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow. Arseniy Zhilyaev created a conceptual project for an imaginary museum. The viewer sees into the future after the liberation/revolution and is confronted with a radically different outlook on the history of twentieth-century art. At the core of the exhibition, there turns out to be a complex dialectic in the relationship between museum and artist: how does an artist's work come to be exhibited in a museum? When and why does an artist engage in artistic creation outside the museum walls? Is the museum the space in which a "happening" takes place? The book includes texts by Russian and foreign art critics as well as a number of previously untranslated Soviet avant-garde texts about museums and proletarian folklore.

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About the Author:

Arseniy Zhilyaev is an artist, curator, and political activist. He graduated from the Institute of Contemporary Art in Moscow in 2007. Editor of the Moscow Art Magazine, he is a member of the Russian Socialist Movement.

About this edition

• Publisher: Marsilio
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 8831716352
• ISBN 13: 9788831716352
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 96