Der Text als Grundlage des Visuellen / The Text as the Basis of Visual Expression

This comprehensive overview of Ilya Kabakov's installation work of the 1990s contains over 100 images across more than 400 pages, and includes Kabakov's own commentary on his works. Ilya Kabakov was born in Dnepropetrovsk, Soviet Union, in 1933; he left the country in 1984 and now lives and works in New York and Paris. Kabakov is widely regarded as the greatest contemporary Russian artist, and has received the Joseph Beuys prize and the Chevalier of Fine Arts Medal from the French ministry of culture.

Born in Dnepopetrovsk, USSR, in 1933, Ilya Kabakov graduated from the V. A. Surikov Art Academy, Moscow, in 1957, and joined the Soviet Artists' Union in 1965. After winning numerous prizes for his art all over the world and on both sides of the Iron Curtain--particularly after the late-80s onset of perestroika allowed him to build a career in the West--Kabakov settled in New York in 1992, where he continues to live and work, along with his wife, Emilia.