Ilya Kabakov: The Red Wagon

by Boris Groys, Ilya Kabakov

This book extensively documents Russian-American Ilya Kabakov's Red Wagon project through the artist's sketches and installation photographs. The intricate wooden construction is a work that has been conceived as a poetic allegory of artists' hopes, unrealized dreams and the demise of the former Soviet Union.

158 pages, Hardcover

First published March 15, 2005

About the author

Boris Efimovich Groys (born 19 March 1947) is an art critic, media theorist, and philosopher. He is currently a Global Distinguished Professor of Russian and Slavic Studies at New York University and Senior Research Fellow at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design in Karlsruhe, Germany. He has been a professor of Aesthetics, Art History, and Media Theory at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design/Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe and an internationally acclaimed Professor at a number of universities in the United States and Europe, including the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Southern California and the Courtauld Institute of Art London.