Russian Art Now

by Nailja Allachwerdijewa, Christiane Bauermeister, Konstantin Bochorow

See here the birth of a radical art laboratories of free artists, clubs, internet caf s, and galleries emerging in Russia between prefab high-rises, slums, and the turreted fortresses of the nouveau riche. Unburdened by old ideologies and metaphysical obsessions, artists in the former Soviet culture houses have been working with new media, playing with performance art, developing new strategies, and forging new representations of the self.

168 pages, Paperback

First published July 15, 2002