Avant-Garde Museology : e-flux classics (Paperback)
Avant-Garde Museology : e-flux classics (Paperback)
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Arseny Zhilyaev

Avant-Garde Museology : e-flux classics (Paperback)

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The museum of contemporary art might be the most advanced recording device ever invented. It is a place for the storage of historical grievances and the memory of forgotten artistic experiments, social projects, or errant futures. But in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Russia, this recording device was undertaken by artists and thinkers as a site for experimentation.

Arseny Zhilyaev’s Avant-Garde Museology presents essays documenting the wildly encompassing progressivism of this period by figures such as Nikolai Fedorov, Aleksandr Rodchenko, Kazimir Malevich, Alexander Bogdanov, and others—many which are translated from the Russian for the first time. Here the urgent question is: How might the contents of the museum be reanimated so as to transcend even the social and physical limits imposed on humankind?

Contributors: David Arkin; Vladimir Bekhterev; Alexander Bogdanov; Osip Brik; Vasiliy Chekrygin; Leonid Chetyrkin; Nikolai Druzhinin; Nikolai Fedorov; Pavel Florensky; R. N. Frumkina; M. S. Ilkovskiy; V. I. Karmilov; V. Karpov; Valentin Kholtsov; P. N. Khrapov; Yuriy Kogan; Natalya Kovalenskaya; Nadezhda Krupskaya; S. P. Lebedyansky; A. F. Levitsky; Vera Leykina (Leykina-Svirskaya); Ivan Luppol; Kazimir Malevich; Andrey Platonov; Nikolay Punin; Aleksandr Rodchenko; Yuriy Samarin; I. F. Sheremet; Andrey Shestakov; Natan Shneerson; Ivan Skulenko; M. Vorobiev; N. Vorontsovsky; Boris Zavadovsky; I. M. Zykov. 

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Oct 13, 2015
Bishop
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Indispensable anthology--at last!

”At last, Anglophone readers have a chance to access the key texts of early twentieth-century Russian museology: from the eccentric futuristic visions of Fedorov and Bogdanov, to the revolutionary avant-garde (Rodchenko and Punin), and groundbreaking experiments at the Tretyakov Gallery and Antireligious Museum in the 1930s. Zhilyaev has assembled an indispensable anthology that offers a vivid and timely alternative to overfamiliar Western exhibition histories. Curatorial students looking for radical models—start here!” — Claire Bishop, Professor of Art History at The Graduate Center, City University of New York

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fascinating, alternative story of the museum

“At their different stages, Soviet museums were places for artistic experimentation, for formulating social and political projects, and for ideological struggle. But they were never merely places for neutral aesthetic contemplation and the canonization of the past, as they were in the West. Arseny Zhilyaev's comprehensive reader on Soviet museum history tells this fascinating, alternative story of the museum in the twentieth century for the first time—a story that, until now, has been virtually unknown to the international public.“ — Boris Groys, Global Distinguished Professor of Russian and Slavic Studies at New York University and Senior Research Fellow at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design

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