Arseny Zhilyaev (Editor)
Avant-Garde Museology: E-Flux Classics
- ISBN 13:
- 9780816699193
- author:
- Arseny Zhilyaev (Editor)
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2015
- Pages:
- 576
- Dimensions:
- 13 x 4.6 x 19.7 cm
- Genre:
- Art, Architecture & Photography, Criticism & Theory,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
Avant-Garde Museology E-Flux Classics presents a unique collection of essays from late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Russia, exploring the progressive ideas of artists and thinkers.
Translated into English for the first time, these works showcase the experimental approach to art and social projects that defined this period. The contributors, including prominent figures such as Kazimir Malevich and Alexander Bogdanov, offer insights into how the contents of a museum might be reanimated to transcend human limitations.
Edited by Arseniy Zhilyaev, this collection provides a valuable window into the wildly encompassing progressivism of this era, shedding light on the intersection of art, theory, and social experimentation.