Russia - Art Resistance and the Conservative-Authoritarian Zeitgeist (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Jonson, Lena; Erofeev, Andrei

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores how artistic strategies of resistance have survived under the conservative-authoritarian regime which has been in place in Russia since 2012. It discusses the conditions under which artists work as aesthetics change and the state attempts to define what constitutes good taste.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 342
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351738354
• Artikelnr.: 50144824

Autorenporträt

Lena Jonson is a Senior Associate Research Fellow at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs. Andrei Erofeev is a widely published art historian, curator, and former head of the contemporary art section of the Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
Part I: The Conservative Zeitgeist and Russian Cultural Policy
2. The "Russian World", Genetically Modified Conservatism, or Why Culture
Matters
3. The New State Cultural Policy and Visual Art
4. Neo-traditional Fits with Neo-liberal Shifts in Russian Cultural Policy
since 2010
5. Daughterland [Rodina-Doch]: Contemporary Russian Messianism and
Neo-conservative Visuality
6. The Case of Hungary - a Parallel Development
Part II: The State of Affairs: Voices from the Russian Art Scene
7. Culture as the Enemy: Contemporary Russian Art under the Authoritarian
Regime
8. Voices from within the Art Scene. Interviews with Russian Artists
Part III: Artistic Counter-Strategies
9. Dissensus and "Shimmering": Tergiversation as Politics
10. Humor as a Bulletproof Vest: Artists Embracing an Ironic Zeitgeist
11. Demontage of Attractions
12. The Chto Delat School for Engaged Art and Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya
13. A Dilemma for the Contemporary Artist: "Revolutionary Pessimism" of
Roman Osminkin
14. Radical Art Actionism
15. Petr Pavlenskii and his Actions"
16. Document: Pavlenskii and Yasman: Dialogues about Art
Part IV: Theatre: A Parallel Development
17. Theatre of a Period of Archaization
18. Non-conformist Theatre in Russia: Past and Present