A compelling study of unofficial postwar Soviet art, The
Experimental Group takes as its point of departure a subject of
strange fascination: the life and work of renowned professional
illustrator and conceptual artist Ilya Kabakov. Kabakov's
art-iconoclastic installations, paintings, illustrations, and
texts-delicately experiments with such issues as history,
mortality, and disappearance, and here exemplifies a much larger
narrative about the work of the artists who rose to prominence just
as the Soviet Union began to disintegrate. By placing Kabakov and
his conceptualist peers in line with our own contemporary
perspective, Matthew Jesse Jackson suggests that the art that
emerged in the wake of Stalin belongs neither entirely to its lost
communist past nor to a future free from socialist nostalgia.
Instead, these artists and their work produced a critical and
controversial chapter in the as yet unwritten history of global
contemporary art.
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