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BUY FROM PUBLISHER	On Art by Ilya Kabakov edited by Matthew Jesse Jackson University of Chicago Press, 2018 Paper: 978-0-226-38473-3 \| eISBN: 978-0-226-38487-0 \| Cloth: 978-0-226-38456-6 Library of Congress Classification N6999.K23A35 2018 Dewey Decimal Classification 709.47 ABOUT THIS BOOK \| AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY \| REVIEWS ABOUT THIS BOOK During the 1960s and 1970s, the Russian conceptual artist Ilya Kabakov was a galvanizing figure in Moscow's underground art community, ultimately gaining international prominence as the “leader” of a band of artists known as the Moscow Conceptual Circle. Throughout this time, he created texts that he would distribute among his friends, and by the late 1990s his written production amounted to hundreds of pages. Devoted to themes that range from the “cosmism” of pre-Revolutionary Russian modernism to the philosophical implications of Moscow’s garbage, Kabakov’s handmade booklets were typed out on paper, then stapled or sewn together using rough butcher paper for their covers. Among these writings are faux Socialist Realist verses, theoretical explorations, art historical analyses, accompaniments to installation projects, and transcripts of dialogues between the artist and literary theorists, critics, journalists, and other artists. This volume offers for the first time in English the most significant texts written by Kabakov. The writings have been expressly selected for this English-language volume and there exists no equivalent work in any language. AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY Ilya Kabakov is a conceptual artist and one of the most influential artists of the late Soviet and post-Soviet eras. His work is found in MoMA, The Guggenheim, Centre Pompidou, Tate Modern, and the Hermitage, among others. He emigrated to the West in 1987, and since has created hundreds of installations in collaboration with his wife, Emilia Kabakov. Matthew Jesse Jackson teaches art history at the University of Chicago. He is the author of The Experimental Group: Ilya Kabakov, Moscow Conceptualism, Soviet Avant-Gardes, published by the University of Chicago Press. REVIEWS “Before Ilya Kabakov was an international art star, he was the guiding genius of the unofficial Moscow art world in the waning decades of the Soviet Union. This tightly curated but expansive volume of his writings—expertly framed by Matthew Jesse Jackson—finally delivers Kabakov's brilliance and wit to the non-Russian reader. Kabakov the artist is inseparable from Kabakov the storyteller, and his early writings convey the intellectual intensity of his insular late-socialist world. The later ones—increasingly poetic or even incantational—return to familiar themes from the perspective of the émigré, yielding new insights about the ever-colonialist expectations of the Western art world.” — Christina Kiaer In Russia, Ilya Kabakov is regarded as the greatest living Russian artist. Internationally he is known as one of the most important representatives of installation art. However, this book shows Kabakov as an acute observer of the Russian and international art scene. Kabakov’s essays collected here shed light on art practices long overshadowed by the political conflicts of recent decades. — Boris Groys Art, to Kabakov, is something you risk your life for, because art—when it is true—holds a place for the emergent. In this spirit, Kabakov not at all paradoxically has said, ‘The artist must paint an open book.’ In bringing us this volume, Matthew Jackson has performed a crucial service. Here, the two are partners in discourse. This much shows on every surprising, beautiful page. — Darby English See other books on: Art, Modern \| Art, Russian \| Contemporary (1945-) \| Criticism & Theory \| Installations (Art) See other titles from University of Chicago Press

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“Before Ilya Kabakov was an international art star, he was the guiding genius of the unofficial Moscow art world in the waning decades of the Soviet Union. This tightly curated but expansive volume of his writings—expertly framed by Matthew Jesse Jackson—finally delivers Kabakov's brilliance and wit to the non-Russian reader. Kabakov the artist is inseparable from Kabakov the storyteller, and his early writings convey the intellectual intensity of his insular late-socialist world. The later ones—increasingly poetic or even incantational—return to familiar themes from the perspective of the émigré, yielding new insights about the ever-colonialist expectations of the Western art world.”

— Christina Kiaer

In Russia, Ilya Kabakov is regarded as the greatest living Russian artist. Internationally he is known as one of the most important representatives of installation art. However, this book shows Kabakov as an acute observer of the Russian and international art scene. Kabakov’s essays collected here shed light on art practices long overshadowed by the political conflicts of recent decades.

— Boris Groys

Art, to Kabakov, is something you risk your life for, because art—when it is true—holds a place for the emergent. In this spirit, Kabakov not at all paradoxically has said, ‘The artist must paint an open book.’ In bringing us this volume, Matthew Jackson has performed a crucial service. Here, the two are partners in discourse. This much shows on every surprising, beautiful page.

— Darby English