by Gerald Janecek
Northwestern University Press, 2019
Cloth: 978-0-8101-3902-2 | eISBN: 978-0-8101-3903-9 | Paper: 978-0-8101-3901-5
Library of Congress Classification PG3064.E94J36 2019
Dewey Decimal Classification 981.714409

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ABOUT THIS BOOK
 
Innovative poets such as Vsevolod Nekrasov, Lev Rubinstein, and Dmitry Prigov are among the most prominent literary figures of Russia in the 1980s and 1990s, yet they are virtually unknown outside Russia. The same is true of the numerous active Russian performance art groups, especially the pioneering Collective Actions group led by the brilliantly inventive Andrei Monastyrsky. Everything Has Already Been Written strives to make Moscow Conceptualism more accessible, to break the language barrier and to foster understanding among an international readership by thoroughly discussing a broad range of specific works and theories. Janecek’s study is the first comprehensive analysis of Moscow Conceptualist poetry and theory, vital for an understanding of Russian culture in the post‑Conceptualist era.