{"product_id":"history-becomes-form-boris-groys-9780262525084","title":"History Becomes Form: Moscow Conceptualism","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn insider's account of the art and artists of the most interesting Russian artistic phenomenon since the Russian Avant-Garde.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the 1970s and 1980s, a group of \"unofficial\" artists in Moscow--artists not recognized by the state, not covered by state-controlled media, and cut off from wider audiences--created artworks that gave artistic form to a certain historical moment: the experience of Soviet socialism. The Moscow conceptualists not only reflected and analyzed by artistic means a spectacle of Soviet life but also preserved its memory for a future that turned out to be different from the officially predicted one. They captured both the shabby austerity of everyday Soviet life and the utopian energy of Soviet culture. In \u003ci\u003eHistory Becomes Form\u003c\/i\u003e, Boris Groys offers a contemporary's account of what he calls the most interesting Russian artistic phenomenon since the Russian avant-garde.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book collects Groys's essays on Moscow conceptualism, most of them written after his emigration to the West in 1981. The individual artists of the group--including Ilya Kabakov, Lev Rubinstein, and Ivan Chuikov--became known in the West after perestroika, but until now the artistic movement as a whole has received little attention. Groys's account sheds light not only on the Moscow Conceptualists and their work but also on the dilemmas of Soviet artists during the cold war. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Boris Groys\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0262525089\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780262525084\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e MIT Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/13\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.95lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.70h x 6.70w x 0.50d","brand":"Boris Groys","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48440928272639,"sku":"9780262525084","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f7e18d3f-733f-43c6-8bc3-263cf3f26021.jpg?v=1777187598","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/history-becomes-form-boris-groys-9780262525084","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}