The Mitki and the Art of Postmodern Protest in Russia by Mihailovic, Alexandar

The Mitki and the Art of Postmodern Protest in Russia (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780299314903)

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The Mitki and the Art of Postmodern Protest in Russia by Mihailovic, Alexandar

The Mitki and the Art of Postmodern Protest in Russia

$79.95
The Mitki and the Art of Postmodern Protest in Russia by Mihailovic, Alexandar

The Mitki and the Art of Postmodern Protest in Russia

$79.95
Format: Hardcover
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During the late Soviet period, the art collective known as the Mitki emerged in Leningrad. Producing satirical poetry and prose, pop music, cinema, and conceptual performance art, this group fashioned a playful, emphatically countercultural identity with affinities to European avant-garde and American hippie movements.

More broadly, Alexandar Mihailovic shows, the Mitki pioneered a form of political protest art that has since become a centerpiece of activism in post-Soviet Russia, most visibly today in groups such as Pussy Riot. He draws on extensive interviews with members of the collective and illuminates their critique of the authoritarian state, militarism, and social strictures from the Brezhnev years to the present.

Author: Alexandar Mihailovic
ISBN-10: 0299314901
ISBN-13: 9780299314903
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Language: English
Published: 02/27/2018
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.80d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 08/01/2018
By Alexandar Mihailovic
By Alexandar Mihailovic
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Alexandar Mihailovic is a professor emeritus of comparative literature and Russian at Hofstra University and visiting professor of Slavic studies at Brown University. His books include Corporeal Words: Mikhail Bakhtin's Theology of Discourse; an edited volume, Tchaikovsky and His Contemporaries; and a coedited book, Navid Kermani: Contemporary German Writers.

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