Moskiewski konceptualizm - między awangardą a postmodernizmem
The Moscov Conceptualism - between avangarde and postmodernism

Summary/Abstract: The Moscov Conceptualism was one of the famous phenomena of non-official art. It showedemptiness of soviet paintings, literature, art. The Moscow underground was connected by the samefeeling and need to change the soviet language poisoned by demagogy of politicians, by the falsityof official slogans and literature. It entered two influential styles in non-formal culture of the1970s and 1980s. First of them was concentrated on a visual art and used term "soc-art" connectedwith series of paintings by Vitaly Komar and Alexander Malamid. It compared material formsof soviet ideology (posters, slogans, graphic art) with the profusion of Western commercial advertisingproducts and pop art.The second circle of artists was concentrated near Ilya Kabakov and included not onlypainters but also great writers like Dmitry Prigov, Lev Rubinstein and Vladimir Sorokin, who usedto deconstruct typical socrealistic literature by showing her absurd. This trend was called MoscowConceptualism and was in many points connected with traditions of avant-garde art, especiallyfuturism and OBERIU.

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