Russia Art Resistance and the Conservative-Authoritarian Zeitgeist
This book explores how artistic strategies of resistance have survived under the conservative-authoritarian regime which has been in place in Russia since 2012. It discusses the conditions under which artists work as aesthetics change and the state attempts to define what constitutes good taste. It examines the approaches artists are adopting to resist state oppression and to question the present system and attitudes to art. The book addresses a wide range of issues related to these themes, considers the work of individual artists and includes some discussion of contemporary theatre as well as the visual arts.
Lena Jonson is Associate Professor and a Senior Associate Research Fellow at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs.
Andrei Erofeev is a widely published art historian, curator, and former head of the contemporary art section of the Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia.
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Contents
Lena Jonson
Ilya Kalinin
Lena Jonson
Alexander Bikbov
Maria Engstrm
Eszter Babarczy
Andrei Erofeev
Andrei Erofeev and Irina Kochergina
Daniil Leiderman
Helena Goscilo
Stanislav Shuripa and Anna Titova
Jonathan Brooks Platt
Mark Lipovetsky
Andrei Erofeev
Per-Arne Bodin
Petr Pavlenskii and Pavel Yasman
Pavel Rudnev
Kristina Matvienko
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Eszter Babarczy is Assistant Professor of Media and Cultural Studies, Moholy-Nagy University of Art, Budapest. Since training as a cultural historian and a philosopher in Budapest and New York, she has worked as an academic and journalist/editor. Publications include hundreds of essays and diverse political commentary in the Hungarian- and English-language media over the past thirty years.
Alexander Bikbov is Professor and Deputy Head of the Centre for Contemporary Philosophy and Social Sciences at the Philosophy Faculty, Moscow State University. He is also Associate Scholar at the Centre Maurice Halbwachs in Paris, and editor of the interdisciplinary Russian journal, Logos. His most recent book is Grammar of Order: A Historical Sociology of the Concepts That Change Our Reality (in Russian, 2014).
Per-Arne Bodin is Professor Emeritus of Slavic languages and literatures at Stockholm University. Among his latest publications are Language, Canonization and Holy Foolishness. Studies in Postsoviet Russian Culture and the Orthodox Tradition (Stockholm Slavic Studies, 38, 2009) and Eternity and Time: Studies in Russian Literature and the Orthodox Tradition (Stockholm University, 2007).
Maria Engstrm is Associate Professor at Dalarna University. Among her publications are numerous articles and essays on topics related to contemporary Russian literature and culture, the Orthodox Church and Russian politics, the post-Soviet right-wing intellectual environment, post-Soviet conservatism in art and politics, Russian utopianism and Soviet science fiction, the Russian language and the new media.
Andrei Erofeev is an art historian, curator and former head of the contemporary art section at the Tretyakov Gallery (20028). Erofeev regularly contributes articles to Russian art magazines and journals. He curated several of the internationally best-known Russian art exhibitions in Russia and abroad, such as In Complete Disorder, The Kandinsky Award, 20072012 (Barcelona, 2012); Sots Art: Political Art in Russia (Moscow, 2007); Russian Pop Art (Moscow, 2005) and Forbidden Art (Moscow, 2007). During his twenty years at Russian museums Erofeev created the first state collection of Russian contemporary art for a future national contemporary art museum.
Helena Goscilo is Professor at the Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures, Ohio State University. Among her areas of expertise are Russian culture in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, visual culture (art, graphics, film), film adaption, gender, Russian folklore, the Russian novel and Bakhtin. Her most recent books include Celebrity and Glamour in Putins Russia: Shocking Chic (2012); Putin as Celebrity and Cultural Icon
