A highly accessible text grounded in social theory and in new the recent politics of transition.
Explains the history of Soviet art and how post-Soviet art has been shaped artistically and socially.
Highlights the challenges globalization poses for the broader recognition of art in Russia
The study of transitional politics makes for a poignant classroom supplement in courses on art and society, social aspects of art, the politics of art, Russian Studies, and many other courses.
Elise Herrala teaches in the Department of Humanistic Studies at the Maryland Institute College of Art. She holds a doctorate in sociology from the University of California, Berkeley.
Title: Art of Transition: The Field of Art in Post-Soviet Russia
Author: Herrala, Elise
ISBN: 9780367086862
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Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Publication Date: 2021-12-31
Number of Pages: 190
Weight: 0.2901 kg
Elise Herrala brings us a brilliant account of Post-Soviet art, prostrate before an anti-Soviet Western critique and a strangulating state, and left to depend on the precarious growth of markets, connecting painters, galleries and collectors. A radiant ethnography, Art of Transition shows, despite marginality, that Russian contemporary art exhibits an outlandish originality and ironic commentary on the cultural dilemmas of the transition from communism to capitalism.
Michael Burawoy, University of California, Berkeley