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  | | On the New by Boris Groys, G. M. Goshgarian Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 2014 by Verso ISBN-13: 978-1-78168-292-0, ISBN: 1-78168-292-5 ""On the New" looks at the economies of exchange and valuation that drive modern culture's key sites: the intellectual marketplace and the archive. As ideas move from one context to another, newness is created. This continuous shifting of the line that separates the valuable from the worthless, culture from profanity, is at the center of Boris Groys's investigation which aims to map the uncharted territory of what constitutes artistic in ..." |
 | | Art Power (The MIT Press) by Boris Groys Paperback, 200 Pages, Published 2013 by The Mit Press ISBN-13: 978-0-262-51868-0, ISBN: 0-262-51868-6 "Art has its own power in the world, and is as much a force in the power play of global politics today as it once was in the arena of cold war politics. Art, argues the distinguished theoretician Boris Groys, is hardly a powerless commodity subject to the art market's fiats of inclusion and exclusion. In Art Power, Groys examines modern and contemporary art according to its ..." |
 | | Introduction to Antiphilosophy(1st Edition) by Boris Groys, David Fernbach Hardcover, 272 Pages, Published 2012 by Verso ISBN-13: 978-1-84467-756-6, ISBN: 1-84467-756-7 "Provocative exploration of the masters of suspicion with regard to philosophy.Philosophy is traditionally understood as the search for universal truths, and philosophers are supposed to transmit those truths beyond the limits of their own culture. But, today, we have become skeptical about the ability of an individual philosopher to engage in “universal thinking,” so philosophy seems to capitulate in the face of cultural relativism. In ..." |
 | | The Total Art of Stalinism(Reprint) Avant-Garde, Aesthetic Dictatorship, and Beyond by Boris Groys, Charles Rougle Paperback, 140 Pages, Published 2011 by Verso ISBN-13: 978-1-84467-707-8, ISBN: 1-84467-707-9 "As communism collapses into ruins, Boris Groys provokes our interest in the aesthetic goals pursued with such catastrophic consequences by its founders. Interpreting totalitarian art and literature in the context of cultural history, this brilliant essay likens totalitarian aims to the modernists' demands that art should move from depicting to transforming the world. The revolutionaries of October 1917 promised to create a society that ..." |
 | | The Communist Postscript(Reprint) by Boris Groys Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 2020 by Verso ISBN-13: 978-1-84467-432-9, ISBN: 1-84467-432-0 "Since Plato, philosophers have dreamed of establishing a rational state ruled through the power of language. In this radical and disturbing account of Soviet philosophy, Boris Groys argues that communism shares that dream and is best understood as an attempt to replace financial with linguistic bonds as the cement uniting society. The transformative power of language, the medium of equality, is the key to any new communist revolution." |
 | | Russian Cosmism (The MIT Press) by Boris Groys, The Mit Press Hardcover, 264 Pages, Published 2018 by The Mit Press ISBN-13: 978-0-262-03743-3, ISBN: 0-262-03743-2 "Crucial texts, many available in English for the first time, written before and during the Bolshevik Revolution by the radical biopolitical utopianists of Russian Cosmism.Cosmism emerged in Russia before the October Revolution and developed through the 1920s and 1930s; like Marxism and the European avant-garde, two other movements that shared this intellectual moment, Russian Cosmism rejected the contemplative for the transformative, ai ..." |
 | | In the Flow(Reprint) by Boris Groys Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 2018 by Verso ISBN-13: 978-1-78478-351-8, ISBN: 1-78478-351-X "The leading art theorist takes on art in the age of the Internet In the early twentieth century, art and its institutions came under critique from a new democratic and egalitarian spirit. The notion of works of art as sacred objects was decried and subsequently they would be understood merely as things. This meant an attack on realism, as well as on the traditional preservative mission of the museum., Acclaimed art theorist Boris Groys ..." |
 | | In the Flow by Boris Groys Hardcover, 208 Pages, Published 2016 by Verso ISBN-13: 978-1-78478-350-1, ISBN: 1-78478-350-1 "The leading art theorist takes on art in the age of the Internet In the early twentieth century, art and its institutions came under critique from a new democratic and egalitarian spirit. The notion of works of art as sacred objects was decried and subsequently they would be understood merely as things. This meant an attack on realism, as well as on the traditional preservative mission of the museum. Acclaimed art theorist Boris Groys a ..." |
 | | History Becomes Form Moscow Conceptualism (The MIT Press) by Boris Groys Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 2013 by The Mit Press ISBN-13: 978-0-262-52508-4, ISBN: 0-262-52508-9 "In 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 spectacl ..." |
 | | The Communist Postscript(10th Edition) (Pocket Communism) by Boris Groys, Thomas Ford Hardcover, 160 Pages, Published 2010 by Verso ISBN-13: 978-1-84467-430-5, ISBN: 1-84467-430-4 "The contemporary world, argues Boris Groys, was made possible by the downfall of historical communism. At the same time, today's political and aesthetic strategies - from a unified Europe to political Islam and contemporary mass culture - all bear the imprint of communist heritage. The renowned art critic and philosopher Boris Groys explores this post-communist condition through a radical and disturbing account of Soviet philosophy. He ..." |
 | | The Total Art of Stalinism(1st Edition) Avant-Garde, Aesthetic Dictatorship, and Beyond by Boris Groys, Charles Rougle Hardcover, 140 Pages, Published 1992 by Princeton University Press International Edition ISBN-13: 978-0-691-05596-1, ISBN: 0-691-05596-3 " As communism collapses into ruins, Boris Groys provokes our interest in the aesthetic goals pursued with such catastrophic consequences by its founders. Interpreting totalitarian art and literature in the context of cultural history, this brilliant essay likens totalitarian aims to the modernists' demands that art should move from depicting to transforming the world. The revolutionaries of October 1917 promised to create a society th ..." |
 | | Playing by the Rules(3rd Edition) Alternative Thinking/ Alternative Spaces by Steven Rand, Robert Atkins, Julie Ault, Rene Block, Winslow Burleson, Biljana Ciric, Renaud Ego, Sofija Grandakovska, Boris Groys, Marina Grzinic, Pablo Helguera, Naeem Mohaiemen, Raphael Rubinstein, Irene Tsatsos, Heather Kouris Paperback, 176 Pages, Published 2010 by Apexart ISBN-13: 978-1-933347-43-1, ISBN: 1-933347-43-0 "The perceived rules of the development and running of alternative spaces, and where those rules came from, are among the questions answered by the authors of Playing by the Rules: Alternative Thinking/Alternative Spaces. The underlying message in the publication is the importance of critical thinking as well as the need for alternative thinking. In the book s preface, Steven Rand (artist and the Founder and Executive Director of ape ..." |
 | | Jeff Wall Complete Edition (Phaidon Contemporary Artists Series) by Boris Groys, Thierry De Duve, Arielle Pelenc, Jean-Francois Chevrier, Mark Lewis, Michele Robecchi, Craig Garrett, Mark Leewis, Jeff Wall Hardcover, 272 Pages, Published 2010 by Phaidon Press ISBN-13: 978-0-7148-5597-4, ISBN: 0-7148-5597-9 "Jeff Wall (b.1946) adopts the nineteenth-century poet Baudelaire's famous description of one of his contemporaries as 'a painter of modern life' to describe his own very different work: huge transparencies mounted on to light boxes that diffuse a brilliant glow of white light evenly through his photographs of contemporary urban scenes and 'constructed' social situations. Wall is foremost among the pioneering artists who since the late 1 ..." |
 | | Ilya Kabakov The Man Who Flew into Space from his Apartment (Afterall Books / One Work) by Boris Groys, Mark Lewis Paperback, 56 Pages, Published 2006 by Afterall Books ISBN-13: 978-1-84638-004-4, ISBN: 1-84638-004-9 "The fictitious hero of this 1984 installation is a lonely dreamer who develops an impossible project: to fly alone in cosmic space. But this dream is also an individual appropriation of a collective Soviet project and the official Soviet propaganda connected to it. Having built a makeshift slingshot, the hero apparently flies through the ceiling of his shabby room and vanis ..." |
 | | Pawel Althamer(1st Edition) The Neighbors by Boris Groys, Joanna Mytkowska, Artur Mijewski, Massimiliano Gioni, Gary Carrion-Murayari, Gioni Massimo, Artur Żmijewski Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2014 by Skira Rizzoli ISBN-13: 978-0-8478-4423-4, ISBN: 0-8478-4423-4 " Set to accompany the first major solo exhibition in the United States of Polish contemporary artist Paweł Althamer, one of the most important European artists to emerge since the 1990s.In association with the New Museum, New YorkOver the past twenty years, Althamer has established a singular artistic practice featuring an expanded approach to sculptural representation and experimental models of social collaboration. This publication in ..." |
 | | Christoph Schlingensief - German Pavillon(1st Edition) 54th Venice Biennale 2011 by Christoph Schlingensief, Voxi Barenklau, Thomas Demand, Carl Hegemann, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Rene Pollesch, Boris Groys, Susanne Gaensheimer Paperback, 366 Pages, Published 2011 by Sternberg Press ISBN-13: 978-1-934105-42-9, ISBN: 1-934105-42-2 "Contributions by Helke Bayrle, Klaus Biesenbach, John Bock, Frank Castorf, Thomas Demand, Chris Dercon, Diedrich Diederichsen, Susanne Gaensheimer, Boris Groys, Carl Hegemann, Irm Hermann, Johannes Hoff, Andy Hope 1930, Elfriede Jelinek, Schorsch Kamerun, Alexander Kluge, Dietrich Kuhlbrodt, Aino Laberenz, Torsten Lemmer, Matthias Lilienthal, Jonathan Meese, Michaela Melián/Thomas Meinecke, Klaus Mertes, Eva Meyer-Hermann, Werner Nekes, ..." |
 | | History Becomes Form Moscow Conceptualism (The MIT Press) by Boris Groys Hardcover, 208 Pages, Published 2010 by The Mit Press ISBN-13: 978-0-262-01423-6, ISBN: 0-262-01423-8 "In the 1970s and 1980s, a group of "unofficial" artists in Moscowâartists not recognized by the state, not covered by state-controlled media, and cut off from wider audiencesâcreated 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 t ..." |
 | | Project Europa(1st Edition) Imagining the (Im)Possible by Kerry Oliver-Smith, Marius Babias, Boris Grois, Boris Groys Paperback, 116 Pages, Published 2010 by University Press Of Florida ISBN-13: 978-0-9762552-9-1, ISBN: 0-9762552-9-4 "Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin wall, "Project Europa"considers the relationship of art and artists to democracy. What is the role of art in the public sphere? In what ways do artists mediate the vital and critical political issues of their time? What is the emancipator potential of art? In the exhibition, nineteen artists from the British Isles to Turkey challenge the collective imagination of Europe while confronting a parad ..." |
 | | Art Power by Boris Groys Hardcover, 200 Pages, Published 2008 by Mit Press ISBN-13: 978-0-262-07292-2, ISBN: 0-262-07292-0 "Winner of the 2009 Frank Jewett Mather Award given by the College Art Association (CAA). Art has its own power in the world, and is as much a force in the power play of global politics today as it once was in the arena of cold war politics. Art, argues distinguished theoretician Boris Groys, is hardly a powerless commodity subject to the art market's fiats of inclusion and exclusion. In Art Power, Groys examines modern and contempora ..." |
 | | The Art of Participation(1st Edition) by Rudolf Frieling, Boris Groys, Robert Atkins Ms, Lev Manovich Hardcover, 212 Pages, Published 2008 by Thames & Hudson ISBN-13: 978-0-500-23858-5, ISBN: 0-500-23858-8 "The first fully illustrated survey of participatory art and its key practitioners, published in association with the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.This new survey covers the rich and varied history of participatory art, from early happenings and performances to current practices that demand audience interaction. As the hallmarks of Web 2.0—browsing, sharing, collecting, producing—increasingly permeate every aspect of society, this ..." |
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