"Originalausgabe Mit farbigen Abbildungen von Lev Nussberg, Vitaly Komar, Leonid Sokov, Alexander Kosolapov, Ilja und Emilia Kabakov, Irina Nachova, Pavel Pepperstein, Viktor Pivovarov."
"Blasphemy: Art that Offends is a prescient examination of the perpetually troubled, often explosive relationship between religion, politics and art. This book draws on a rich wealth of visual material, tracing both the history of blasphemy as a concept and re-positioning the term in the twenty-first century.Questions of censorship and freedom of expression are today extremely volatile, a fact evinced by the recent international backlash ..."
"Accompanying a retrospective of the great Russian painter and sculptor Alexander Kosolapov (born 1943) at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, this catalog showcases his works―colorful parodies of corporate logos, cartoon characters, portraits of Soviet leaders and more."
"Alexander Kosolapov is one of the most remarkable "go-betweeners" of contemporary art, a nomadic presence across ideologies and cultures and a hero of Russian Conceptualism alongside Ilya Kabakov, Boris Mikhailov and Dmitri Prigov. In 1973, he cofounded the Sots-Art movement, which satirically conflated Soviet and American capitalist iconographies; in 1975 he relocated to New York, remaining there for 30 years and immersing himself in t ..."