Ilya Kabakov (Contemporary Artists (Phaidon))

The Artist's Writings range from extracts from his Kafka-esque The Life of Flies, to fictional letters of complaint on communal life in the Soviet Union, to texts on the significance to the artist of the legacies of Cezanne and Malevich.. Ross discusses the artist's practice and its bridging of Eastern and Western contemporary art. In the Interview, David A. Boris Groys, an art critic and philosopher, surveys the artist's long career and analyses its philosophical and formal dimensions in terms of art history as well as the artist's own biogaphy. An extract from the short story 'The Steppe' by Anton Chekhov comprises the Artist's Choice. His work has been exhibited at such major international venues as The Muse

From 1993-97 she was Commissioning Editor for Contemporary Art at Phaidon Press. His books include The Total Art of Stalinism: Avant-garde, Aesthetic Dictatorship, and Beyond (1992). His books include Spring and Summer: Soviet Conceptual Art in the Era of Late Communism (1989) and Bill Viola (1997). Iwona Blazwick, Director of the Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, has also held the posts of Curator of the Tate Modern, London, and Director of

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