Author: Neumaier, Diane
Title: Beyond Memory: Soviet Nonconformist Photography and Photo-Related Works of Art
Description: Nwe Brunswick, NJ, Jane Voorhees Zimmerlie Art Museum, 2004. Hardcover. Black casebound book. There is a dust jacket with white and pink text on a black spine. Pages: (16), 1-334, (3). Profusely illustrated with a majority black-and-white images. "In 'Beyond Memory: Soviet Nonconformist Photography and Photo-Related Works of Art', the general editor, Diane Neumaier, and twenty-two contributors offer a rigorous examination of the medium's role in late Soviet nonconformist art. Focusing on the period between the mid-1950s and the late 1980s, they explore artists' unusually inventive and resourceful uses of photography within a highly developed Soviet dissident culture." Contents are as follows: Painting versus photography : a battle of mediums in twentieth-century Russian culture / Konstantin Akinsha -- Soviet policy on photography / Elena Barkhatova -- The force of the medium : the Soviet amateur photography movement / Valery Stigneev -- Closer to the body / Alexander Borovsky -- Freeze frame : photography and performance in Moscow conceptual art / Ekaterina Bobrinskaya -- The copy is the crime : unofficial art and the appropriation of official photography / Ekaterina Degot -- Russian photography in the textual context / Boris Groys -- Stretching the limits : on photo-related works of art in the Norton and Nancy Dodge collection / Alla Rosenfeld -- Naked in the grass : absurdity and play in the ideological field / Lev Manovich and Nick Muellner -- Subversive photography : U.S. theory meets Soviet practice / Ernest Larsen -- The shock of the posthumous : Vladimir Syomin's Caucasus project / Jason Francisco -- The special case of Baltic experimental photography. Uses of photography in Estonian visual art / Sirje Helme ; On the verge of snapping : Latvian nonconformist artists and photography / Mark Allen Svede ; Reclaiming the salt of the Earth : Lithuanian photography reconsidered / Raminta Jurenaite -- Feeling around / Boris Mikhailov with Alla Efimova -- Unusual perspectives/fantastic possibilities / Igor Makarevich with Gerald Pirog -- Hinting at reality / Aleksandr Slyusarev with Mikhail Sidlin. VG/VG: Exlibrary book. Sticker on the dust jacket at the base of the spine. Stamp on the front free end page. Stamp on the back free end page. Sticker and due date card on the back pasted end page. Stamp on top text block.

Keywords: Photography, Russian Photography, Nonconformist Art ; Russian Photography ; ; Museum Exhibitions - Photography


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