Ilya/Emilia Kabakov: Monument to a Lost Civilization (Non-mint)

Softcover | 26.67 x 1.91 x 21.59 cm | 248 pp

Edizioni Charta | 1999 | 9788881582228

Text in English & Italian

Ilya Kabakov (1933-2023) was regarded as one of Russia's most important artists of his time. Since the beginning of his artistic investigation Kabakov, undisput-
ed protagonist of the international art scene centred his "poetics" on the
analysis of the Soviet social condition of the post-Stalin period.

Together with his wife Emilia, he developed Monument to a Lost Civilization - a project reconstructing the condition of life in the Soviet Union and its institutional paradigms through the voices, false hopes, and dreams of the people. This project, the principal work of the two artists for the over 10 years, is a monument to the civilisation into which they were born, where they studied, and where they lived: the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics that no longer exists.

The Monument is comprised of a complex of 38 of the Kabakov's most significant
installations, realised over the span of his long career, which had been individually exhibited in various artistic institutions and brought together for the first time.

The installations - linked by the mise en scène of the everyday reality of communal living in the Soviet Union - are supplemented with documents and texts which are an integral part of the work itself and fundamental for understanding it. This book, which also includes writings by Kabakov, is a complete and accurate instrument with which to understand the work and minds of these artists.

PLEASE NOTE: This book is a NON-MINT item. NON-MINT books are new but are either ex-display copies or warehouse marked - minor cosmetic imperfections such as scuffs, marks, or minor dents to the covers.