Ilya Kabakov, 60s, 70s… Notes on the Unofficial Life in Moscow (Moscow: Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie, 2008).
Rosalind Krauss, The Originality of the Avant-Garde and Other Modernist Myths (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1985).
See John Baldessari’s Commissioned Paintings series, in Conceptual Art, ed. Tony Godfrey (London: Phaidon Press, 1998).
See E. Bulatov’s I’m Going (1975), in which the everyday phrase is painted on the background of the sky using the characters for ideological mottos, or N. Panitkov’s In All Things, a shabby saucepan with the photo-image of Stalin’s poster overlooking the Soviet landscape on its bottom, in Total Enlightenment: Conceptual Art in Moscow, 1960–1990, ed. Boris Groys et al. (Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2008).
As in her work Air and Stone (1966), a small plastic bag filled with air and a stone placed on the bag. The work can be considered accomplished only when it is carried, when one experiences the correlation of heaviness and weightlessness.
Jean-Francois Lyotard, “The Tooth, the Palm,” in Mimesis, Masochism and Mime: The Politics of Theatricality in Contemporary French Thought, ed. Timothy Murray (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000).
See Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality Vol. 1: The Will to Knowledge (London: Penguin, 1976).
Ekaterina Degot, “Moscow Communist Conceptualism,” in Moscow Conceptualism, ed. Ekaterina Degot and Vadim Zakharov (Moscow: Izdatelistvo WAM, 2005), 7–11.
According to Degot, defining “communist” features include the absence of market, the absence of any commitment to institutional commissions, and the self-organization of artistic and contemplative communication, where the audience is posited as potential thinkers and artists, rather than mere consumers.
Evald Ilienkov, Philosophy and Culture, (Moscow: Political Literature Press, 1991), 218.
Ibid., 251.
Ibid., 234.
Boris Groys, “Romantic Conceptualism,” in Total Enlightenment: Conceptual Art in Moscow, 1960–1990, ed. Boris Groys et al. (Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2008), 316–22.
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E.g., Sylvia Sasse dedicated her research to the aspect of Moscow Conceptualism’s speech acts attainment of the goal and effect of a deed. See Sylvia Sasse, Texte in Aktion. Sprech und Sprachakte im Moskauer Konzeptualismus (München: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2003).