From the first Modernist exhibitions in the late 1890s to the Soviet rupture with the West in the mid-1930s, Russian artists and writers came into wide contact

"With an abridged translation of the Dictionary of Moscow Conceptualism."

By placing emerging artists in their political and social contexts, this book attempts to confront the activist scene that has arisen in the Russian art world d

The author discusses how Russian art has evolved from icon painting through to Socialist Realism. He examines the work of approximately 50 contemporary artists,

Art of Transition offers an unprecedented ethnographic view of the field of art in Russia between two eras of world-historical significance, socialism and globa