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    Logic of the Collection

    Boris Groys

    A prominent critic and theorist considers the criteria of value for collecting and storing works of art. In modernity, the museum was the institution that made art accessible to the…

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    Philosophy of Care

    Boris Groys

    Retracing the philosophical discussions around care

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    Becoming an Artwork

    Boris Groys

    Modern history is a history of aesthetizations - and every aesthetization raises a claim of protection. We aestheticize and want to protect almost everything, including Earth, oceans, the atmosphere, rare…

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    Kandinsky: Incarnating Beauty

    Alexandre Kojeve

    A teacher to Jacques Lacan, Andre Breton, and Albert Camus, Kojeve defined art as the act of extracting the beautiful from objective reality. His poetic text, The Concrete Paintings of…

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    The Total Art of Stalinism: Avant-Garde, Aesthetic Dictatorship, and Beyond

    Boris Groys

    From the ruins of communism, this book emerges to provoke our interest in the aesthetic goals pursued with such catastrophic consequences by its founders. Interpreting totalitarian art and literature in…

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    In the Flow

    Boris Groys

    The leading art theorist takes on art in the age of the internet

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    On the New

    Boris Groys

    One of the most influential voices in contemporary cultural theory on how to make it new.

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    In the Flow

    Boris Groys

    The leading art theorist takes on art in the age of the internet

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    Introduction to Antiphilosophy

    Boris Groys

    Provocative exploration of the masters of suspicion with regard to philosophy.

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    On the New

    Boris Groys

    One of the most influential voices in contemporary cultural theory on how to make it new.

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    Ilya Kabakov: The Man Who Flew into Space from His Apartment

    Boris Groys

    Presents an illustrated study of one of Ilya Kabakov’s installations. This title raises questions of authorship in modernity. It reveals a hidden rule of the modern art system: only an…

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    Russian Cosmism

    Crucial texts, many available in English for the first time, written before and during the Bolshevik Revolution by the radical biopolitical utopianists of Russian Cosmism.

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    Becoming an Artwork

    Groys

    Modern history is a history of aesthetizations - and every aesthetization raises a claim of protection. We aestheticize and want to protect almost everything, including Earth, oceans, the atmosphere, rare…

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    Boris Groys/Andro Wekua: Wait to Wait

    Boris Groys,Andro Wekua

    Celebrated Russian philosopher Boris Groys and Georgian artist Andro Wekua were convened for this publication to compare and discuss their experiences of contemporary art: the Soviet era, the contemporary conditions…

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    The Yugoslav Art Space

    A critical introduction to the life and work of Yugoslav modernist and conceptual art's foremost exponent

    Jesa Denegri (born 1936) has been the most influential historian and theorist of Yugoslav…

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    The Communist Postscript

    Boris Groys

    Argues that the contemporary world was made possible by the downfall of historical communism. This book also argues that at the same time, political and aesthetic strategies - from a…

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    Under Suspicion: A Phenomenology of Media

    Boris Groys

    The public generally regards the media with suspicion and distrust. Therefore, the media’s primary concern is to regain that trust through the production of sincerity. Advancing the field of media…

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    History Becomes Form: Moscow Conceptualism

    Boris Groys (Global Distinguished Professor, New York University)

    An insider’s account of the art and artists of the most interesting Russian artistic phenomenon since the Russian Avant-Garde.

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    Art Power

    Boris Groys (Global Distinguished Professor, New York University)

    A new book by Boris Groys acknowledges the problem and potential of art’s complex relationship to power.

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    Peter Fischli & David Weiss

    Boris Groys,Emily Wei Rales

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    Boris Mikhailov: Bucher Books: Structures of Madness, or Why Shepherds Living in the Mountains Often Go Crazy / Photomania in Crimea

    Oksana Bulgakowa,Boris Groys,Boris Mikhailov

    The special thing about Boris Mikhailov as a book maker is that he thinks of and develops photography in sequences, in spaces and cuts, in the forms of its montage…

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    The Art of Participation: 1950 to Now

    Rudolf Frieling,Boris Groys,Robert Atkins,Lev Manovich

    Covers the history of participatory art, from early happenings and performances to present practices that demand audience interaction. As the internet mindset browsing, sharing, collecting, producing permeates various aspects of…

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    Andrei Monastyrski - Elementary Poetry

    One of the founders of conceptualism in Russia, poet, author, artist, and art theorist Monastyrski is a protagonist of Collective Actions, a group of artists who have organized participatory actions…

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    THE VOID: Wolfgang H Scholz; Photography, Film, Performance and Installation

    The first retrospective of German artist Wolfgang H. Scholz, covering his work from the 1980s to date. Text in English with a German and Spanish insert.

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    Grisha Bruskin: Archaeologistis Collection

    Archaeologist’s Collection, a project by Russian-American artist Grisha Bruskin (born 1945), is set in a future world in which an archaeological dig has unearthed Soviet civilization and attempts to comprehend…

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    After the Digital Divide?: German Aesthetic Theory in the Age of New Media

    New essays providing innovative ways of understanding the altered position of media in Germany and beyond.

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    Katharina Gruzei: Mir Metro

    The Moscow Metro is a unique place. With a network of 400 kilometers of lines, exceptionally deep tunnels and stations, and nearly nine million passengers a day, it is one…

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    Transition in Post-Soviet Art: The Collective Actions Group Before and After 1989

    Octavian Esanu (Founding Director, Soros Center for Contemporary Art, Chisinau (Moldova))

    This volume presents the evolution of the Moscow-based conceptual artist group called Collective Actions, proposing it as a case-study for understanding the transformations that took place in Eastern European art…

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    German Pavilion - 54th Venice Biennale, 2011

    Christoph Schlingensief,Ames Gerould,Thomas Demand,Boris Groys (Staatliche Hochschule Fur Gestaltung Kahrlruhe),Carl Hegemann

    By way of actions, films, installations, operas, theater pieces, television broadcasting, and teaching, Christoph Schliegensief produced work that boldly addressed contemporary culture and politics, particularly within Germany. Schlingensief’s death in…

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    Peter Fischli David Weiss

    The first monogaph on the witty, celebrated Swiss duo.

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    Monolith. Controversies: Pavilion of Chile

    DAM Architectural Book Award 2014 | Catalogue on the Chilean contribution to the 14th Architecture Exhibition at the Venice Biennale 2014, winner of the Silver Lion 2014 | A historical…

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    Kunst Graphik Design Architektur / Art Prints & Drawings Design Architecture: Pinakothek der Moderne

    Tour Guide through modernisms cultural history

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    Cosmic Shift: Russian Contemporary Art Writing

    Ilya Kabakov,Emilia Kabakov,Boris Groys,Pavel Pepperstein

    An anthology of Russian contemporary art writing to be published outside Russia, many of the country’s prominent contemporary artists, writers, philosophers, curators and historians come together to examine the region’s…

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    Art School: (Propositions for the 21st Century)

    Leading international artists and art educators consider the challenges of art education in today’s dramatically changed art world.

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    Collecting in the Twenty-First Century: From Museums to the Web

    An interdisciplinary volume of essays identifying the impact of technology on the age-old cultural practice of collecting as well as the opportunities and pitfalls of collecting in the digital era.

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