Transition in post-Soviet art : : The Collective Actions Group before and after 1989 Esanu / / Octavian Esanu.

• Author: Esanu, Octavian.
• Place / Publishing House: Budapest ;, New York : : Central European University Press,, 2013.
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (377 pages) :; illustrations

Table of Contents

A general introduction to KD and Moscow conceptualism -- A bibliographic overview -- The literature before 1989 -- The literature after 1989 -- The consolidation of the discursive field of Moscow conceptualism -- Mapping Moscow conceptualism -- The attribute "romantic" -- The central concept of "emptiness" -- Transition: from KD to [KD] -- KD's journeys before 1989 -- Volume I (phase 1976-80): "appearance" -- Volume II (phase 1980-83): "ten appearances" -- Volume III (phase 1983-85): "discussion" -- Volume IV (phase 1985-87) and volume V (1987-89) -- during transition to capitalism -- Transition and transitology -- The cultural transition: the SCCA model -- [KD]'s journeys after 1989 -- Temporality of transition -- New schizo- terms in the dictionary -- Bracketed totality: from KD to [KD] -- From numerology to statistics -- From action to installation -- From descriptions to projects -- Kievogorskoe field: from no one's land to housing development -- A more comfortable journey: from public to private transportation -- The democratization of language -- Afterword: from KD to [KD]: from objectivation to reification.