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  | | Art Power (The MIT Press) by Boris Groys Paperback, 200 Pages, Published 2013 by The Mit Press ISBN-13: 978-0-262-51868-0, ISBN: 0-262-51868-6 "Art has its own power in the world, and is as much a force in the power play of global politics today as it once was in the arena of cold war politics. Art, argues the distinguished theoretician Boris Groys, is hardly a powerless commodity subject to the art market's fiats of inclusion and exclusion. In Art Power, Groys examines modern and contemporary art according to its ..." |
 | | The Communist Postscript(Reprint) by Boris Groys Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 2020 by Verso ISBN-13: 978-1-84467-432-9, ISBN: 1-84467-432-0 "Since Plato, philosophers have dreamed of establishing a rational state ruled through the power of language. In this radical and disturbing account of Soviet philosophy, Boris Groys argues that communism shares that dream and is best understood as an attempt to replace financial with linguistic bonds as the cement uniting society. The transformative power of language, the medium of equality, is the key to any new communist revolution." |
 | | On the New by Boris Groys, G. M. Goshgarian Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 2014 by Verso ISBN-13: 978-1-78168-292-0, ISBN: 1-78168-292-5 ""On the New" looks at the economies of exchange and valuation that drive modern culture's key sites: the intellectual marketplace and the archive. As ideas move from one context to another, newness is created. This continuous shifting of the line that separates the valuable from the worthless, culture from profanity, is at the center of Boris Groys's investigation which aims to map the uncharted territory of what constitutes artistic in ..." |
 | | Introduction to Antiphilosophy(1st Edition) by Boris Groys, David Fernbach Hardcover, 272 Pages, Published 2012 by Verso ISBN-13: 978-1-84467-756-6, ISBN: 1-84467-756-7 "Provocative exploration of the masters of suspicion with regard to philosophy.Philosophy is traditionally understood as the search for universal truths, and philosophers are supposed to transmit those truths beyond the limits of their own culture. But, today, we have become skeptical about the ability of an individual philosopher to engage in “universal thinking,” so philosophy seems to capitulate in the face of cultural relativism. In ..." |
 | | The Total Art of Stalinism(Reprint) Avant-Garde, Aesthetic Dictatorship, and Beyond by Boris Groys, Charles Rougle Paperback, 140 Pages, Published 2011 by Verso ISBN-13: 978-1-84467-707-8, ISBN: 1-84467-707-9 "As communism collapses into ruins, Boris Groys provokes our interest in the aesthetic goals pursued with such catastrophic consequences by its founders. Interpreting totalitarian art and literature in the context of cultural history, this brilliant essay likens totalitarian aims to the modernists' demands that art should move from depicting to transforming the world. The revolutionaries of October 1917 promised to create a society that ..." |
 | | Russian Cosmism (The MIT Press) by Boris Groys, The Mit Press Hardcover, 264 Pages, Published 2018 by The Mit Press ISBN-13: 978-0-262-03743-3, ISBN: 0-262-03743-2 "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.Cosmism emerged in Russia before the October Revolution and developed through the 1920s and 1930s; like Marxism and the European avant-garde, two other movements that shared this intellectual moment, Russian Cosmism rejected the contemplative for the transformative, ai ..." |
 | | In the Flow(Reprint) by Boris Groys Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 2018 by Verso ISBN-13: 978-1-78478-351-8, ISBN: 1-78478-351-X "The leading art theorist takes on art in the age of the Internet In the early twentieth century, art and its institutions came under critique from a new democratic and egalitarian spirit. The notion of works of art as sacred objects was decried and subsequently they would be understood merely as things. This meant an attack on realism, as well as on the traditional preservative mission of the museum., Acclaimed art theorist Boris Groys ..." |
 | | History Becomes Form Moscow Conceptualism (The MIT Press) by Boris Groys Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 2013 by The Mit Press ISBN-13: 978-0-262-52508-4, ISBN: 0-262-52508-9 "In the 1970s and 1980s, a group of "unofficial" artists in Moscow -- artists not recognized by the state, not covered by state-controlled media, and cut off from wider audiences -- created artworks that gave artistic form to a certain historical moment: the experience of Soviet socialism. The Moscow conceptualists not only reflected and analyzed by artistic means a spectacl ..." |
 | | The Communist Postscript(10th Edition) (Pocket Communism) by Boris Groys, Thomas Ford Hardcover, 160 Pages, Published 2010 by Verso ISBN-13: 978-1-84467-430-5, ISBN: 1-84467-430-4 "The contemporary world, argues Boris Groys, was made possible by the downfall of historical communism. At the same time, today's political and aesthetic strategies - from a unified Europe to political Islam and contemporary mass culture - all bear the imprint of communist heritage. The renowned art critic and philosopher Boris Groys explores this post-communist condition through a radical and disturbing account of Soviet philosophy. He ..." |
 | | In the Flow by Boris Groys Hardcover, 208 Pages, Published 2016 by Verso ISBN-13: 978-1-78478-350-1, ISBN: 1-78478-350-1 "The leading art theorist takes on art in the age of the Internet In the early twentieth century, art and its institutions came under critique from a new democratic and egalitarian spirit. The notion of works of art as sacred objects was decried and subsequently they would be understood merely as things. This meant an attack on realism, as well as on the traditional preservative mission of the museum. Acclaimed art theorist Boris Groys a ..." |
 | | The Total Art of Stalinism(1st Edition) Avant-Garde, Aesthetic Dictatorship, and Beyond by Boris Groys, Charles Rougle Hardcover, 140 Pages, Published 1992 by Princeton University Press International Edition ISBN-13: 978-0-691-05596-1, ISBN: 0-691-05596-3 " As communism collapses into ruins, Boris Groys provokes our interest in the aesthetic goals pursued with such catastrophic consequences by its founders. Interpreting totalitarian art and literature in the context of cultural history, this brilliant essay likens totalitarian aims to the modernists' demands that art should move from depicting to transforming the world. The revolutionaries of October 1917 promised to create a society th ..." |
 | | Playing by the Rules(3rd Edition) Alternative Thinking/ Alternative Spaces by Steven Rand, Robert Atkins, Julie Ault, Rene Block, Winslow Burleson, Biljana Ciric, Renaud Ego, Sofija Grandakovska, Boris Groys, Marina Grzinic, Pablo Helguera, Naeem Mohaiemen, Raphael Rubinstein, Irene Tsatsos, Heather Kouris Paperback, 176 Pages, Published 2010 by Apexart ISBN-13: 978-1-933347-43-1, ISBN: 1-933347-43-0 "The perceived rules of the development and running of alternative spaces, and where those rules came from, are among the questions answered by the authors of Playing by the Rules: Alternative Thinking/Alternative Spaces. The underlying message in the publication is the importance of critical thinking as well as the need for alternative thinking. In the book s preface, Steven Rand (artist and the Founder and Executive Director of ape ..." |
 | | Jeff Wall Complete Edition (Phaidon Contemporary Artists Series) by Boris Groys, Thierry De Duve, Arielle Pelenc, Jean-Francois Chevrier, Mark Lewis, Michele Robecchi, Craig Garrett, Mark Leewis, Jeff Wall Hardcover, 272 Pages, Published 2010 by Phaidon Press ISBN-13: 978-0-7148-5597-4, ISBN: 0-7148-5597-9 "Jeff Wall (b.1946) adopts the nineteenth-century poet Baudelaire's famous description of one of his contemporaries as 'a painter of modern life' to describe his own very different work: huge transparencies mounted on to light boxes that diffuse a brilliant glow of white light evenly through his photographs of contemporary urban scenes and 'constructed' social situations. Wall is foremost among the pioneering artists who since the late 1 ..." |
 | | Art Power by Boris Groys Hardcover, 200 Pages, Published 2008 by Mit Press ISBN-13: 978-0-262-07292-2, ISBN: 0-262-07292-0 "Winner of the 2009 Frank Jewett Mather Award given by the College Art Association (CAA). Art has its own power in the world, and is as much a force in the power play of global politics today as it once was in the arena of cold war politics. Art, argues distinguished theoretician Boris Groys, is hardly a powerless commodity subject to the art market's fiats of inclusion and exclusion. In Art Power, Groys examines modern and contempora ..." |
 | | Ilya Kabakov The Man Who Flew into Space from his Apartment (Afterall Books / One Work) by Boris Groys, Mark Lewis Paperback, 56 Pages, Published 2006 by Afterall Books ISBN-13: 978-1-84638-004-4, ISBN: 1-84638-004-9 "The fictitious hero of this 1984 installation is a lonely dreamer who develops an impossible project: to fly alone in cosmic space. But this dream is also an individual appropriation of a collective Soviet project and the official Soviet propaganda connected to it. Having built a makeshift slingshot, the hero apparently flies through the ceiling of his shabby room and vanis ..." |
 | | Becoming an Artwork by Boris Groys 71 Pages, Published 2022 by John Wiley & Sons ISBN-13: 978-1-5095-5198-9, ISBN: 1-5095-5198-0 "We want to bring others to see us in the way we want to be seen – not only during our earthly life but also after our death. This is a complicated struggle, and the aim of this book is to describe and analyze it." |
 | | Philosophy of Care by Boris Groys 112 Pages, Published 2022 by Verso Books ISBN-13: 978-1-83976-495-0, ISBN: 1-83976-495-3 "But the discussion of care has a long philosophical tradition. The book retraces some episodes of this tradition - beginning with Plato and ending with Alexander Bogdanov through Hegel, Heidegger, Bataille and many others." |
 | | Introduction to Antiphilosophy by Boris Groys 279 Pages, Published 2020 by Verso Books ISBN-13: 978-1-78960-113-8, ISBN: 1-78960-113-4 "In Introduction to Antiphilosophy, Boris Groys argues that modern 'antiphilosophy' does not pursue the universality of thought as its goal but proposes in its place the universality of life, material forces, social practices, passions, and ..." |
 | | On the New by Boris Groys, G. M. Goshgarian Hardcover, 208 Pages, Published 2014 by Verso ISBN-13: 978-1-78168-293-7, ISBN: 1-78168-293-3 "On the New looks at the economies of exchange and valuation that drive modern culture's key sites: the intellectual marketplace and the archive. As ideas move from one context to another, newness is created. This continuous shifting of the line that separates the valuable from the worthless, culture from profanity, is at the center of Boris Groys's investigation which aims to map the uncharted territory of what constitutes artistic inno ..." |
 | | The Total Art of Stalinism Avant-Garde, Aesthetic Dictatorship, and Beyond by Boris Groys 144 Pages, Published 2014 by Verso Books ISBN-13: 978-1-84467-809-9, ISBN: 1-84467-809-1 "Ilya Kabakov “Am Rande” (Kunsthalle Bern, 1985). 9. Il'ia Kabakov, “Semidesiatie gody” (manuscript). 10. Jacques Derrida, Margins of Philosophy, trans. Alan Bass (Chicago, 1982),p. 18. 11. Cf. thetitle ofKabakov's Bernexhibition, “Am Rande.” 12. Jacques Derrida, TheTruth inPainting, trans.Geoff Bennington andIan McLeod (Chicago and London, 1987),pp. 60–61. 13. Onthe function of white inKabakov, see A-Ia,no.6 (1984). 14. For reprodu ..." |
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