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What does it mean to be post-Soviet? : decolonial art from the ruins of the Soviet empire / Madina Tlostanova.
LIBRA NX180.P67 T56 2018
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tlostanova, M. V. (Madina Vladimirovna), author.
- Series:
- On decoloniality
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Postcolonialism and the arts--Former Soviet republics.
- Postcolonialism and the arts.
- Post-communism--Social aspects--Former Soviet republics.
- Post-communism.
- Art--Political aspects--Former Soviet republics.
- Art.
- Art--Political aspects.
- Post-communism--Social aspects.
- Soviet Union--Former Soviet republics.
- Physical Description:
- 145 pages cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2018.
- Summary:
- In 'What Does It Mean to Be Post-Soviet?' Madina Tlostanova traces how contemporary post-Soviet art mediates this human condition. Observing how the concept of the happy future-which was at the core of the project of Soviet modernity-has lapsed from the post-Soviet imagination, Tlostanova shows how the possible way out of such a sense of futurelessness lies in the engagement with activist art. She interviews artists, art collectives, and writers such as Estonian artist Liina Siib, Uzbek artist Vyacheslav Akhunov, and Azerbaijani writer Afanassy Mamedov who frame the post-Soviet condition through the experience and expression of community, space, temporality, gender, and negotiating the demands of the state and the market. In foregrounding the unfolding aesthesis and activism in the post-Soviet space, Tlostanova emphasizes the important role that decolonial art plays in providing the foundation upon which to build new modes of thought and a decolonial future.
- Contents:
- The decolonial sublime
- Decolonial aesthesis and post-Soviet art
- A woman who has many selves and takes over many spaces : a conversation with Liina Siib
- Beyond dependencies : a talk with Vyacheslav Akhunov, the lonely ranger of Uzbek contemporary art
- Reflecting on time, space, and memory with Afanassy Mamedov.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Tlostanova, M.V. (Madina Vladimirovna). What does it mean to be post-Soviet?
- ISBN:
- 9780822371342
- 0822371340
- 9780822371274
- 0822371278
- OCLC:
- 1000040194
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