Andrei Monastyrski: Elementary Poetry
Author: Brian Droitcour, Yelena Kalinsky (Eds.)
Publisher: Ugly Duckling Presse; Soberscove Press
Language: English
Pages: 360
Size: 15,5 x 21 cm
Weight:
600 g
Binding: Softcover
ISBN: 9781937027681
Availability:
In stock
Price:
€28.00
Product Description
Russian poet, author, artist and art theorist Andrei Monastyrski (born 1949) is, along with Ilya Kabakov, one of the founders of conceptualism in Russia, and a protagonist of Collective Actions, a group of artists who have organized participatory actions on the outskirts of Moscow since 1976. Though his poetry is less well known, poetry is where he began. After writing in the manner of the Russian modernists (who were newly available to Soviet readers during Khrushchev's thaw), Monastyrski's interest in John Cage and ideas about consciousness from Western and Eastern philosophical traditions led him to conduct experiments with sound, form and the creation of artistic situations involving constructed objects that required viewer engagement to complete. Elementary Poetry collects poems, books and action objects from the '70s and '80s, tracing a genealogy of the art action in poetry.