The Museological Unconscious

Beschrijving

Studie over de geschiedenis van de hedendaagse Russische kunst als communaal paradigma. - Study views the history of Russian contemporary art through a distinctly Russian lens, a - communal optic - that registers the influence of such characteristically Russian phenomena as communal living, communal perception, and communal speech practices. This way of looking at the subject allows him to gather together a range of artists and art movements - from socialist realism to its - dangerous supplement, - sots art, and from alternative photography to feminism--as if they were tenants in a large Moscow apartment. Describing the notion of -communal optics, - Tupitsyn argues that socialist realism does not work without communal perception -which, as he notes, does not easily fit into crates when paintings travel out of Russia for exhibition in Kassel or New York. Russian artists, critics, and art historians, having lived for decades in a society that ignored or suppressed avant-garde art, have compensated, Tupitsyn claims, by developing a - museological unconscious -the -museification- of the inner world and the collective psyche