Moscow Conceptualists

Literature

For publications on individual artists and collectives see their respective pages.

Andrei Monastyrsky, Dictionary of Moscow Conceptualism, 1999/2010, PDF, HTML.

Moskovskii kontseptualizm, 2005, PDF, Log.

Books

• Andrei Monastyrsky (Монастырский Андрей), Slovar terminov Moskovskoi kontseptualnoi shkoly [Словарь терминов московской концептуальной школы], Moscow: Ad Marginem, 1999. (Russian)
  • Dictionary of Moscow Conceptualism (An Adaptation), trans., annot. & illustr. Octavian Eşanu, Contimporary, 2010, 161 pp, PDF, HTML. (English)
• Sylvia Sasse, Texte in Aktion. Sprech- und Sprachakte im Moskauer Konzeptualismus, Munich: Fink, 2003. (German)
• Moskauer Konzeptualismus. Sammlung Haralampi G. Oroschakoff : Sammlung, Verlag und Archiv Vadim Zakharov : Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Cologne: Walter König, 2003, 176 pp. [1] [2] (German)/(English)
• Moskovskii kontseptualizm [Московский концептуализм], eds. Ekaterina Degot and Vadim Zakharov, Moscow: WAM, 2005, 415 pp. Special issue of World Art Музей (WAM) journal, 15/16. (Russian)
• Victor Tupitsyn, The Museological Unconscious: Communal (Post)Modernism in Russia, intro. Susan Buck-Morss and Victor Tupitsyn, MIT Press, 2009, x+341 pp. (English)
• Boris Groys, History Becomes Form: Moscow Conceptualism, MIT Press, 2010, 224 pp. Review: Weibgen (ArtJournal 2011). (English)
• Matthew Jesse Jackson, The Experimental Group: Ilya Kabakov, Moscow Conceptualism, Soviet Avant-Gardes, University of Chicago Press, 2010, 336 pp. [3]. Review: Weibgen (ArtJournal 2011). (English)
• Moscow Symposium: Conceptualism Revisited, ed. & intro. Boris Groys, Berlin: Sternberg, 2012, 176 pp. With essays by Claire Bishop, Keti Chukhrov, Ekaterina Degot, Jörg Heiser, Terry Smith, Anton Vidokle, and Sarah Wilson. [4] (English)
• Octavian Eşanu, Transition in Post-Soviet Art: The Collective Actions Group Before and After 1989, forew. Boris Groys, CEU Press, 2013, 375 pp. [5] (English)

Catalogues

• Between Spring and Summer. Soviet Conceptual Art in the Era of Late Communism, Boston: Tacoma Art Museum, 1990. Catalogue. (English)
• Die Totale Aufklärung: Moskauer Konzeptkunst, 1960-1990 / Total Enlightenment: Conceptual Art in Moscow, 1960-1990, eds. Boris Groys, Max Hollein and Manuel Fontán del Junco, Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2008, 423 pp. Catalogue published in conjunction with the exhibition held at Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, June 21-Sept. 14, 2008 and Fundación Juan March, Madrid, Oct. 10, 2008-Jan. 11, 2009. (German)/(English)
  • La Ilustración total: arte conceptual de Moscú, 1960-1990 / Total Enlightenment: Conceptual Art in Moscow, 1960-1990, Madrid: Fundación Juan March, and Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2008, 424 pp. [6] (Spanish)/(English)
• Field of Action: The Moscow Conceptual School in Context 1970s-1980s, eds. Aleksandra Danilova and Elena Kuprina-Lyakhovich, Moscow: Ekaterina Collection, 2010. (English)
• Moscow Conceptualism in Context, ed. Alla Rosenfeld, Munich: Prestel, and New Brunswick: Zimmerli Art Museum, 2011, 496 pp. [7]. Review: Audureau (Critique d'art 2012). (English)
• Moskovskii kontseptualizm. Nachalo [Московский концептуализм. Начало], ed. Yuri Albert (Юрий Альберт), Nizhny Novgorod: NCCA, 2014, 271 pp. Catalogue of the 2012 exhibition at NCCA Arsenal curated by Yuri Albert. (Russian)

Journal issues

• Iskusstvo [Искусство] 5: "Moskovskii kontseptualizm" [Московский концептуализм], 2008. Special issue of journal. (Russian)
• Iskusstvo [Искусство] 2: "Kontseptualizm. Obraz zhizni" [Концептуализм. Образ жизни], 2011. Special issue of journal. (Russian)
• e-flux 29: "Global Conceptualism Revisited", ed. Boris Groys, Nov 2011. (English)

Essays

• Boris Groys (Борис Гройс), "Ekzistentsialnyye predposylki kontseptualnogo iskusstva" [Экзистенциальные предпосылки концептуального искусства], 37 (samizdat) [Машинописный журнал "37"], No 12, Leningrad, 1977.
• Boris Groys (Борис Гройс), "Moskovskii romanticheskii kontseptualizm / Moscow Romantic Conceptualism" [Московский романтический концептуализм], A-Ya [А-Я] 1, Paris, 1979, pp 3-11; RU repr. in Moskovskii konceptualizm, eds. Degot and Zakharov, 2005; EN repr. in Groys, History Becomes Form: Moscow Conceptualism, 2010, pp 35-55. First published in the samizdat magazine 37, Leningrad, 1979. (Russian)/(English)
• Ekaterina Degot (Екатерина Дёготь), "Другое чтение других текстов. Московский концептуализм перед лицом идиоматического документа", NLO [НЛО] 22 (1996). (Russian)
• Victor Tupitsyn, "Moscow Communal Conceptualism", Parachute, Montreal, Apr 1996, pp 24-29. [8] (English)
  • "Moskovskiy kommunalnyy kontseptualizm" [Московский коммунальный концептуализм], n.d. (Russian)
• Margarita Tupitsyn, "About Early Soviet Conceptualism", in Global Conceptualism: Points of Origin, 1950s-1980s, eds. Jane Ferver, et al., New York: Queens Museum of Art, 1999, pp 99-107, JPGs. (English)
• Ekaterina Degot (Екатерина Дёготь), "Kontseptualnyy proyekt" [Концептуальный проект], in Degot, Russkoye iskusstvo XX veka [Русское искусство ХХ века], Moscow: Trilistnik, 2000, pp 154-209. (Russian)
• Victor Tupitsyn (Виктор Тупицын), "Moskovskiy partizanskiy kontseptualizm" [Московский партизанский концептуализм], Stella Art Foundation, c2009. (Russian)
• Isabelle Després, "Le conceptualisme moscovite: art progressiste ou dissidence idéologique?", ILCEA 16 (2012). (French)
• Emanuel Landolt, Michail Maiatsky, "Une philosophie dans les marges: le cas du conceptualisme moscovite", Cahiers du monde Russe 53:4 (2012). [9] (French)

Dissertations

• Adrian Barr, Archaeologies of the Avant-Garde, Rutgers University, 2011, xiv+279 pp. Dissertation. (English)

Bibliographies

• Bibliographies on Moscow Conceptualism page, ed. Sergey Letov.
• Bibliography on Conceptualism-Moscow.org

Resources

• Moscow Conceptualism, ed. Vadim Zakharov.
• Moscow Conceptualism, ed. Sergey Letov.

Links

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_Conceptualists