Description:
Small Quarto (9 1/4 x 6 1/4 inches; 235 x160 mm), 210 pages, in publisher's original red cloth, with a red chemise containing six prints, all housed in a slipcase decorated in red, black, and white. Important reference book on Russian unofficial art, along with a chemise featuring six beautiful prints (230 x 150 mm each) from an edition of 125.
Two of the artists who have contributed prints, Rimma Gerlovina and Valery Gerlovin, have written a lengthy chapter about their own experiences and discuss the lives and works of the other artists whose prints appear here.
Each print is numbered (6/125) and dated (1986) on the verso, and five of the six are signed by the artists. The six Russian conceptual artists represented here are: Vagrich Bakhchanyan ("Flag"); Michael Chernyshov ("Turret," numbered and dated but unsigned); Rimma Gerlovina ("Flat Cube"); Valery Gerlovin ("Out of the Wall"), Henry Khudyakov ("The Big Cig"), and Komar and Melamid ("Venice From the Book Text").
Each print is protected by a… Read More