Avant-garde museology

by Zhilyaev, Arseniy

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Full title :Avant-garde museology / Arseny Zhilyaev, editor.

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The museum of contemporary art might very well be the most advanced recording device ever invented. It is a place for the storage of historical grievances and the memory of forgotten artistic experiments, social projects, or errant futures. But in late 19th and early 20th century Russia, this recording device was undertaken by artists and thinkers as a site for experimentation. This book presents essays documenting the wildly encompassing progressivism of this period by figures such as Nikolai Fedorov, Aleksandr Rodchenko, Kazimir Malevich, Alexander Bogdanov, and others - many translated from the Russian for the first time. Here the urgent question is: How might the contents of the museum be reanimated so as to transcend even the social and physical limits imposed on humankind?