Avant-garde museology

by Žiljaev, Arsenij Aleksandrovič

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Full title :Avant-garde museology / Arseny Zhilyaev, editor ; published by e-flux

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At their different stages, Soviet museums were placed for artistic experimentation, for formulating social and political projects, and for ideological struggle. But they were never merely places for neutral aesthetic contemplation and canonization of the past, as they were in the West. Arseny Zhilyaev's comprehensive reader on Soviet museum history tells this fascinating, alternative story of the museum in the twentieth century for the first time - as a story that until now, has been virtually unknown to the international public. At last, Anglophone readers have e chance to access the key texts of early twentieth-century Russian museology: from the eccentric futuristic version of Fedorov and Bogdanov, to the revolutionary avant-garde (Rodchenko and Punin), and groundbreaking experiments at the Tretyakov Gallery and Antireligiuos Museum in the 1930s. Zhilyaev has assembled an indispensable anthology that offers a vivid and timely alternativ to overfamilar Western exhibition histories. Curatorial student looking for radical models - start here!