Moscow Plastic Arts. Photographs by Nick Muellner. Arcadia University Art Gallery, 2008. 48 pp., illustrated throughout, 5,75x8,25". Edition of 1250 copies. Images from here.
Book description:
"Hovering between formalist inquiry and blunt, physical documentation, 'Moscow Plastic Arts' draws on the transitional material, ideological, and social status of the rapidly commercializing post-soviet metropolis.
Printed in a rich but faded palette on manila tag stock, these photographs suggest and entwine two heroic models - Socialist Realism and High Sixties Modernism - that are both unavoidable and inevitably absent in the work.
Their frustrated evocations illuminate the tragicomical space between idealist belief and material truth."
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