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Record Nr.

UNINA9910792707403321

Autore

Harutyunyan Angela

Titolo

The political aesthetics of the Armenian avant-garde : The journey of the ‘painterly real', 1987–2004 / / Angela Harutyunyan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester : , : Manchester University Press, 2017

Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2019

©2017

ISBN

1-5261-1439-9

1-5261-2407-6

1-5261-1438-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (202 pages)

Collana

Rethinking Art's Histories

Disciplina

700.411

Soggetti

Politics and government

Avant-garde (Aesthetics)

Art - Political aspects

Art, Armenian

Art - Political aspects - Armenia (Republic)

Avant-garde (Aesthetics) - Armenia - History - 20th century

Art, Armenian - 20th century

History

Asia Armenia

Armenia (Republic)

Armenia (Republic) Politics and government

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2017.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 268-278) and index.

Sommario/riassunto

This book addresses late-Soviet and post-Soviet art in Armenia in the context of turbulent transformations from the late 1980s to 2004. It explores the emergence of 'contemporary art' in Armenia from within and in opposition to the practices, aesthetics and institutions of Socialist Realism and National Modernism. This historical study outlines the politics (liberal democracy), aesthetics (autonomous art secured by



the gesture of the individual artist), and ethics (ideals of absolute freedom and radical individualism) of contemporary art in Armenia and points towards its limitations. Through the historical investigation, a theory of post-Soviet art historiography is developed, one that is based on a dialectic of rupture and continuity in relation to the Soviet past. As the first English-language study on contemporary art in Armenia, the book is of prime interest for artists, scholars, curators and critics interested in post-Soviet art and culture and in global art historiography.