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by Михаил Эпштейн, Илья Кабаков

Genres: Russia

342 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2010

About the author

Российский и американский философ, филолог, культуролог, литературовед, литературный критик, лингвист, эссеист. Заслуженный профессор теории культуры и русской литературы университета Эмори (Атланта, США). Профессор русской литературы и теории культуры и руководитель Центра гуманитарных инноваций (The Centre For Humanities Innovation) Даремского университета (Великобритания) (2012—2015), Член российского и американского Пен-центров и Академии российской современной словесности. Окончил филологический факультет МГУ.

Автор 39 книг и более 800 статей и эссе, переведённых на 24 иностранных языка (немецкий, испанский, китайский, японский, корейский и др.). Основные темы исследований: методология гуманитарных наук, постмодернизм, русская литература, поэтика (в частности, литературных архетипов и теории метареализма), философия модальностей, теория советской идеологии и философии, семиотика повседневности, проективная лингвистика, перспективы развития языка и мысли.

Лауреат Премии Андрея Белого 1991 года, Института социальных изобретений (Лондон, 1995), Международного конкурса эссеистики (Берлин — Веймар, 1999), премии журнала «Звезда» (1999), премии Liberty за вклад в русско-американскую культуру и развитие культурных связей между Россией и США 2000.

Reviews

[Pavel · Rating 3 out of 5]

As a kid I was living in a communal apartment with my parents, with 5 or 6 other families on the highest floor of an old, XIX century building. There were artists' workshops above us in the garret. Since my parents were dissident-like bogema art people, artists from above were hanging out in our room almost each evening and making unoffical exibitions from time to time. Among them I've remembered Ilja Kabakov kind round man with a warm smile and works I like more then anyone else's. He painted me a hare once. If I had brains to keep the picture up untill now I could sell this hare for thousands USD.

Another group of people who were hanging out in my parents's room was five of six bookish looking people who were gathering and writing essays together on some preliminary choosen topic. It was important not to make any noise while they write, so I was sitting in a chair and looking how they write. it was some kind of meditation practice for me. Among them Mikhail Epstein was the smartest and he always talked to me and had a lot of kids who also visited sometimes and played with me.

Today Ilja Kabakov is one of the most acclaimed NY artists and Mikhail Epstein is a professor at Emory and authour of many amazing books about conteporary art, post-modernism, Russian literature and other things.

So I could'nt miss this book, which is a collection of different things, ideas and concepts which play important role in Kabakov's life and art. Epstein serves the ball and sometimes express his opinions as well. Interesting book.