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Video Art
Read more...The history of Russian video art began in 1985, when artist Andrey Monastyrsky asked Sabine Haensgen – a doctoral student from West Germany, who had gone to Russia to collect material for her PhD the...
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Photography
Read more...The title Conceptual photography refers less to its roots in the traditions of Conceptualism and more to its distance from photo-journalism and photo-documentalism. This implies photography and all f...
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Neo-Academism
Read more...In the 1990s, one of the leading phenomena in the art of St Petersburg was the piquant and refined aesthetics of Timur Novikov ’s New Academy movement, which addressed such issues as the “beautiful”,...
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