Summer Seminars Program: Suggested Bibliography

Communal Art in Soviet and post-Soviet Contexts

Victor Tupitsyn, The Musicological Unconscious, The MIT Press. 2009

Ilya Kabakov, “From the Communal Kitchen: A Conversation with Ilya Kabakov”, Arts, October, 1991: 51

Boym, Svetlana, The Future of Nostalgia. New York: BasicBooks; Plymouth: Plybridge, 2002.

Buck-Morss, Susan, Dreamworld and Catastrophe: The Passing of Mass Utopia in the East and West. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2000.

Boris Groys, (with Max Hollein) Dream Factory Communism. Frankfurt: Hatje Cantz Publishers; Bilingual edition, 2003.

--Art Power, MIT Press: Boston, Massachusetts, 2008.

--“Back from the Future”, in Third Text, vol. 17., issue 4, 2003, pp. 323-331.

Manchev, Boyan, Anti-Modernism - Radical Revisions of Collective Identity, Vol. four (Discourses of Collective Identity in Central and Southeast Europe), Central European University Press, 2007.

Victor Misiano, “The Cultural Contradictions of the Tusovka” in Moscow Art Magazine, digest, 1995-2003.

Victor Voronkov, “Life & Death of the Public Sphere in the Soviet Union”, in Tatiana
Goryucheva, Eric Kluitenberg (Eds.), Debates & Credits (Media / Art / Public
Domain). Cat. De Balie – Centre for Culture and Politics, Amsterdam, 2002.

Theories of (Aesthetic) Communities


Ranciere, Jacques, The Politics of Aesthetics. Continuum: London, New York, 2004.

--“Aesthetic Separation, Aesthetic Community” in Art and Research: Journal of
Ideas, Contexts and Methods, vol. 2, no. 1, Summer, 2008.

Jean-Luc Nancy, Inoperative Community, University Of Minnesota Press; 1 edition (June 1, 1991)

Vijay Devadas & Jane Mummery, “Community Without Community”, in http://www.borderlands.net.au/vol6no1_2007/devadasmummery_intro.htm

Borderlands, volume 6, number 1, 2007 - online

Giorgio Agamben, Coming Community, Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press; 1 edition (February 26, 1993)