Everything Has Already Been Written
ISBN: 9780810139039
Platform/Publisher: Project MUSE / Northwestern University Press
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Chapters; Download: Chapters
Subjects: Conceptualism.; Conceptual art; Experimental poetry; Russian poetry;


Innovative poets such as Vsevolod Nekrasov, Lev Rubinstein, and Dmitry Prigov are among the most prominent literary figures of Russia in the 1980s and 1990s, yet they are virtually unknown outside Russia. The same is true of the numerous active Russian performance art groups, especially the pioneering Collective Actions group led by the brilliantly inventive Andrei Monastyrsky. Everything Has Already Been Written strives to make Moscow Conceptualism more accessible, to break the language barrier and to foster understanding among an international readership by thoroughly discussing a broad range of specific works and theories. Janecek's study is the first comprehensive analysis of Moscow Conceptualist poetry and theory, vital for an understanding of Russian culture in the post‑Conceptualist era.

GERALD JANECEK is a professor emeritus of Russian at the University of Kentucky. He is the author of The Look of Russian Literature: Avant ‑ Garde Visual Experiments, 1900 - 1930 ; ZAUM: The Transrational Poetry of Russian Futurism ; and Sight and Sound Entwined: Studies of the New Russian Poetry ; and the editor of Staging the Image: Dmitry Prigov as Artist and Writer .

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