Ilya Kabakov: Catalogue Raisonne Paintings 1957-2008

By Robert Storr and Boris Groys

This two-volume, slipcased set presents the first complete overview of iconic New York-based, Russian-born artist Ilya Kabakov's paintings. Centered around 130 works produced by Kabakov in Moscow between 1957 and 1987--when he used imaginary characters in his paintings to portray the banality of everyday life in the Soviet Union, providing both a parable on humankind and sardonic commentary on the system's unfulfilled promises and undelivered utopias--this comprehensive catalogue raisonn follows the publication of a two-volume catalogue raisonn of Kabakov's installations in 2004 and includes important essays by curator and critic Robert Storr and acclaimed late-Soviet Postmodern art and literature expert Boris Groys.
Ilya Kabokov was born in 1933 in Dnepropetrovsk, Russia, and immigrated to the U.S. in 1988. Kabokov is a contemporary of other "unofficial" Russian artists like Komar & Melamid--who also immigrated to the U.S.--and Oleg Vassilyev and Ivan Chuikov, who remained.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3866781733
• ISBN13: 9783866781733
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: Kerber Verlag
• Length: 816 Pages
• Weight: 12.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 3.7" x 9.6" x 12.4"