Anti-shows : APTART 1982-84 /

A collective of artists, a gallery and a movement, APTART was a series of self-organized 'anti-shows' that took place in the a private apartment and outdoor spaces in Moscow between 1982 and 1984.

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	Bard College. Center for Curatorial Studies
Other Authors:	Tupitsyn, Margarita (Editor), Agamov-Tupit︠s︡yn, Viktor (Editor), Morris, David (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	London : Afterall Books in association with the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, 2017.
Series:	Exhibition histories.
Subjects:	APTART (Moscow, Russia) > History. Art, Russian > Russia (Federation) > Moscow > 20th century > History. Artistic collaboration > Russia (Federation) > Moscow > 20th century. Alternative spaces (Arts facilities) > Russia (Federation) > Moscow > 20th century. Dissident art > Russia (Federation) > Moscow > 20th century. Curatorship > Russia (Federation) > Moscow > 20th century.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: anti-shows / David Morris
Imagine no shows / Margarita Tupitsyn
Airborne in a no-fly zone / Victor Tupitsyn
APTART, anti-shows 1982-84
Call into the void / Nikita Alekseev
Interviews
Moscow does not believe in new wave art / Richard Goldstein (1983)
Artist-character / Ilya Kabakov (1985)
Havana-Moscow: reflections on a Marxist-Leninist artist exchange / Manuel Alcayde
Why I wanted to show APTART in New York/If a tree falls in the forest... / Valerie Smith
MANI: an experiment in modelling cultural space / Alexandra Danilova and Elena Kuprina-Lyakhovich.