The Man Who Flew into Space from His Apartment
  • monograph
  • pictorial wrappers
  • offset-printed
  • sewn bound
  • black-and-white & color
  • 20.9 x 14.8 cm.
  • 62 pp.
  • edition size unknown
  • unsigned and unnumbered
  • ISBN 1846380049

The Man Who Flew into Space from His Apartment

[Paperback]

Ilya Kabakov, Boris Groys

The Man Who Flew into Space from His Apartment

description

Part of Afterall Books "One Work" series in which one work of art is written about in depth. In this volume Boris Groys investigates Ilya Kabakov's "The Man Who Flew into Space from His Apartment." "Ilya Kabakov's 1988 installation The Man Who Flew into Space from His Apartment presents an isolated dreamer who develops an impossible project - to fly alone in outer space. Having built a makeshift slingshot, the hero apparently catapults through the ceiling of his shabby room and vanishes into space. For Boris Groys, The Man Who Flew into Space from his Apartment presents an individual appropriation of a collective Soviet project and the official Soviet propaganda connected to it - where cosmic vision and the political project of the communist revolution are seen as indissoluble." -- publisher's statement.

London, United Kingdom: Afterall Books,
Permalink
$16.68
Condition:  New
$13.00
Condition:  Used