Tag Archives: contemporary art

Prigov’s concrete poems get bigger

Posted on March 10, 2015 by Jacob Edmond

One of Dmitri Prigov’s Stikhogrammy (poemographs or versographs) about which I write in A Common Strangeness has been blown up to the size of a multistory apartment building as part of an art project in Belyaevo, an area in Moscow … Continue reading →

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Dmitri Prigov’s iterative poetics

Posted on December 2, 2014 by Jacob Edmond

My article on Dmitri Prigov’s “iterative poetics” (free download to 17 Jan. 2015) is just out in a special issue of Russian Literature, which also includes illuminating articles by Mary Nicholas, Ksenya Gurshtein, and Dennis Ioffe, who edited the issue. … Continue reading →

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Post-Post-Cultural Revolution

Posted on October 17, 2013 by Jacob Edmond

Yang Lian and Yo Yo’s essay “Stepping outside Post-Cultural Revolution: Contemporary Chinese Painting” has recently appeared in the online literary journal Body. Chen Jung-hsuan and I translated the essay at Yang Lian’s request, and it has been subsequently edited by … Continue reading →

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Burnt Copies

Posted on March 12, 2013 by Jacob Edmond

The final post in my Jacket2 commentary on “Iterations” takes a very local turn. Like Prigov’s Little Coffins, New Zealand artist Campbell Walker’s 2012 work The Crime LINKS in the Smoke is an undead work that plays on the print book … Continue reading →

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