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OverviewUkrainian photographer Sergey Bratkov is internationally acclaimed for his powerful images of contemporary Russia and expressive portraits. But despite his many global exhibitions, his work has rarely been published. Sergey Bratkov remedies this lacuna with a survey of his influential photographic oeuvre. Raised and educated in the Soviet Union, Bratkov has spent his career training his penetrating camera gaze on the fractured lives and bleak structures that pervade the region. Some of the images presented here are unsparing documents of daily life following the collapse of the Soviet Union. Poverty, prostitution, and homelessness are only a few of the issues he tackles through his striking photos. In his expressive portraits, he strips away the ideological clichés of the communist years?and subsequent bland slogans of hope for Eastern European capitalism?to reveal the complex reality. Featured essays by art scholars draw out the social and artistic criticism embedded in Bratkov?s work, while not denying the powerful lyricism of his images. The catalog to accompany the upcoming exhibition at the Fotomuseum Winterthur, Sergey Bratkov will be essential for art scholars and historians alike. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Thomas Seelig , Mikhail Ryklin , Bart De Baere , Boris BudenPublisher: Scheidegger und Spiess AG, Verlag Imprint: Scheidegger und Spiess AG, Verlag Dimensions: Width: 20.00cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 25.00cm Weight: 0.666kg ISBN: 9783858812186ISBN 10: 3858812188 Pages: 208 Publication Date: 18 August 2017 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Awaiting stock  The supplier is currently out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out for you. Language: English & German Table of ContentsReviewsThe bewildering paradoxes of life in post-Communist Russia--the tension between the alluring promises of freedom and the iron constraints of the market economy--are the foci of Sergey Bratkov's oeuvre. . . . [The retrospective] Sergey Bratkov: Glory Days is accompanied by an elegant catalog, offering an overview of this oeuvre--a body of work with such a remarkable sense of urgency that much comparable contemporary photography seems pale and tepid in comparison. --Aperture "The bewildering paradoxes of life in post-Communist Russia--the tension between the alluring promises of freedom and the iron constraints of the market economy--are the foci of Sergey Bratkov's oeuvre. . . . [The retrospective] Sergey Bratkov: Glory Days is accompanied by an elegant catalog, offering an overview of this oeuvre--a body of work with such a remarkable sense of urgency that much comparable contemporary photography seems pale and tepid in comparison.-- ""Aperture""" Author InformationThomas Seelig is curator of the permanent collection at the Fotomuseum Winterthur. Marta Kuzma is head of the Office for Contemporary Art Norway in Oslo, Norway and has been curator of the Manifest 5 in San Sebastian, Spain, in 2004 and of the Soros Center for Contemporary Art in Kiev, Ukraine. Mikhail Ryklin is a Russian philosopher and writer. He contributes regularly to Lettre Internationale and lives in Moscow. Bart De Baere is director of the Museum van Hededaagse Kunst Antwerpen (Museum of Contemporary Art) in Antwerp, Belgium. He has been co-curator of the Documenta IX in Kassel, Germany, in 1992. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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