Dmitry Prigov

Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner

Forbidden Art: The Postwar Russian Avant-Garde, New York: Distributed Art Publishers, 1998, p. 45, a similar work illustrated
Yevgeny Barabanov, "Image and Text: Russian Art of the Post-Avant-Garde," in Adaptation and Negation of Socialist Realism: Contemporary Soviet Art, Ridgefield, Conn.: Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, 1990, exhibition catalogue, pp. 9, 34-35
Dmitrij Prigow: Arbeiten 1975-1995, Mülheim an der Ruhr: Städtisches Museum, 1995, exhibition catalogue
Natalia Tamruchi, "Moskovskii kontseptualizm: Istoriia slov," Voprosy iskusstvoznaniia, 4/93, pp. 206-223

On paper. The sheets are a little dirty and yellowed. One has a pinhole to each corner. There are very minor surface stains as well as adhesive stains on the reverse. Sold unframed.
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Dmitri Prigov, who was a key figure in the Almanakh group of poet-performers, was known as both a poet and a graphic artist. He initially studied sculpture at the Institute of Decorative and Applied Arts (the former Stroganov School) in Moscow and since 1970 has produced numerous poems, works on paper, and installations. His poetry collections developing Conceptualist ideas were published in samizdat (self-published) form. Many of his works make use of the methods of visual and concrete poetry, exploring the verbal and visual properties of written language and in the process releasing the latter from its traditional role as mere verbal description. Prigov has remarked that he was never a dissident artist, and was concerned only with the aesthetic and cultural aspects of art.