Moscow Plastic Arts

Title: Moscow Plastic Arts

Photographer/s: Nick Muellner

Date of publication: November 2005

Place of publication: Philadelphia, PA

Dimensions: 5.75 x 8.25 inches

Edition size: 1250

Type of binding: soft cover, perfect binding

Number of pages: 48

Type of paper: manila card stock

Number of pictures: 22

Type of printing: 4-color offset

Printer: Eastwood Litho, Syracuse, NY

Publisher: Arcadia University

ISBN: 978-976215400

Category: artist book

Price: $15

Summary: Hovering between formalist inquiry and blunt, physical documentation, Moscow Plastic Arts draws on the transitional material, ideological, and social status of the rapidly commercializing post-soviet metropolis. Printed in a rich but faded palette on manila tag stock, these photographs suggest and entwine two heroic models—Socialist Realism and High Sixties Modernism—that are both unavoidable and inevitably absent in the work. Their frustrated evocations illuminate the tragicomical space between idealist belief and material truth.

Date and place of birth of photographer/s: 1969, Washington, D.C.

Website: http://www.nicholasmuellner.com/Nicholas_Muellner/home.html

Book link: http://www.a-jumpbooks.com/Muellner_Moscow.html

Donated by: A-Jump Books

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