Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures vii
4. Preface xi
5. Introduction 1
6. Culture, “I,” “It,” and Favorsky’s Light (“Rhombus”) (1980) 10
7. Nozdrev and Pliushkin (1981) 24
8. ... Everything Is in the Turning of the Pages (1981) 31
9. On Emptiness (1982) 35
10. The Creator Looks at His Work Twice (1982) 43
11. Dust, Dirt, and Garbage (Dust as an Object of Contemplation) (1982) 45
12. Discourse on the Perception of the Three Layers, Three Levels, into Which an Ordinary, Anonymous Written Product–Notices, Slips, Menus, Bills, Tickets, etc.–May Be Broken Down (1982) 50
13. Epistemological Thirst (1982) 54
14. Not Everyone Will Be Taken into the Future (1983) 57
15. New Rhombus (1983) 60
16. Without Culture (1983) 63
17. Park of Culture (1984) 66
18. From The 1960s and the 1970s: Notes on Unofficial Life in Moscow (1982–1984) 68
19. The Artist-Character (1985) 139
20. From An Apologia for Personalism in the Art of the 1960s: An Impassioned Monologue on 23 June 1986 (1986) 155
21. Conceptualism in Russia (1986) 203
22. Edge, Border, Crack (1986) 209
23. Art Has No Unloved Children (1987) 218
24. How I Became a Character Myself (1989) 226
25. A Story about a “Culturally Relocated” Individual (1994) 230
26. From On “Total” Installation (1995) 246
27. Text as the Foundation of Visual Expression (1995) 253
28. On Risk (1997) 255
29. On Cézannism (1997) 257
30. The Spirit of Music (1997) 260
31. Public Projects, or the Spirit of a Place (2001) 263
32. Why Was It Necessary to Use the “Character” Device for the Exhibition Rather Than Signing My Own Name? (2004) 270
33. Nikolai Petrovich (Commentary) (2008) 273
34. From Catalog (2009) 276
35. Translation Credits 357
36. Bibliography 361
37. Index 363