I Am Not I

Boris Mikhailov

BOO 2252 U
€45,00
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CONDITION & NOTES
Very Good / Small smudge on the front cover. Bold inscription by the publisher on the title page.

TYPE PUBLICATION YEAR
Hardcover

2016

EDITION LANGUAGE
First

English

PUBLISHER DIMENSIONS
Mörel 33 x 24 x 1.5 cm
CONDITION
Very Good / Small smudge on the front cover. Bold inscription by the publisher on the title page.

TYPE
Hardcover

PUBLICATION YEAR
2016

EDITION
First

LANGUAGE
English

PUBLISHER
Mörel

DIMENSIONS
33 x 24 x 1.5 cm

ABOUT

I Am Not I brings together 33 tritone images from Boris Mikhailov's iconic series of self portraits made as the Soviet Union collapsed.
"In describing the genesis of I Am Not I in the political context of the aftermath of the collapse of the Soviet state, Mikhailov has suggested that he was performing a kind of anti-heroic riposte to the muscular confidence of Soviet-era monumental iconography.
I Am Not I, a thoroughly unacceptable series of propositions on masculinity, libido and the egoideal, is not only an artist’s performance for the camera, but a deliberately self-cancelling account of the impossible contradictions of authorship and identity."
– Extract from text by Simon Baker