Open AccessREVELATORY POTENTIAL OF THE WORD IN THE LIGHT OF D.A. PRIGOV’S “STIKHOGRAMMY”
Author(s) -
Noemi Albanese
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
sibirskij filologičeskij forum
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2587-7844
DOI - 10.25146/2587-7844-2020-10-2-44
Subject(s) - conceptualism , mainstream , linguistics , word (group theory) , subject (documents) , movement (music) , sociology , history , aesthetics , epistemology , philosophy , political science , computer science , law , library science
The role of the word in totalitarian regimes is crucial, as governments use it to control the masses and to create their own truth and reality. What lies behind this is complete void, which becomes the ground for the Conceptualist movement focusing on the relationship between subject and language. D.A. Prigov is one of the most prominent representatives of conceptualism. His Stikhogrammy, published for the first time in 1985, can be positioned at the junction of verbal and visual art and, combining word and image, they reveal the truth behind the discourse made by Soviet power, by classical literature and the mainstream. The purpose of this article is to show, on the basis of several selected stikhogrammy, the attitude of D.A. Prigov towards the loss of values and how this loss becomes the basis of the project to create a Gesamtkunstwerk.