Open Access‘Poor Theatre’, Russian Avant-garde and the Art of Anna Bochkova
Author(s) -
Sophia Oberrauch
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
journal of extreme anthropology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2535-3241
DOI - 10.5617/jea.5382
Subject(s) - exhibition , avant garde , context (archaeology) , art , contemporary art , art history , visual arts , history , performance art , archaeology
A student essay for the Special Student Issue of the Journal of Extreme Anthropology accompanying the art exhibition 'Artist's Waste, Wasted Artists', which opened in Vienna on the 19th of September 2017 and was curated by the students of social anthropology at the University of Vienna. This essay discusses the art of the Viennese based Russian artist Anna Bochkova in the context of the Russian avant-garde.