The Art Books of Yevgeniy Fiks

By: Owen Hatherley

Conceptual artist Yevgeny Fiks explores the relationship between the Communist world and the West, hoping to shed light on what was suppressed in each Cold War system.

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A photographic guide to the cruising sites of the Soviet capital; a compendium of maquettes of monuments to the United States’ victory in the Cold War; dictionaries of international queer slang and Soviet gay argot; a comprehensive gazetteer, with an accompanying fold-out map, of ‘Communist New York’; an archive of Soviet propaganda depictions of African-Americans. […]

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A photographic guide to the cruising sites of the Soviet capital; a compendium of maquettes of monuments to the United States’ victory in the Cold War; dictionaries of international queer slang and Soviet gay argot; a comprehensive gazetteer, with an accompanying fold-out map, of ‘Communist New York’; an archive of Soviet propaganda depictions of African-Americans. […]

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A photographic guide to the cruising sites of the Soviet capital; a compendium of maquettes of monuments to the United States’ victory in the Cold War; dictionaries of international queer slang and Soviet gay argot; a comprehensive gazetteer, with an accompanying fold-out map, of ‘Communist New York’; an archive of Soviet propaganda depictions of African-Americans. […]

A photographic guide to the cruising sites of the Soviet capital; a compendium of maquettes of monuments to the United States’ victory in the Cold War; dictionaries of international queer slang and Soviet gay argot; a comprehensive gazetteer, with an accompanying fold-out map, of ‘Communist New York’; an archive of Soviet propaganda depictions of African-Americans. […]

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