Breaking Frames: Twenty-Five Years of Independent Art in and from Russia
Hardcover
Series: Cherry Orchard Books
Art Criticism & TheoryArt HistoryRussian & Former Soviet Union Art
Publisher Price: $79.95
Publisher: Cherry Orchard Books
Published: Sep 22 2026
Pages: 526
Weight: 2.01
Height: 1.13 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Breaking Frames: Twenty-Five Years of Independent Art in and from Russia is the first English-language survey of independent contemporary Russian art. It tells the dramatic stories of freedom-seeking artists that emerged between 2000 and 2025. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russian artists first sought to engage with the modern art traditions from which they had long been isolated. Over the following decades, they developed an independent and self-confident artistic language. Yet this flourishing scene was shattered by a new era of censorship and repression. Since 2022, many artists have been forced into exile, while others continue to create under increasingly hostile conditions. Organized around themes rather than chronology, the book introduces Russia's leading contemporary artists while tracing the rise, transformation, and uncertain future of the country's independent art scene.
Also in
Russian & Former Soviet Union Art
Frédéric Chaubin. Cccp. Cosmic Communist Constructions Photographed. 45th Ed.
Chaubin, Frédéric
Hardcover
The Avant-Gardists: Artists in Revolt in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union 1917-1935
Scheijen, Sjeng
Hardcover
Russian Impressionists and Post-Impressionists: Light, color, and landscapes of a changing nation
Guerman, Mikhail
Hardcover
The Icon and the Square: Russian Modernism and the Russo-Byzantine Revival
Taroutina, Maria
Hardcover
The Russian painters of water: Seascapes and maritime visions in Russian painting
Lyall, Sutherland
Hardcover
The Afterlife of Discarded Objects: Memory and Forgetting in a Culture of Waste
Andrievskikh, Natalia
Guruianu, Andrei
Paperback
Russian Art Coloring Book: Russian Masterpieces from Shishkin to Vasnetsov
Smolniy, Nicolas
Paperback
Google Drive And Docs In 1 Hour: Beginners Guide to Mastering Google Drive and Docs with Illustrations
Richard, Derrick
Paperback
Ivan Chichkine: Les forêts russes et la beauté silencieuse
Shuvalova, Irina
Charles, Victoria
Hardcover
Culture and Communication: Signs in Flux. an Anthology of Major and Lesser-Known Works
Lotman, Yuri
Paperback
The Peoples of the Great North: Inuit, Sami, and the traditions of Arctic peoples
Federova, Marina
Gorbatcheva, Valentina
Hardcover
Voiceless Vanguard: The Infantilist Aesthetic of the Russian Avant-Garde
Weld, Sara Pankenier
Paperback
Beyond Fabergé: Imperial Russian Jewelry
Schimmelpenninck Van Der Oye, David
Betteley, Marie
Hardcover
Fast Forward: The Aesthetics and Ideology of Speed in Russian Avant-Garde Culture, 1910-1930
Harte, Timothy
Paperback
Malevich and Interwar Modernism: Russian Art and the International of the Square
Forgács, Éva
Paperback
Fade from Red: The Cold War Ex-Enemy in Russian and American Film 1990-2005
Helena Goscilo, Margaret B. Goscilo
Paperback
Увлеченность искусство&#
Мильман, В&#
Paperback
The Postsocialist Contemporary: The Institutionalization of Artistic Practice in Eastern Europe After 1989
Esanu, Octavian
Hardcover
Transition in Post-Soviet Art: The Collective Actions Group Before and After 1989
Esanu, Octavian
Hardcover
Voiceless Vanguard: The Infantilist Aesthetic of the Russian Avant-Garde
Weld, Sara Pankenier
Hardcover
Picturing Russia's Men: Masculinity and Modernity in Nineteenth-Century Painting
Leigh, Allison
Paperback
What Does It Mean to Be Post-Soviet?: Decolonial Art from the Ruins of the Soviet Empire
Tlostanova, Madina
Hardcover
Malevich and Interwar Modernism: Russian Art and the International of the Square
Forgács, Éva
Hardcover
Art Of Siberia: How the peoples of Siberia carved out their world between ice, fire, and spirit
Gorbatcheva, Valentina
Federova, Marina
Hardcover
The Icon and the Square: Russian Modernism and the Russo-Byzantine Revival
Taroutina, Maria
Hardcover
Architecture of Oblivion: Ruins and Historical Consciousness in Modern Russia
Schönle, Andreas
Hardcover
The Icon and the Square: Russian Modernism and the Russo-Byzantine Revival
Taroutina, Maria
Paperback
Encyclopédie des peintres russes et soviétiques. Vol. I: A-D (planches illustrées)
Page, Alexandre
Paperback
Art and Commerce in Late Imperial Russia: The Peredvizhniki, a Partnership of Artists
Shabanov, Andrey
Paperback
The Afterlife of Discarded Objects: Memory and Forgetting in a Culture of Waste
Guruianu, Andrei
Andrievskikh, Natalia
Hardcover
The Secret Police of Russia: Neglectful Treatment, Cooperation, and Giving in (2022 Guide for Beginners)
Booth, Marc
Paperback
The Search for Forever Amber: Presented to the '81 Club Monday 20 March 2006 by Mrs. Alan R. Marsh
Marsh, Joan
Paperback
At the Crossroads of the Senses: The Synaesthetic Metaphor Across the Arts in European Modernism
Dimova, Polina
Hardcover
The Hungarian Avant-Garde and Socialism: The Art of the Second Public Sphere
Cseh-Varga, Katalin
Paperback
