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John BASCOM and the Origins of the Wisconsin Idea

John BASCOM and the Origins of the Wisconsin Idea

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Biographies GeneralGeneral Education

ISBN10: 0299307840
ISBN13: 9780299307844
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Published: Feb 27 2018
Pages: 248
Weight: 1.45
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
During the late Soviet period, the art collective known as the Mitki emerged in Leningrad. Producing satirical poetry and prose, pop music, cinema, and conceptual performance art, this group fashioned a playful, emphatically countercultural identity with affinities to European avant-garde and American hippie movements.

More broadly, Alexandar Mihailovic shows, the Mitki pioneered a form of political protest art that has since become a centerpiece of activism in post-Soviet Russia, most visibly today in groups such as Pussy Riot. He draws on extensive interviews with members of the collective and illuminates their critique of the authoritarian state, militarism, and social strictures from the Brezhnev years to the present.

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