Rutgers University Press Irina Nakhova: Museum on the Edge

Throughout her extensive career, Russian conceptual artist Irina Nakhova has frequently pushed the limits of what constitutes art and how we experience the art museum. One of her famous early pieces, for instance, transformed a room in her very own Moscow apartment into an art installation. Released in conjunction with Nakhova's first museum retrospective exhibition in the United States, this book includes many full-color illustrations of her work, spanning the entirety of her forty-year career and demonstrating her facility with a variety of media. It also includes essays by a variety of world-renowned curators and art historians, each cataloging Nakhova's artistic innovations and exploring how she deals with themes of everyday life, memory, viewer engagement, and moral responsibility. It concludes with a new interview with Nakhova herself, giving new insight into her creative process and artistic goals. Irina Nakhova: Museum on the Edge provides a vivid look at the work of a visionary artist. Published in partnership with the Zimmerli Museum. About the Author JANE A. SHARP is a professor of art history at Rutgers University and research curator of the Dodge Collection at the Zimmerli Art Museum. Author of the award-winning monograph Russian Modernism between East and West: Natalia Goncharovaand the Moscow Avant-Garde, she has also curated many exhibitions including Thinking Pictures: The Visual Field of Moscow Conceptualism. JULIA TULOVSKY is curator of Russian and Soviet Nonconformist Art at Rutgers University's Zimmerli Art Museum. She formerly served as assistant curator of the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow and as executive director of the Malevich Society in New York, where she remains a board member. Her previous books include Avant-Garde of the 1920s: Textile Designs.