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Article: Total Enlightenment: Moscow Conceptual Art.
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- Art Monthly
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- September 1, 2008
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Total Enlightenment: Moscow Conceptual Art
Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt June 21 to September 14
It's 1968. In Paris, students are occupying the Sorbonne, calling for a united front with the working class and the overthrow of de Gaulle, capitalism and everything associated with the decadent bourgeois spectacle of consumption. In New York, the Students for a Democratic Society are battling with police and the Weatherman faction is gaining ground. In Venice, artists and activists are rioting in San Marco, temporarily calling a halt to the biennale. In Moscow, Illich Ramirez Sanchez (alias 'Carlos the Jackal') is hitting the books, trying hard not to get ...