Vladimir Borisovich Yankilevsky ( Russian: Владимир Борисович Янкилевский) (February 15, 1938 in

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– January 4, 2018 in

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) was a

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artist known mostly for his participation in the

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movement of the 1960s through the 1980s. Perhaps his most famous works are his

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s, works that are difficult to classify, occupying a unique middle ground between

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, and

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, similar in some ways to Rauschenberg's combines. On the most basic level, these works use disorienting, often nightmarish imagery to paint a picture of restrictive mental states associated with daily life in the

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, and with the human condition in general. He is also known for having participated in the Manezh Art Exhibit of 1962, during which

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famously chastised the Nonconformist Art Movement as degenerate. Yankilevsky last lived in

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with his wife Rimma.

Bibliography

*Yankilevsky, Vladimir. The State Russian Museum Presents: Vladimir Yankilevsky. Moment of Eternity. (Exh. cat.). Yevgenia Petrova. St. Petersburg: Palace Editions, 2007. (International) * The Experimental Group: Ilya Kabakov, Moscow Conceptualism, Soviet Avant-Gardes By Matthew Jesse Jackson * Forbidden Art: The Postwar Russian Avant-garde, Art Center College of Design (Pasadena, Calif.), Gosudarstvennyĭ russkiĭ muzeĭ (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Curatorial Assistance, Incorporated, 1998 Original from the University of Michigan Digitized Nov 9, 2007 , 9781881616917 Length 326 pages

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