In the Sphere of The Soviets

Dr. Charles Merewether is an art historian, the author and the curator who has worked in Asia, Australia, Europe and the Americas. Merewether has worked and lived in Tbilisi, Georgia, over the past 4 years. He is the author of books and many articles about contemporary art, including his books State of Play (2017), After Memory: The Art of Milenko Prvacki and Under Construction: Ai Weiwei (2008). He was the co-editor of After the Event (2010) and the editor of both Art, Anti-Art, Non-Art: Experimentations in the Public Sphere in Postwar Japan 1950-1970, (2007) and The Archive (2006).  

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2:  Specter of the Soviet Union.- Chapter 3: The Thaw: After Stalin, Soviet Union and Ukraine.- Chapter 4: State of Play: Georgian art before/after independence.- Chapter 5: Rise and Fall of Monuments.- Chapter 6: Contemporary Russia.- Chapter 7: After Maidan: Contemporary Ukraine.- Chapter 8: Contemporary Georgia: Here and There.- Chapter 9: Lost to the Future: Central Asia.- Chapter 10: Towards a Horizontality (Memory, Margins and Borders).- Chapter 11: Russian Affinities and its Correspondences.- Chapter 12: The Interactivity of Energies and Montage.