Grois, Boris, Dr. (1947)	Utopiia i obmen. 1. Stil´Stalin. 2. O novom. 3. Stat´i. [M.,] Izdatel´stvo 'Znak'. 373 p., bibliography	€40,00

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8 vo, original covers. GOOD TO VERY GOOD. Slight wear of time. FIRST EDITION.GOOD TO VERY GOOD. Slight wear of time Boris Efimovich Grois [Groys] is an art critic, media theorist, and philosopher. He is currently a Global Distinguished Professor of Russian and Slavic Studies at New York University and Senior Research Fellow at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design in Karlsruhe, Germany. He has been a professor of Aesthetics, Art History, and Media Theory at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design/Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe and an internationally acclaimed Professor at a number of universities in the United States and Europe, including the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Southern California and the Courtauld Institute of Art London. During his time in the Soviet Union, Groys participated in the unofficial cultural scenes of Moscow and Leningrad, publishing in “37,” “Chasy,” and other samizdat magazines. In 1979 he published the essay “Moscow Romantic Conceptualism” in the art magazine A-YA, in which he coined the term applied to the art movement “Moscow Conceptualism.” Groys is a member of the Association Internationale des Critiques d'Art (AICAO), and has served as a fellow of numerous institutions including International Research Center for Cultural Studies (IFK) in Vienna, Austria, Harvard University Art Museum, and the University of Pittsburg. In 2001 he served as Director of the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. From 2003 to 2004 he headed the research program Post-Communist Condition in cooperation with Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe and the Federal Cultural Foundation of Germany.--Adapted from Wikipedia. P00213