Aesthetics of bad taste

The author writes in the preface: “I was not going to write this book. I wanted to write another. But I wrote this. And I wrote for a long time. In short, archives, memory, past are to blame for everything. The time is to blame.”
Throughout the 90s, Valery Bondarenko recorded fleeting considerations about the current film process. Something was published, something dusted on the shelf. The materials accumulated and demanded systematization and sometimes “cruel” editing. “The book wanted a light, cheerful, with a distinct flavor of diet, fragmentary, in the spirit of the described era, aphoristic and carefree. The book, where everything is serious and not seriously,” the author says.
“Aesthetics …” really turned out to be interesting. The “violent” atmosphere of the 90s in the cinema, described in the “aesthetics …”, is also reflected in the postmodern collages of Hermann Grekov. At the request of Bondarenko, he softened the message of his work against the backdrop of “caricature” scandals. Perhaps not all of them are successful (there are frankly obscene), but for the most part it is quite “…

Publisher
Bahrakh-M, 2006
Genre
Culturology. Art history