A thoughtful, incisive, and original study of Moscow conceptualism. This is now the foremost book in the field on
its subject-matter.

Matthew Jesse Jackson, Professor of Art History, Theater and Performance Studies, Visual Arts, and the College, University of Chicago, USA

This long overdue reassessment of Moscow conceptualism offers a crucial piece to the puzzle of our
understanding of experimental art practices in late Soviet Russia. It weaves together new considerations of
postmodernism, conceptual art and performance art, with the particular brand of participation practiced by the
art group The Nest.

Amy Bryzgel, Professor of Art History, Northeastern University, USA; author of Performing the East: Performance Art in Russia, Latvia and Poland Since 1980 (2013)

At last a book on the Moscow conceptualism I remember: fun, skeptical, and continually devising new methods
of making art. And not sectarian either, but open to dialogue and understanding. An eyewitness account of the
most radical and interesting groups of the time-the Nest and SZ.

Yuri Albert, conceptual artist, Germany and Russia

A fascinating and challenging reassessment of an important artistic movement that has thus far seemed exhaustively covered.

The Russian Review

An important, timely contribution on Russian conceptualism to European art history, exploring links between the
revolutionary avant-garde and contemporary protest art. Drawing on artist interviews, Moscow Conceptualism
provides a unique insight into the significance of art activism under authoritarian regimes, and its important role
in society.

Katarzyna Kosmala, Chair in Culture, Media and Visual Art, the University of the West of Scotland

Nicholas' book is a bold effort to rethink the history of Moscow conceptualism from the ground up.
Suspicious of canonical orthodoxies, the author reveals with rigor and precision that the phenomenon we all
thought we had fully grasped is in fact terra incognita.

Sven Spieker, Department of History of Art and Architecture, the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA; author of The Big Archive: Art from Bureaucracy (2008)