Variations of the Other: A Digital‑Analog Monograph on the Work of Vladimir Yankilevsky

Vladimir Yankilevsky is one of the leading representatives of the Moscow “non‑conformist” art scene's first generation. After departing from the academic canon of Soviet art during the late 1950s, Yankilevsky begins to develop a unique symbolic language whose main theme is the relatioship between the (male) self and the (female) Other. The variation of this central theme leads to a broad artistic spectrum. It includes large multi‑panelled relief paintings and assemblages, as well as extensive cycles of paintings, drawings, and etchings. From the mid‑1980s onward, Yankilevsky has reworked these variations through the media of assemblage, and later, collage.