Moscow Unofficial Art 1970-1990s:Its Commercial Market And Future Scenarios

In the early 1970's Moscow Concept Art and Sots Art were the first art movements who openly opposed the official political art system.Moscow Conceptualism and Sots Art are still popular in contemporary Russian art today.Moscow Concept Art is intellectual art,cynical,and first of all came to life as anti-commercial art,regardless no such thing as an art market existed in the Soviet Union at the time.The Soviet unofficial artists had no access to galleries,museums,or media.ThisthesisisdevotedtostudytheevolutionofmodernChineseandRussianart,due to the change in the socio-cultural,political and economic situation of the two countries.This thesis comprehensively analyzes the development of Moscow unofficial art from the beginning in the70 s,until the90 s.The focus of attention being origin of Moscow unofficial art,development and theoretical study,the impact on Russian and the international art markets,as well as its similarities and differences with the art of China at that time.Overall this is a critical study of the new art trends that occurred from the Moscow Unofficial Art of the 70s-90 s.The relevance of the research is caused by significant changes in the traditional culture and art of China and Russia.This thesis is the first analysis of Moscow Unofficial Art in Chinese.The thesis is based on the latest artisticdevelopments in the world,and also various artistic trends of Soviet unofficial art.It is a comparative analysis of Chinese and Moscow's unofficial art of the 80s-early 90 s.This thesis is also the research of the current decline of Russian contemporary art and the lack of success on the international art market.