Artists in the Soviet Union faced a difficult choice: either join the official academies and make art that conformed to the state\'s aesthetic and ideological dictates, or attempt to develop alternative artistic practices and spheres for exhibiting their work.
Somewhere between drawings and novel.
In the early 1970s, conceptual artists Ilya Kabakov and Viktor Pivovarov chose the latter option, turning their limited resources into an asset by pioneering an entirely new artistic genre: the album.
Artists in the Soviet Union faced a difficult choice: either join the official academies and make art that conformed to the state\'s aesthetic and ideological dictates, or attempt to develop alternative artistic practices and spheres for exhibiting their work
