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'Dmitri Aleksandrovich Prigov' (Cyrillic: Дми́трий Алекса́ндрович При́гов) (5 November 1940 – 16 July 2007Dmitri Prigov, leader of conceptualist school, dies at age 66 news agency AP via ''International Herald Tribune'', 16 July 2007) was a Russian writer and artist. Prigov was a dissident during the era of the Soviet Union and was briefly sent to a psychiatric hospital in 1986.''New York Times'' "Dmitri Prigov, 66, Poet Who Challenged Soviet Authority, Dies" July 20 2007
Born in Moscow, Russian SFSR, Prigov started writing poetry as a teenager. He was trained as a sculptor, however, at the Stroganov Art Institute in Moscow and later worked as an architect as well as designing sculptures for municipal parks.
Prigov and his friend Lev Rubinstein were leaders of the conceptual art school started in the 1960s viewing performance as a form of art. He was also known for writing verse on tin cans.
He was a prolific poet having written nearly 36,000 poems by 2005.
For most of the Soviet Era, his poetry was distributed as samizdata circulating underground with his poetry not being officially published until the end of the Communist era. His work was widely published in émigré publications and Slavic studies journals well before it was officially distribute.
In 1986, the K.G.B arrested Prigov and sent him to a psychiatric institution before he was freed after protests by poets such as Bella Akhmadulina.
Prigov also wrote the novels ''Live in Moscow'' and ''Only My Japan'', and was an artist with works at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art.[1] He had many strings to his bow writing plays and essays, creating drawings, video art and installations and even performing music.
Dmitri Prigov died from a heart attack in 2007, aged 66, in Moscow. He had been planning an event where he would sit on a wardrobe reading poetry while being carried up 22 flights of stairs at Moscow State University.
1. Russian Culture Navigator
★ The End(s) of Russian Poetry: An Interview with Dmitry Prigov by Philip Metres
★ Dimitry Alexandrovich Prigov, Soviet-Era Avant-Garde Poet and Artist, Rest in Peace an overview that includes some Prigov poems
★ Russia’s leading conceptualist poet has died poet Ron Silliman provides a useful momento to Prigov, with links to pieces on Prigov, including Silliman's own blog-essay from March 22, 2006
| Contents |
| Early life and career |
| Artistic career |
| References |
| External links |
Early life and career
Born in Moscow, Russian SFSR, Prigov started writing poetry as a teenager. He was trained as a sculptor, however, at the Stroganov Art Institute in Moscow and later worked as an architect as well as designing sculptures for municipal parks.
Artistic career
Prigov and his friend Lev Rubinstein were leaders of the conceptual art school started in the 1960s viewing performance as a form of art. He was also known for writing verse on tin cans.
He was a prolific poet having written nearly 36,000 poems by 2005.
For most of the Soviet Era, his poetry was distributed as samizdata circulating underground with his poetry not being officially published until the end of the Communist era. His work was widely published in émigré publications and Slavic studies journals well before it was officially distribute.
In 1986, the K.G.B arrested Prigov and sent him to a psychiatric institution before he was freed after protests by poets such as Bella Akhmadulina.
Prigov also wrote the novels ''Live in Moscow'' and ''Only My Japan'', and was an artist with works at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art.[1] He had many strings to his bow writing plays and essays, creating drawings, video art and installations and even performing music.
Dmitri Prigov died from a heart attack in 2007, aged 66, in Moscow. He had been planning an event where he would sit on a wardrobe reading poetry while being carried up 22 flights of stairs at Moscow State University.
References
1. Russian Culture Navigator
External links
★ The End(s) of Russian Poetry: An Interview with Dmitry Prigov by Philip Metres
★ Dimitry Alexandrovich Prigov, Soviet-Era Avant-Garde Poet and Artist, Rest in Peace an overview that includes some Prigov poems
★ Russia’s leading conceptualist poet has died poet Ron Silliman provides a useful momento to Prigov, with links to pieces on Prigov, including Silliman's own blog-essay from March 22, 2006
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