List of Figures Preface Introduction, by Matthew Jesse Jackson Culture, "I," "It," and Favorsky's Light ("Rhombus") (1980) Nozdrev and Pliushkin (1981) . Everything Is in the Turning of the Pages (1981) On Emptiness (1982) The Creator Looks at His Work Twice (1982) Dust, Dirt, and Garbage (Dust as an Object of Contemplation) (1982) Discourse on the Perception of the Three Layers, Three Levels, into Which an Ordinary, Anonymous Written Product--Notices, Slips, Menus, Bills, Tickets, etc.--May Be Broken Down (1982) Epistemological Thirst (1982) Not Everyone Will Be Taken into the Future (1983) New Rhombus (1983) Without Culture (1983) Park of Culture (1984) From The 1960s and the 1970s: Notes on Unofficial Life in Moscow (1982-1984) The Artist-Character (1985) From An Apologia for Personalism in the Art of the 1960s: An Impassioned Monologue on 23 June 1986 (1986) Conceptualism in Russia (1986) Edge, Border, Crack (1986) Art Has No Unloved Children (1987) How I Became a Character Myself (1989) A Story about a "Culturally Relocated" Individual (1994) From On "Total" Installation (1995) Text as the Foundation of Visual Expression (1995) On Risk (1997) On Cézannism (1997) The Spirit of Music (1997) Public Projects, or the Spirit of a Place (2001) Why Was It Necessary to Use the "Character" Device for the Exhibition Rather Than Signing My Own Name? (2004) Nikolai Petrovich (Commentary) (2008) From Catalog (2009) Translation Credits Bibliography Index.