This eagerly awaited first monograph focuses on Alexander Ponomarev one of Russia's most
eminent and singular contemporary artists.Alexander Ponomarev is one of Russia's most widely
known contemporary artists renowned both at home and abroad. In 2014 he was featured in Time
magazine as one of the 100 Leading Global Thinkers thanks to the vast range of devices he
employs to express his ideas such as drawings vast complex installations and a variety of
technologies. He also captures some of the planet's most extreme and least accessible
landscapes symbolizing what he views as a world that is culturally and morally adrift.The
themes he tackles are those he considers of critical relevance to today's world: the rapport
between science and art the exploration of the Arctic and Antarctic the retrieval of ancient
engineering traditions vs. today's advanced technologies and the crucial and urgent issue of
climate change.The volume includes two ample introductory essays describing his position in the
Russian context of art production over the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and his roots
in the artistic and humanist culture of the early modern era (Vitruvius Leonardo Titian and
the major geographical explorations etc.).
