| Summary: | Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction: Across the East-West Divide: A Portrait of the Artist in Transcultural Perspective -- Chapter 1 The Moscow Prelude: Visual Culture of the Cold War Era or the "Second Russian Avant-Garde"? -- 1 A Familiar Stranger: The Russian Encounter with Modern Art in the 1950s -- 2 The Impact of the American National Exhibition in Moscow: From Abstraction to Multiple Idioms -- 3 The "Cognitive Theory" of the Russian Avant-Garde and Its Role in the Formation of Unofficial Modern Art -- 4 Situating Unofficial Art Politically: Leviathan as a Symbol of Protest -- Chapter 2 The Notion of Modern Jewish Art across Borders -- 1 Jewish Art and Modern Culture: A Complex Dialogue -- 2 Renunciation of Art as the "Hidden Tradition" of Jewish Modernism -- 3 The Conflict between Traditionalist and Modernist Jewish Art -- 4 The Revival of Art Theory in the USSR and Grobman's Debt to Malevich -- 5 The Genesis Myth and Suprematism in Grobman's Work of the 1960s -- Chapter 3 Jewish vs. Israeli: Cultural Politics and Identity Controversy in the Work of the Leviathan Group -- 1 Shifting Self-Definitions in Local Art Scenes of the Late 1960s and Early 1970s -- 2 Grobman's Jerusalem Diary: The Jewish Artist as "Other" in the Israeli Art World -- 3 Grobman and Conceptual Art: "Renunciation" vs. "Dematerialization of the Art Object" -- 4 "To Stand on the Rock of the Word 'We'": The Art of the Leviathan Group -- Chapter 4 Postmodern Variations: Too Jewish, Too Russian, Too Israeli -- 1 The Jewish Artist as Russian Poet and Israeli Serviceman, 1980s-1990s -- 2 Conclusion: Parallels, Conflicts, and Hybrids of the Patterns of Modernism in the Biography of a Single Artist -- Appendices: Selected Texts by Michail Grobman -- A Manifesto of Magical Symbolism -- B Selected Theoretical Notes.
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