Dmitri Prigov

Dmitri Aleksandrovich Prigov (, 5 November 1940 – 16 July 2007 ) was a Russian writer and artist. Prigov was part of the unofficial Moscow Conceptualists during the era of the Soviet Union and was briefly sent to a psychiatric hospital in 1986.

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. He had many strings to his bow writing plays and essays, creating drawings, video art and installations and even performing music. Prigov referred to a "shimmering aesthetics" that (as explained by Epstein) "is defined not by the sincerity of the author or the quotedness of his style, but by the mutual interaction of the two." The New York Times Dimitrii Aleksandrovich Prigov Dimitrij Aleksandrovich Prikov, Russian Literature, a periodical Dmitry Aleksandrovich Prigov – Encyclopædia Britannica Dimitry Prigov – The St. Petersburg Times (English language, Russia) The Moscow Times

Selected filmography Khrustalyov, My Car! (1998) Taxi Blues (1990)