A Trickster in Drag
Vlad Mamyshev-Monroe’s Aesthetic of Camp
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21974367 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mark Lipovetsky (0000-0001-9402-6583, Columbia University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 87 |
| Publication date | 2022-09-13 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Arts (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2076-0752 • E-ISSN: 2076-0752 |
| Publisher | MDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT) |
| DOI | 10.3390/arts11050087 |
| OpenAlex | W4295813603 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 6 |
The article discusses an artistic method of the post-Soviet artist Vlad Mamyshev-Monroe (1969–2013) as the nexus of several traditions embedded in modernist legacy. His main genre is remastered (scratched) photographs depicting him impersonating various historical and fictional characters, from Marylyn Monroe (whom he considered his alter ego) to Hitler, Jesus Christ, and Putin. His art and artistically designed image creatively develop the tradition of modernist life-creation (zhiznetvorchestvo), which he enriches by camp, thus becoming a pioneer of this elusive sensibility in post-Soviet culture. Camp, in turn, facilitates Mamyshev-Monroe’s self-fashioning as the trickster whose transgressivity and ambivalence absorb his queerness and drag spectacles, and whose hyperperformativity manifests itself in his performative art. The article analyzes how Mamyshev-Monroe appropriates various cultural material in the trickster’s way by using camp for its critique and deconstruction. The case of Mamyshev-Monroe is especially important since it demonstrates the limits of the trickster’s transgression that resists its instrumentalization by the authoritarian state
Aesthetics · Ambivalence · Art · Art history · Carnivalesque · Dystopia · Id, ego and super-ego · Literature · Narrative · Psychoanalysis · Sensibility · Trickster · Trilogy · Eastern European Communism and Reforms · European Linguistics and Anthropology · Philosophy · Psychology · Soviet and Russian History
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |