A-YA
A-YA (A-JA), Cyrillic:«a-Я» — журнал неофициального русского искусства (English: Magazine of unofficial Russian art), was an underground Russian art revue. A-YA was a magazine illegally prepared in the Soviet Union and then published in Paris from 1979 to 1986.
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| Editors-in-Chief | Alexander Sidorov, Igor Shelkovsky |
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| Categories | Art magazines |
| Frequency | Yearly |
| Circulation | 7,000/3,000 |
| Year founded | 1979 |
| Final issue | 1986 |
| Country | USSR France |
| Language | Russian English |
The editors were Alexander Sidorov (under the pseudonym «Alexej Alexejev») in Moscow and Igor Shelkovsky in Paris. A-YA was distributed in the U.S. by Alexander Kosolapov in New York. It consisted of 60 pages in A-4 format. There were 3000 edition copies (the first edition numbered 7000). A-YA was printed in both color and black-and-white.
An informal magazine, A-YA opened to the world the virtually unknown-to-the-public contemporary Soviet art and current Russian art, which for many years was to dominate the world's leading exhibition venues and auctions. It was from A-YA that people first heard the names Eric Bulatov, Ilya Kabakov, Dmitry Prigov and many others.
In 2004, the entire run was reprinted as one volume by ArtChronika with a new forward by Shelkovsky as "A-YA - Unofficial Russian Art Review: 1979-1986" (ISBN 9785902647010).
External links
- Margarita Masterkova (1982). "A-YA n°4 - 1982 PERFORMANCES IN MOSCOW". A-YA. Archived from the original on 2 December 2008.
- New York Times
- TIME Magazine
- Sotheby's Auctions Calendar