Artist Book | $35 ($30 direct from UDP)
Hardcover. 104 pp, 10 x 8 in.
31 color plates
ISBN 978-1-933254-61-6
Publication Date: February 15, 2013
Distribution: SPD; available in the UK through Antenne Books

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"What is the attitude of bourgeois society to homosexuals? Even if we take into account the differences existing on this score in the legislation of various countries, can we speak of a specifically bourgeois attitude to this question? Yes, we can. Independently of these laws, capitalism is against homosexuality by virtue of its entire class-based tendency. This tendency can be observed throughout the course of history, but it is manifested with especial force now, during the period of capitalism’s general crisis."

— from a 1934 letter to Stalin from Harry Whyte, a British communist living in Moscow

Moscow documents gay cruising sites in Soviet Moscow, from the early 1920s to the USSR's dissolution in the early 1990s. Photographed in 2008 in a simple but haunting documentary style, these sites of the bygone queer underground present a hidden and forgotten Moscow, with a particular focus on Revolutionary Communist sites appropriated by queer Muscovites. The book concludes with the first English-language publication of a 1934 letter to Joseph Stalin in which British communist Harry Whyte presents a Marxist defense of homosexuality in light of its re-criminalization in the USSR.

$150 : LIMITED EDITION PRINTS BY YEVGENIY FIKS
• Digital print (approx 5"x7") on 8"x10" archival paper
• Each image from Moscow is printed in a limited edition of 2 copies
• Each print signed and numbered by Yevgeniy Fiks
• Each print comes with a signed copy of Moscow
• Preview Photographs and Purchase Online Here

$3,000 : MOSCOW BOX SET
• A complete set of prints of all images in Moscow
• Signed and placed in a custom-made box
• A signed copy of the book is included

NEWS AND REVIEWS

10.10.13 | Ten Soviet Era Gay Cruising Sites from Yevgeniy Fiks’ Moscow featured on BuzzFeed

07.17.13 | Yevgeniy Fiks’ Moscow featured on The Calvert Journal

06.18.13 | Moscow by Yevgeniy Fiks featured on The Lit Pub

06.06.13 | Moscow by Yevgeniy Fiks is featured on the Russian news site Voice of America

05.06.13 | Bookforum talks to Yevgeniy Fiks

04.02.13 | Yevgeniy Fiks’ MOSCOW is reviewed in The Kenyon Review

03.26.13 | Yevgeniy Fiks’ MOSCOW is reviewed in Foreign Policy

03.20.13 | Yevgeniy Fiks’ MOSCOW is reviewed in Out There Magazine

03.14.13 | Yevgeniy Fiks interviewed about MOSCOW on Shifting Connections

05.2.12 | Moscow author Yevgeniy Fiks on modern art and Communism at ARTINFO

12.01.11 | Moscow by Yevgeniy Fiks is featured with excerpts in Triple Canopy

Yevgeniy Fiks was born in Moscow in 1972 and has been living and working in new York since 1994. Fiks’ work has been shown internationally, including solo exhibitions in New York at Winkleman Gallery and Common Room 2. His work has been included in the Biennale of Sydney (2008); Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art (2007); and Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art (2005, 2007, 2011). Fiks is the author of two previous books:  Lenin For Your Library? (ante projects, 2007) and Communist Guide to New York City (Common Books, 2008). Fiks’ work has been reviewed in The New York Times,  ARTFORUM, and other periodicals.