The book is based on a course of lectures on the art of the second half of the 20th century. The biographies of artists, the history of movements and new technologies in art are studied from the point of two major objectives set by the art of avant-garde - to imagine the unimaginable Nothing and to become Everything. The main plot of the book is the rapid and dramatic succession of different approaches to those tasks. All the lectures previously published (chapters 1, 5-7, 11) were supplemented with new materials for the present edition. The book is intended for the readers interested in history, theory and philosophy of the modern culture.

ISBN 5-89059-049-9