Iconization of a Myth: the Birth and Appropriation of the Post-Soviet Gopnik Aesthetics

Student: Prez ramos Mara de los angeles

Supervisor: Ilya Inishev

Educational Programme: Visual Culture (Master)

Year of Graduation: 2020

The representation of the post-soviet gopnik has a very wide signification that goes beyond a simple image. Its materiality has enabled Russian people better to understand themselves in in the margins of postmodernity. The strong power deposited in the icon of the gopnik has helped deepen its morality depth, transforming the symbol into a very complex and valuable element to understand Russian culture. Beyond the commodification and has empowered the Slavic cultures with the possibility of Emancipation.

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