SOVIET LIFE IN I. KABAKOV’S “COMMUNAL KITCHEN” AND V. SOROKIN’S “QUEUE”

The purpose of the study is to analyze the comparability of the leading tactics and strategies of a group of Moscow conceptualists in the field of painting and literature. The attention of researchers is directed to the consideration of the artistic moves of the leader and ideologist of the Moscow conceptual circle Ilya Kabakov in his installation “Communal Kitchen” and the ways of their reception in the literary work of Vladimir Sorokin, in particular in his first conceptual novel “Queue”. It is shown that the object of application of conceptualist strategies — pictorial in Kabakov and verbal in Sorokin — is the Soviet communal reality, the Soviet world and the Soviet man.