Amazon.com description: Product Description: The exhibition "Lenin: Icebreaker" premiered in 2013 aboard the decommissioned Soviet nuclear-powered icebreaker Lenin. Expanded with works by US-American artists for the Austrian Cultural Forum New York, the exhibition revisits the cultural consequences of the failed utopias of the 20th century, including that of artistic modernity itself. The catalogue explores the essence of contemporary political art, which is a witness to the rise of ultraconservative nationalisms as well as global turmoil fueled by the current economic crisis. In order to fathom the possibilities for a better future, we need to steer the icebreaker Lenin through the icy archive of dreams waiting to be salvaged.