Victory over the Sun
"Victory over the Sun" — is a futuristic performance-Opera by the poet Alexey Kruchenykh, the composer Mikhail Matyushin and the artist...
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Andrew
Mar 28, 20206 min read
Images of technology in mass celebrations in the 1920s
"Mass celebrations. Collection of the Committee for the sociological study of the arts" - " Сolumns carried tables with slogans and...
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Vladimir
Mar 27, 20205 min read
Alexander Yaroslavsky. The Argonauts of the Universe
Alexander Yaroslavsky was one of the founders of the literary course of "biocosmism" and headed the Petrograd Group of Biocosmists. [1]...
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popovaulyanka
Mar 24, 202013 min read
Complex crafts from children 's books and magazines. Early 20th century.
Children's books and magazines offered readers a variety of complex crafts. Here are some of them. "Young Polytechnic". Album for working...
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Kate Palinchuk
Mar 20, 20204 min read
El' Lisitskiy. Worldbuilding Suprematism. World of technologies.
"The city construction came to complete confusion in its exposed elements: a house, a street, a square, bridges, and a new system that...
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popovaulyanka
Mar 20, 20203 min read
Homemade openwork tights
Soviet homemade openwork tights In the 70s and 80s, it was quite difficult to buy fashionable stockings/tights. So Soviet women learned...
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Vladimir
Mar 19, 20204 min read
Gordin Brothers, science and social engineering
Abba Gordin was a famous Jewish[1] philosopher and theorist of anarchism. In 1914-1919, together with his brother Wolf, he published...
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Andrew
Mar 17, 20206 min read
The magazine "Thing-Gegenstand-Objet" (1922)
«Thing/Gegenstand/Objet» is an international magazine on contemporary art (painting, architecture, cinema, literature, music, theater),...
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Andrew
Mar 16, 20203 min read
Dziga Vertov and technique
1922, Dziga Vertov, having gathered around him a group of "kinokov", published Manifest "We", in which he declared all the old game...
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Mar 14, 20204 min read
Сonstructivism in the furniture
Folding shelf for books Constructivist Bykov, 1923 On the left, the shelf is folded, on the right — unfolded. Wood and metal...
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Artem Moseev
Mar 13, 20208 min read
The structure of thinking according to Shchedrovitsky
G. P. Shchedrovitsky proceeded from the fundamental tenets of Thinking as a special substance existing in the sociocultural space and...
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Mar 12, 20205 min read
Children's toys as an investment in the future
Some children in their childhood had the opportunity to use Soviet toys to feel like an adult, try on the image of an architect,...
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popovaulyanka
Mar 11, 20203 min read
Robot Samodelkin
The robot Samodelkin is a character in the magazine "Funny pictures", popular among children who grew up in the 60-80th years of the last...
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Kate Palinchuk
Mar 11, 20208 min read
Сonstructivist innovations at the Meyerhold Theater
The director Vsevolod Meyerhold saw the theater task in full impact on the viewer, involving him in the play. Such a theater adopted the...
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popovaulyanka
Mar 10, 20203 min read
Scenery for the play "The Man Who Was Thursday"
For the play “The Man who was Thursday,” Alexander Vesnin created an installation “with elevators, moving sidewalks, a rotating and...
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Анастасия Ащеулова
Mar 10, 20204 min read
System research methodology
We actually objectify the principle itself and affirm that there is activity, in parentheses - thinking (this is a separate...
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popovaulyanka
Mar 9, 20205 min read
Robots in the USSR films
Kind and sweet, but often a little strange and too similar to people, robots, cyborgs and androids in the films of the USSR. "The death...
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popovaulyanka
Mar 8, 20204 min read
The appearance of the tram in St. Petersburg
Despite its status as the capital of the Russian Empire , St. Petersburg was only the 28th city to open a tram service. The modern...
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Анастасия Ащеулова
Mar 6, 20205 min read
Technologies for wallpapering in the USSR on Newspapers
At first, Newspapers were pasted under the Wallpaper in order to align the walls. Primers and putties, which are used now, were not sold...
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Анастасия Ащеулова
Mar 5, 20208 min read
Biochemically interindividuelles.
...What is individuality? What Gordin offers under this name is just a pathetic bourgeois identity that can only be defined through...
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