From the course «Russian avant-garde»: Alogism and abstraction.
How to combine the incompatible and what can it lead to painting, music and poetry? Below are a few key quotes from the lecture.
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kasmopolitf310
Mar 27, 20226 min read
«KOSMATAYA OBEZ'YANA» (Director Alexander Tairov, Chamber Theater, 1926)
The name of Alexander Tairov is a landmark for the entire theatrical world. The great director-reformer brought up an actor who can do...
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Егор Машинец
Mar 23, 20224 min read
Andrey Platonov "Beggar's thirst"
A. Platonov's story "The Beggar's Thirst", written in 1920, is included in the corpus of his early utopian texts. At the same time, the...
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vladimirk0315
Mar 19, 20224 min read
Operetta Ch. Lecocq's "Girofle-Girofla" (dir. Alexander Tairov, artist Yakulov)
In 1922 , the Moscow Chamber Theater showed the operetta Ch . Lecocq's "Girofle-Girofla" is about two Spanish twin girls who were...
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Вадим Мельников
Mar 18, 20226 min read
Palekh: from icons to Ilyich's light bulb
In miniatures of the Soviet period, electric light is usually associated with a special significance. The "earthy" origin of electric...
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sarazovgm
Mar 12, 202211 min read
Zamyatin's predictions in the novel "WE"
In this post I will tell you about those inventions and phenomena that Zamyatin predicted in his novel "We". I will also give the dates...
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vladimirk0315
Mar 10, 20223 min read
Sonya Delaunay in the Magazine "The Art of Dressing", 1928, No. 2.
In 1928, the magazine "The Art of Dressing" began to be published — a fashion magazine that appeared in the Soviet state as an appendix...
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Сахарова Полина
Dec 16, 202111 min read
Nikolai Fyodorov. The question of brotherhood or kinship...
Resurrection is not progress, but it requires real perfection, true perfection; whereas for what is born, for what happens by itself,...
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Сахарова Полина
Dec 15, 20217 min read
LIBERATED THING VS REIFIED CONSCIOUSNESS
I. M. Chubarov A LIBERATED THING VS A REIFIED CONSCIOUSNESS. INTERACTION OF THE CONCEPTS OF "ESTRANGEMENT" (VERFREMDUNG) AND "ALIENATION"...
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Гаврилова Екатерина
Dec 14, 20216 min read
Н. Berdyaev, "Man and Machine (The Problem of Sociology and Metaphysics of Technology)
Nikolai Alexandrovich Berdyaev is a Russian religious and political philosopher and sociologist, a representative of Russian...
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Сахарова Полина
Dec 14, 20215 min read
"The Capture of the Winter Palace" (1920)
"The Capture of the Winter Palace" (1920) artistic reconstruction of the events of October 1917 under the direction of Nikolai Evreinov...
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Гаврилова Екатерина
Dec 14, 20219 min read
I. M. Chubarov. Self-worth and other significance of Industrial Art in the Correspondence Aesthetic
The article examines the report of Pavel Sergeyevich Popov at the GAKHN in 1925 on Richard Haman's article "Art and Culture of Modernity"...
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Сахарова Полина
Dec 9, 20212 min read
Images of the cosmos in Soviet everyday life.
Space exploration in the 20th century delighted the citizens of the USSR, which is why images related to space were reflected in the...
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Сахарова Полина
Dec 9, 20217 min read
"The psychosis of theatricalization" 1910-1920
The revolution strongly influenced the structure of the theater, changes were needed and that time was lucky, it was full of ideological...
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Сахарова Полина
Dec 8, 20218 min read
"Marx on artistic restoration" Arvatov B. 2003
Karl Marx "Art, like other areas of life, is now at the stage of an undeniable revolutionary crisis, the content of which is the problem...
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polomonovasi
Dec 8, 202117 min read
Alexander Bogdanov SCIENCE AND THE WORKING CLASS (1918)
What is science? We are investigating this issue on a living example of astronomy. The ancestance savage knew more about the heavenly...
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polomonovasi
Dec 8, 202118 min read
MAUSOLEUM — PANTHEON OF SOVIT HEROES
Letter from the head of the museum "Our region" A.V. Fomina-Svetlyak of the Central Executive Committee of the USSR on the creation of...
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Сахарова Полина
Dec 7, 20212 min read
AVVAKUMOV'S PAPER PROJECTS
1. Flying Proletarian Flying Proletarian- homage to Vladimir Mayakovsky - a swing for open-air exercises. Devised for two teams of...
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София Воликова
Dec 3, 202116 min read
SERGIUS BULGAKOV’S CRITIQUE OF N. F. FYODOROV’S
Sergiy Bulgakov (1871-1944) was one of the most important Russian Orthodox theologians of the last century. His theological system...
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София Воликова
Dec 2, 202111 min read
THE “EROTIC” TRACTOR IN THE SOVIET CINEMA
In the period from the 1930s to the 1960s, the Soviet Union paid great attention to the technological development of the country. One of...
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