The Russian avant-garde was a large, influential wave of avant-garde modern art that flourished in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union, approximately from 1890 to 1930—although some have placed its beginning as early as 1850 and its end as late as 1960. The term covers many separate, but inextricably related, art movements that flourished at the time; including Suprematism, Constructivism, Russian Futurism, Cubo-Futurism, Zaum, Imaginism, and Neo-primitivism.[2][3][4][5] In Ukraine, many of the artists who were born, grew up or were active in what is now Belarus and Ukraine (including Kazimir Malevich, Aleksandra Ekster, Vladimir Tatlin, David Burliuk, Alexander Archipenko), are also classified in the Ukrainian avant-garde.[6]
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The Russian avant-garde reached its creative and popular height in the period between the Russian Revolution of 1917 and 1932, at which point the ideas of the avant-garde clashed with the newly emerged state-sponsored direction of Socialist Realism.[7]
Artists and designers
editNotable figures from this era include:
- Alexander Archipenko
- Vladimir Baranoff-Rossine
- Alexander Bogomazov
- David Burliuk
- Vladimir Burliuk
- Marc Chagall
- Ilya Chashnik
- Aleksandra Ekster
- Robert Falk
- Moisey Feigin
- Pavel Filonov
- Artur Fonvizin
- Naum Gabo
- Nina Genke-Meller
- Natalia Goncharova
- Elena Guro
- Vasily Kandinsky
- Lazar Khidekel
- Ivan Kliun
- Gustav Klutsis
- Pyotr Konchalovsky
- Eugène Konopatzky
- Sergei Arksentevich Kolyada
- Alexander Kuprin
- Mikhail Larionov
- Aristarkh Lentulov
- El Lissitzky
- Kazimir Malevich
- Paul Mansouroff
- Ilya Mashkov
- Mikhail Matyushin
- Vadim Meller
- Adolf Milman
- Solomon Nikritin
- Alexander Osmerkin
- Max Penson
- Liubov Popova
- Ivan Puni
- Kliment Red'ko
- Alexei Remizov
- Alexander Rodchenko
- Olga Rozanova
- Léopold Survage
- Varvara Stepanova
- Georgii and Vladimir Stenberg
- Vladimir Tatlin
- Nadezhda Udaltsova
- Vasiliy Yermilov
- Ilya Zdanevich
- Alexandr Zhdanov
Journals
editFilmmakers
editWriters
editTheatre directors
editArchitects
editPreserving Russian avant-garde architecture has become a real concern for historians, politicians and architects. In 2007, MoMA in New York City, devoted an exhibition to Soviet avant-garde architecture in the postrevolutionary period, featuring photographs by Richard Pare.[8]
Composers
editMany Russian composers that were interested in avant-garde music became members of the Association for Contemporary Music which was headed by Roslavets.
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Wassily Kandinsky, Untitled (study for Composition VII, Première abstraction), watercolor, 1913, MNAM, Centre Pompidou
- ^ Hatherley, Owen (2011-11-04). "The constructivists and the Russian revolution in art and achitecture". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2019-12-13.
- ^ "Cubo-Futurism | art movement". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 2019-12-13.
- ^ Douglas, Charlotte (1975). "The New Russian Art and Italian Futurism". Art Journal. 34 (3): 229–239. doi:10.2307/775994. ISSN 0004-3249. JSTOR 775994.
- ^ "A Revolutionary Impulse: The Rise of the Russian Avant-Garde". The Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 2019-12-13.
- ^ "Ukrainian Avant Garde". Ukrainian Art Library. 26 January 2017.
- ^ Groys, Boris (2019-12-31), "3. The Birth of Socialist Realism from the Spirit of the Russian Avant-Garde", The Russian Avant-Garde and Radical Modernism, Academic Studies Press, pp. 250–276, doi:10.1515/9781618111425-010, ISBN 978-1-61811-142-5, S2CID 240605358
- ^ "Lost Vanguard: Soviet Modernist Architecture, 1922–32". MoMA. 2007. Retrieved 1 August 2019.
Further reading
edit- Friedman, Julia. Beyond Symbolism and Surrealism: Alexei Remizov's Synthetic Art, Northwestern University Press, 2010. ISBN 0-8101-2617-6 (Trade Cloth)
- Nakov, Andrei. Avant Garde Russe. England: Art Data. 1986.
- Kovalenko, G.F. (ed.) The Russian Avant-Garde of 1910–1920 and Issues of Expressionism. Moscow: Nauka, 2003.
- Rowell, M. and Zander Rudenstine A. Art of the Avant-Garde in Russia: Selections from the George Costakis Collection. New York: The Soloman R. Guggenheim Museum, 1981.
- Shishanov V.A. Vitebsk Museum of Modern Art: a history of creation and a collection. 1918–1941. – Minsk: Medisont, 2007. – 144 p.[1]
- “Encyclopedia of Russian Avangard. Fine Art. Architecture Vol.1 A-K, Vol.2 L-Z Biography”; Rakitin V.I., Sarab’yanov A.D., Moscow, 2013
- Surviving Suprematism: Lazar Khidekel. Judah L. Magnes Museum, Berkeley CA, 2004
- Lazar Khidekel and Suprematism. Prestel, 2014 (Regina Khidekel, with contributions by Constantin Boym, Magdalena Dabrowski, Charlotte Douglas, Tatyana Goryacheva, Irina Karasik, Boris Kirikov and Margarita Shtiglits, and Alla Rosenfeld)
- Tedman, Gary. Soviet Avant Garde Aesthetics, chapter from Aesthetics & Alienation. pp 203–229. 2012. Zero Books. ISBN 978-1-78099-301-0
External links
edit- Why did Soviet Photographic Avant-garde decline?
- Website about russian avant-garde.
- The Russian Avant-garde Foundation
- Thessaloniki State Museum of Contemporary Art – Costakis Collection
- Yiddish Book Collection of the Russian Avant-Garde at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University
- International campaign to save the Shukhov Tower in Moscow
- Masters of Russian Avant-garde
- Masters of Russian Avant-garde from the collection of the M.T. Abraham Foundation
- Abstraction and Estrangement across the Arts in the Russian Avant-garde: Chapter 2 in The Poetics of the Avant-garde in Literature, Arts, and Philosophy, edited by Slav Gratchev, 2020, Rowman & Littlefield.