Iskusstvo i Klassy (Art and the Classes) [Monograph]

Boris Arvatov / Leonid Nikitin cover design

Verlag: Gosudarstvennoe izdatelstvo, Moskva/Petrograd (State Publisher, Moscow/Petrograd), 1923

Beschreibung

Russian language. Octavo 16 x 24 cm. Weight 120 g. Wrappers, 87 [1] pp. Print run 7000 copies. The book is in Good condition without any visible defects, losses, remarks. Cover edges show some fraying and darkening, tears (about 3 cm length) on the bottom of front and back cover along the spine fold repaired with paper tape from the inner side, restored spine ends; Internally light damp stains on the title and last page, darkened edges of the pages. Book s cover design in red & black by artist Leonid Nikitin (1896-1942) is considered on of the best examples of Russian Constructivism. A classic of Russian avant-garde writing, collection of four theoretical articles written by Boris Arvatov between 1921 and 1923 focusing on the aims of Proletkult and the need to develop a proletarian point of view on contemporary art trends. Here Arvatov elucidates the difference between early avant-garde movements, including Futurism, and productivist Constructivism. He challenges the validity of easel art and proclaims the "productivist" view that artists should enter directly into industry to produce formally expedient and socially useful objects. In this case an aesthetic goal of art shifts to a factory noise and eliminates the opposition of art and life. The idea of Productive Art was developed by Arvatov also in his later works. Boris Arvatov (1896-1940) is best known as an art historian and critic, active theorist and ideologist of Proletkult, major proponent of Productive Art , and a prominent contributor to LEF (the journal of the Soviet Union s avant-garde movement Left Front of the Arts ). Throughout the 1920s, he published extensively on art history, Constructivism, production art, proletarian culture, gaining a reputation as an uncompromising hard-line productivist who subordinated artistic creativity to the needs of production. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 214

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Iskusstvo i Klassy (Art and the Classes) [...

Verlag: Gosudarstvennoe izdatelstvo, Moskva/Petrograd (State Publisher, Moscow/Petrograd)

Erscheinungsdatum: 1923

Einband: Soft cover

Zustand: Good

Auflage: 1st Edition