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* Barrett Watten, ''[http://www65.zippyshare.com/v/30481131/file.html The Constructivist Moment: From Material Text to Cultural Poetics]'', Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 2003.
 
* Barrett Watten, ''[http://www65.zippyshare.com/v/30481131/file.html The Constructivist Moment: From Material Text to Cultural Poetics]'', Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 2003.
 
* ''The Russian Avant-Garde (1910-1930): An Unfulfilled Plan: Symposium Proceedings'', European Cultural Centre of Delphi, 2004, 357 pp. [http://www.gbip.gr/book/173055/Collective_Work/The_Russian_Avant-Garde_(1910-1930):_An_Unfulfilled_Plan:_Symposium_Proceedings]
 
* ''The Russian Avant-Garde (1910-1930): An Unfulfilled Plan: Symposium Proceedings'', European Cultural Centre of Delphi, 2004, 357 pp. [http://www.gbip.gr/book/173055/Collective_Work/The_Russian_Avant-Garde_(1910-1930):_An_Unfulfilled_Plan:_Symposium_Proceedings]
* Maria Gough, ''The Artist as Producer: Russian Constructivism in Revolution'', University of California Press, 2005, 257 pp. [http://books.google.com/books?id=KCJHxeNQuGMC&printsec=frontcover]
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* Maria Gough, ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=11816 The Artist as Producer: Russian Constructivism in Revolution]'', University of California Press, 2005, 257 pp.  
 
* A.P. Kudryavtsev, N.O. Dushkina (eds.), ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=8202 From VKhUTEMAS to MARKhI, 1920-36]'', Moscow: A-Fond Publishers, 2005, 231 pp. (in English/Russian)
 
* A.P. Kudryavtsev, N.O. Dushkina (eds.), ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=8202 From VKhUTEMAS to MARKhI, 1920-36]'', Moscow: A-Fond Publishers, 2005, 231 pp. (in English/Russian)
 
* Christina Lodder, ''Constructive Strands in Russian Art'', London: Pindar Press, 2005, 596 pp.
 
* Christina Lodder, ''Constructive Strands in Russian Art'', London: Pindar Press, 2005, 596 pp.

Revision as of 23:49, 29 July 2014

Alexandra Exter in front of Nadezhda Udaltsova's paintings at the exhibition The Store, Moscow, March/April 1916.
Second Spring Exhibition of OBMOKhU, Moscow, May/June 1921.
El Lissitzky, Prounenraum [Proun Room], Great Berlin Art Exhibition, May 1923.
Arseny Avraamov, Symphony of Sirens, Moscow, November 1923. The steam 'Magistral' and the conductor on the roof are visible.

Avant-garde

Artists

Nikolai Kulbin (St. Petersburg), Alexei Kruchenykh, Vsevolod Meyerhold, Arseny Avraamov, Kazimir Malevich (Moscow/St. Petersburg), Wassily Kandinsky (Moscow/Weimar), Naum Gabo (Moscow/Berlin), Vladimir Tatlin (Moscow), El Lissitzky (Moscow/St. Petersburg/Vitebsk), Alexander Rodchenko (Moscow), Varvara Stepanova, Vesnin brothers, Mikhail Larionov, Natalia Goncharova, Alexandra Exter, Lyubov Popova, Olga Rozanova, Nadezhda Udaltsova, Velimir Khlebnikov, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Lilya Brik, Sergei Tretyakov, Mikhail Matyushin, Wladimir Baranoff-Rossine.

Groups

Hylaea (Moscow, *1910), Blue Rose (Moscow, 1906-08), Union of Youth (St. Petersburg, 1909-17), Knave of Diamonds (Moscow, 1910-17), Donkey's Tail (c1910-13), Ego-Futurists (St. Petersburg, *1911), Tsentrifuga futurist group (Moscow, 1913–17), Supremus (1915-16), Zhivskulptarkh (1919–20), OBMOKhU (at IZO, 1919–22), UNOVIS (at Vitebsk Art School, 1920–22), Projectionists, October.

Theorists and historians

Vladimir Markov (Voldemārs Matvejs), Nikolay Punin, Osip Brik, Pavel Florensky, Aleksei Gan.

Filmmakers

Dziga Vertov, Yelizaveta Svilova, Esfir Shub.

Institutes

IZO Narkompros (Moscow, *1918), INKhUK (at IZO, 1920–24), GINKhUK (St. Petersburg, 1923–27).

Schools

Vitebsk Popular Art Institute (1919–22), VGIK (*1919), VKhUTEMAS (1920–26), RAKhN (Moscow, 1921–30, from 1925 GAKhN), VKhUTEIN (1926–c30).

Exhibitions

0.10 (St. Petersburg, 1915), First State Exhibition (Moscow, 1918), Tenth State Exhibition: Non-Objective Creativity and Suprematism (Moscow, 1919), OBMOKhU exhibitions (Moscow, May 1920 and May 1921), First Russian Art Exhibition (Berlin, 1922). More.

Resources

Literature

Source writings (in Russian, selection)

Poshechina obshestvennomu vkusu, 1912. Download.
Artists' books
  • 140+ books of Russian Futurism, 1910-1930. [2]
  • Selected articles on music and technology.
  • Sadok sudey [Садок Судей], St. Petersburg: Zhuravl', April 1910, 131 pp.
  • Igor Severyanin, Prolog. Ego-futurizm [Пролог. Эго-футуризм], Summer 1911.
  • Igor Severyanin, Konstantin Olimpov, Skrizhali Akademii ego-poezii (Vselenskiy futurizm) [Скрижали Академии эго-поэзии (Вселенский футуризм)], January 1912.
  • David Burliuk, Nikolai Burliuk, Alexander Kruchenykh, Wassily Kandinsky, Benedikt Livshits, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Victor Khlebnikov, Poshechina obshestvennomu vkusu. V zashchitu svobodnogo iskusstva. Stikhi, proza, stat'i [Пощёчина общественному вкусу. В защиту свободного искусства: Стихи, проза, статьи], Moscow: Georgy L. Kuzmin, December 1912.
  • Alexei Kruchenykh, Pobeda nad solntsem [Победа над Cолнцем], Moscow, 1913.
    • "Victory Over the Sun", trans. Ewa Bartos and Victoria Nes Kirby, The Drama Review 15:4 (Fall 1971), pp 106-124. (in English)
  • Strelets [Стрелец], 3 Vols, St. Petersburg, 1915, 1916, 1922. Futurist almanac.
  • Sergei Sharshun, Dadaizm, Berlin: Evropa Gomeopat, 1922; repr. in Moscow: Salamandra, 2012, 115 pp.
  • Alexander Tufanov, K zaumi, St. Petersburg, 1924.
Nikolai Kulbin, "Slobodnaya muzika", 1910. Download.
Vladimir Markov, Faktura, 1914. Download.
Nikolay Punin, Pamyatnik III internatsionala. Proyekt khud. E. Tatlina, 1920. Download.
Pavel Florensky, Mnimosti v geometri, 1922. Download.
Theory
  • Nikolai Kulbin, Svobodnaya muzyka. Primeneniye novoy teorii khudozhestvennogo tvorchestva k muzyke [Свободная музыка. Применение новой теории художественного творчества к музыке], St. Petersburg, 1909, 7 pp. [3]
  • Nikolai Kulbin, "Svobodnoe iskusstvo, kak osnova zhizni. Garmoniya i dissonans (O zhizni, smerti i prochem)", in Studiia impressionistov, ed. Nikolai Kulbin, St. Petersburg: Butovskoi, 1910, pp 3-14. First delivered as a lecture to the Society of People's Universities in St. Petersburg in 1908, and on 12 February 1912 in a modified version under the title "The New Art as the Basis of Life" at a debate organised by the Knave of Diamonds. Part repr. in Manifesty i programmy russkikh futuristov, ed. V. Markov, Munich, 1967, pp 15-22. [6]
  • Vladimir Markov, Printsipy novogo iskusstva [Принципы нового искусства; Principles of the New Art], 1912.
  • Vladimir Markov, Printsipy tvorchestva v plasticheskikh iskusstvakh: Faktura [Принципы творчества в пластических искусствах: Фактура], St. Petersburg: Soiuz molodezhi (Union of Youth), January 1914, 70 pp. Drafted in Autumn 1912.
    • "Texture Material", trans. Maria Laakso, in Russian Avant-Garde 1910-1930: The G. Costakis Collection, Vol. 2, ed. Anna Kafetsi, Athens: National Gallery and Alexandros Soutzos Museum, 1995. (in English)
  • Alexander Bogdanov, Iskusstvo i rabochiy klass [Искусство и рабочий класс], Moscow: Prolet. kultura, 1918, 79 pp.
    • Die Kunst das Proletariat, Leipzig: Wolgast, 1918. (in German)
    • Armenian trans., Moscow, 1920.
    • La science, l'art et la classe ouvrière, trans. Blanche Grinbaum, eds. H. Deluy and D. Lecourt, Paris: Maspero, 1977, 292 pp. (in French). Review.
  • Nikolay Punin, Pervyi tsikl lektsii, chitannykh na kratkosrochnykh kursakh dlya uchiteley risovaniya: Sovremennoye iskusstvo [Первый цикл лекций, читанных на краткосрочных курсах для учителей рисования: Современное искусство], St. Petersburg, May 1920, 84 pp. [7] [8]. Given in Petrograd in summer 1919 at a crash course for student teachers of drawing. Cover designed by Malevich.
    • "Cycle of Lectures" [Extracts from the 5th and 6th lectures], in Russian Art of the Avant-Garde: Theory and Criticism, 1902-1934, ed. & trans. John E. Bowlt, New York: The Viking Press, 1976, pp 170-176. (in English)
    • "First Cycle of Lectures (Petrograd, 1920)", trans. Igor Serebryakov, in Russian Avant-Garde 1910-1930: The G. Costakis Collection, Vol. 2, ed. Anna Kafetsi, Athens: National Gallery and Alexandros Soutzos Museum, 1995. (in English)
  • Nikolay Punin, Pamyatnik III internatsionala. Proyekt khud. E. Tatlina [Памятник III интернационала. Проект худ. Е. Татлина], St. Petersburg [Петроград]: Otdel IZO Narkompros [Отд. изобразительных искусств Н.К.П; Department of Visual Arts of Narkompros], 1920, 7 pp. Text, [9], [10]
  • Pavel Florensky, Mnimosti v geometrii [Мнимости в геометрии], Moscow: Pomore [Поморье], 1922; repr. Munich: Otto Sagner, 1985, with an introductory essay by Michael Hagemeister; Moscow: Lazyr [Лазурь], 1991, 96 pp. "Poiasnenie k oblozhke" (pp 58-65) was reprinted in Florensky, U vodorazdelov mysli Т.1. Stati po inkusstvu, ed. N.A. Struve, Paris: YMCA Press, 1985, pp 369-379. [11]
    • "Spiegazione della copertina", in Florenskij, La prospettiva rovesciata e altri scritti, ed. Nicoletta Misler, Rome: Casa de Libro, 1983, pp 136-143. (in Italian)
    • "Explanation of the Cover", trans. Avril Pyman, Leonardo 22:2 (1989), pp 239-244. (in English)
    • "Explanation of the Cover", trans. Wendy Salmond, in Beyond Vision: Essays on the Perception of Art, ed. Nicoletta Misler, Reaktion Books, 2002, pp 183-196, n297-298. (in English)
  • Aleksei Gan, Konstruktivizm [Конструктивизм], Tver: Tverskoe izdatelstvo, October-December 1922.
    • "Constructivism" [Extracts], trans. John Bowlt, in The Tradition of Constructivism, ed. Stephen Bann, New York: The Viking Press, 1974, pp 32-42; repr. in Russian Art of the Avant-Garde: Theory and Criticism, 1902-1934, ed. & trans. John E. Bowlt, New York: Viking Press, 1976, pp 214-225; repr. in Art in Theory, 1900-1990: An Anthology of Changing Ideas, eds. Charles Harrison and Paul Wood, Blackwell, 1992, pp 318-320. (in English)
    • "Der Konstruktivismus", trans. Annelore Nitschke, in Am Nullpunkt. Positionen der russischen Avantgarde, eds. B. Groys and A. Hansen-Löve, Frankfurt a.M.: Suhrkamp, 2005, pp 277-365. (in German)
  • Nikolay Punin, Noveyshie techeniya v russkom iskusstve [Новейшие течения в русском искусстве], 1927-28.
  • Pavel Florensky, Istoriya i filosofiya iskusstva [История и философия искусства], Moscow: Mysl [Мысль], 2000.
Selected covers of the journal LEF. Download.
Journals

Readers, Anthologies

Stephen Bann (ed.), The Tradition of Constructivism, 1974. Download.
John E. Bowlt (ed.), Russian Art of the Avant-Garde: Theory and Criticism, 1902-1934, 1976. Download.

Catalogues

The Great Utopia: The Russian and Soviet Avant-Garde, 1915-1932, 1992. View online.
Exter, Goncharova, Popova, Rozanova, Stepanova, Udaltsova: Amazons of the Avant-Garde, 2000. Download.

Glossaries, Encyclopedias, Dictionaries

  • Jan van der Eng (ed.), Compendium of Russian Avant-Garde Terminology, Part 1, John Benjamins, 1983.
  • Alexander Flaker, Dubravka Ugrešić (eds.), Pojmovnik Ruske Avangarde, Vols. 1-9, Zagreb, 1984-1993. (in Serbo-Croatian) [29]
  • Tomáš Glanc, Jana Kleňhová, Lexikon ruských avantgard 20. století, Libri, 2005. (in Czech) Review.
  • K.E. Shtayn, D.I. Petrenko, Russkaya metapoetika. Uchebnyy slovar [Русская метапоэтика. Учебный словарь], Stavropol: Izdatelstvo Stavropolskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta, 2006, 601 pp. (in Russian)
  • V.I. Rakitin, A.D. Sarabyanov (eds.), Entsiklopediya russkogo avangarda [Энциклопедия русского авангарда], 2 Vols, Moscow, 2013. (in Russian) [30] [31]

Journals

  • Russian Literature, Special Issues on Russian Avant-Garde. (in Russian, multiple languages) [32]
  • Art Journal, Special Issue on "The Russian Avant-Garde", Vol. 41, No. 3 (Autumn 1981). [33]
  • Jan van der Eng, Willem Weststeijn (eds.), Avant Garde, Vols. 5-6, Special Issue on "USSR", Amsterdam and Atlanta/GA: Rodopi, 1991, 239 pp. [34]
  • Experiment: A Journal of Russian Culture, ed. John Bowlt, Institute of Modern Russian Culture, University of South California, and Leiden: Brill (from the Issue 17 onwards), 1995-. Published annually, focuses on the movements of the early 20th century. [35], [36], Review of Volumes 1-2.

Monographs, Edited books

Camilla Gray, The Russian Experiment in Art, 1863-1922, 1962. Download.
Vladimir Markov, Russian Futurism: A History, 1968. Download.
Andrey Smirnov, Sound in Z: Experiments in Sound and Electronic Music in Early 20th-century Russia, 2013. Download.
  • Konstantin Umansky, Neue Kunst in Russland, 1914-1919, Potsdam: G. Kiepenheuer, 1920. (in German)
  • Camilla Gray, The Russian Experiment in Art, 1863-1922, Thames & Hudson, 1962, 324 pp.
    • Die russische Avantgarde der modernen Kunst 1863-1922, Cologne, 1963. (in German)
  • Vladimir Markov, Russian Futurism: A History, University of California Press, 1968, 467 pp.
    • Storia del futurismo russo, Torino: Einaudi, 1973, 421 pp. (in Italian) [37]
  • Augusto de Campos, Haroldo de Campos, Boris Schnaiderman, Poesia russa moderna, São Paulo: Perspectiva, 1968. (in Portuguese)
  • Susan Compton, World Backwards: Russian Futurist Book 1912-1916, London: British Library, 1978, 136 pp.
  • Halina Stephan, “Lef” and the Left Front of the Arts, Munich: Otto Sagner, 1981, 242 pp.
  • J.H. Eagle, Russian Formalist Film Theory, Michigan Slavic Publications, 1981, 174 pp. [38]
  • Rainer Georg Grübel, Russischer Konstruktivismus: künstlerische Konzeptionen, literarische Theorie und kultureller Kontext, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1981, 263 pp. (in German) [39]
  • Christina Lodder, Russian Constructivism, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1983, 328 pp.
    • El Constructivsmo Russo, Madrid: Editorial Alianza S.A.C., 1988, 327 pp. (in Spanish)
  • Gerald Janacek, The Look of Russian Literature: Avant-Garde Experiments 1900-1930, Princeton University Press, 1984, 314 pp. Review, Review.
  • Marjorie Perloff, The Futurist Moment: Avant-Garde, Avant Guerre, and the Language of Rupture, University of California Press, 1985. [40], [41], Review, Review, Review.
  • Andrei Nakov, L'avant-garde russe, Paris: Fernand Hazan, 1986. (in French)
    • Avant-Garde Russe, trans. Jacques Gourgue and Shobha Raghuram, New York: Universe Books, 1986, 120 pp.
  • David Elliott, New Worlds: Russian Art and Society, 1900-1937, New York: Rizzoli, 1986, 160 pp; W.W. Norton, 1990. Review.
  • Richard Stites, Revolutionary Dreams: Utopian Vision and Experimental Life in the Russian Revolution, Oxford University Press, 1988, 344 pp.
  • E.F. Kovtun, Russkaya futuristicheskaya kniga [Русская футуристическая книга], Moscow: Kniga, 1989, 248 pp. (in Russian) [42] [43]
  • Lydya Zaletova, Revolutionary Costume: Soviet Clothing and Textiles of the 1920s, trans. Elizabeth Dafinone, New York: Rizzoli, 1989. Review.
  • Miuda Yablonskaya, Women Artists of Russia's New Age, 1900-1935, trans. Anthony Parton, New York: Rizzoli, 1990. Review.
  • Richard Andrews , Milena Kalinovska, Art Into Life: Russian Constructivism 1914-1932, New York: Rizzoli, 1990.
  • Lynn Mally, Culture of the Future: The Proletkult Movement in Revolutionary Russia, University of California Press, 1990.
  • William Craft Brumfield, The Origins of Modernism in Russian Architecture, University of California Press, 1991.
  • G. Harrison Roman and V. Hagelstein Marquardt (eds.), The Avant-Garde Frontier: Russia Meets the West 1910-1930, Gainesville, FL.: University Press of Florida, 1992.
  • Susan Compton, Russian Avant-Garde Books 1917-1934, The MIT Press, 1992, 175 pp.
  • Ronald E. Peterson, A History of Russian Symbolism, Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamin, 1993.
  • Christina Lodder, Russian Painting of the Avant-Garde 1906-1924, Edinburgh: Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, 1993, 95 pp.
  • James von Geldern, Bolshevik Festivals, 1917–1920, University of California Press, 1993.
  • Elena Sidorina (Елена Викторовна Сидорина), Skvoz ves dvadtsatyy vek. Khudozhestvenno-proyektnyye kontseptsii russkogo avangarda [Сквозь весь двадцатый век. Художественно-проектные концепции русского авангарда], Moscow, 1994. (in Russian)
  • Larry Sitsky, Music of the Repressed Russian Avant-garde, 1900-1929, Greenwood, 1994, 347 pp. [44]
  • Gerald Janecek, Zaum: The Transrational Poetry of Russian Futurism, San Diego State University Press, 1996, 428 pp.
  • John E. Bowlt, Olga Matich (eds.), Laboratory of Dreams: The Russian Avant-garde and Cultural Experiment, Stanford University Press, 1996, 359 pp. [45]
  • Selim Khan-Magomedov (Селим Хан-Магомедов), Arkhitektura sovetskogo avangarda, Kniga pervaya: Problemy formoobrazovaniya. Mastera i techeniya [Архитектура советского авангарда, Книга первая: Проблемы формообразования. Мастера и течения], Moscow: Stroyizdat, 1996, 709 pp. (in Russian)
  • Yevgeny Kovtun, Avant-Garde in Russia 1920-1930, Parkstone, 1997, 256 pp. [46]
  • Georgii Kovalenko (ed.), Avangard 1910kh - 1920kh godov, Vzaimodeistvie iskussty, Moscow: Gosudarstvennyi institut iskusstvoznaiya, 1998. (in Russian)
  • Hilary L. Fink, Bergson and Russian Modernism, 1900-1930, Northwestern University Press, 1998. [47]
  • Tomáš Glanc, Videnie russkich avangardov, Prague: Univerzita Karlova, 1999, 175 pp. (in Russian)
  • Tatyana Nikolskaya (Татьяна Никольская), Fantasticheskiy gorod. Russkaya kulturnaya zhizn' v Tbilisi (1917-1921) [Фантастический город. Русская культурная жизнь в Тбилиси (1917-1921)], Moscow: Pyataya strana, 2000. (in Russian)
  • Александра Шатских, Vitebsk. Zhizn' iskusstva 1917-1922 [Витебск. Жизнь искусства 1917-1922], Moscow: Языки русской культуры, 2001, 256 pp. (in Russian). Interview, Review.
    • Aleksandra Shatskikh, Vitebsk: The Life of Art, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007, 408 pp. [48], Contents.
  • Evgenii Petrova (ed.), The Russian Avant-Garde: Personality and School, St Petersburg: Palace Editions, 2003.
  • Barrett Watten, The Constructivist Moment: From Material Text to Cultural Poetics, Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 2003.
  • The Russian Avant-Garde (1910-1930): An Unfulfilled Plan: Symposium Proceedings, European Cultural Centre of Delphi, 2004, 357 pp. [49]
  • Maria Gough, The Artist as Producer: Russian Constructivism in Revolution, University of California Press, 2005, 257 pp.
  • A.P. Kudryavtsev, N.O. Dushkina (eds.), From VKhUTEMAS to MARKhI, 1920-36, Moscow: A-Fond Publishers, 2005, 231 pp. (in English/Russian)
  • Christina Lodder, Constructive Strands in Russian Art, London: Pindar Press, 2005, 596 pp.
  • Hans Günther, Sabine Hänsgen (eds.), Sovetskaya vlast' i media [Советская власть и медиа; Soviet Power and the Media], St. Petersburg: Akademicheskiy proekt, 2005, 621 pp. [50] (in Russian). Review.
  • Alan Bartram, Futurist Typography and the Liberated Text, Yale University Press, 2006, 160 pp. [51]
  • Andrew Spira, The Avant-Garde Icon: Russian Avant-Garde Art and the Icon Painting Tradition, Lund Humphries, 2008, 224 pp.
  • Aaron J. Cohen, Imagining the Unimaginable: World War, Modern Art, and the Politics of Public Culture in Russia, 1914-1917, University of Nebraska Press, 2008, 246 pp. [52]
  • Ilia Dorontchenkov (ed.), Russian and Soviet Views of Modern Western Art, 1890s to Mid-1930s, trans. Charles Rougle, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009.
  • Tim Harte, The Aesthetics and Ideology of Speed in Russian Avant-Garde Culture, 1910-1930, Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 2009, 330 pp. [53]
  • Wolfgang Mende, Musik und Kunst in der sowjetischen Revolutionskultur, Cologne/Weimar: Böhlau, 2009, 644 pp. (in German) [54]
  • S. Shargorodsky (ed.) Obvaly serdtsa: Avangard v Krymu, Moscow: Salamandra, 2011, 187 pp. (in Russian)
  • Gennadiy Aygi, Tvortsy budushchikh znakov [Творцы будущих знаков], Moscow: Salamandra, 2011, 157 pp. (in Russian)
  • Rosamund Bartlett, Sarah Dadswell (eds.), Victory over the Sun: The World’s First Futurist Opera, Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2012.
  • Julia Vaingurt, Wonderlands of the Avant-Garde: Technology and the Arts in Russia of the 1920s, Northwestern University Press, 2013, 322 pp. [55], Review.
  • Andrey Smirnov, Sound in Z: Experiments in Sound and Electronic Music in Early 20th-century Russia, London: Koenig Books & Sound and Music, 2013, 281 pp.
  • Eva Birkenstock, Kerstin Stakemier, Nina Köller (eds.), Anfang Gut, Alles Gut - Actualizations of the Futurist Opera Victory Over the Sun 1913, Kunsthaus Bregenz, 2013. Contributors: Roger Behrens, Devin Fore, Anke Hennig, Oliver Jelinski, Christiane Ketteler, Avigail Moss, Nikolai Punin, Marina Vishmidt. (in German/English)
  • Pamela Kachurin, Making Modernism Soviet: The Russian Avant-Garde in the Early Soviet Era, 1918-1928 , Northwestern University Press, 2013, 176 pp. Revised version of the author's 1998 thesis. [56]
  • Philip Cavendish, The Men With the Movie Camera: The Poetics of Visual Style in Soviet Avant-Garde Cinema of the 1920s, Berghahn, 2013, 362 pp. [57] [58]

Special journal issues

Book chapters, Papers, Articles (selection)

Theses

Bibliographies

Experimental film

Constructivist film
  • Aelita, Queen of Mars (1924), dir. Iakov Protozanov, based on the novel by Alexei Tolstoy (1923).
  • Interplanetary Revolution (1924), dir. N. Khodataev, Z. Komisarenko, and Y. Merkulov. Animated film.
1980s
Literature

Interactive environments and installations

Artists
Events
  • 1965 - Exhibition - Kinetic Art, Dvizheniye (Movement) group, House of Architect, Leningrad
  • 1967 - EXPO '67, Soviet Pavilion, Montreal, Canada
  • 1978 - Science and Art, House of Scientists, exhibition, Moscow
  • 1979 - Colour - Form - Space, Exhibition Hall on Malaja Gruzinskaja, exhibition, Moscow
  • 1987 - Retrospection of Moscow Unofficial Art (1957-1987), Exhibition Hall of the association "Ermitazh" in Belajevo, Moscow
  • 1988 - Geometry in Art, Exhibition Hall on Kashirskaja, Moscow
Works
  • Cybertheater, 1967, Lev Nusberg and the 'Movement' Group. A 20 m2 complex of kinetic "cyber-creatures", mostly 130 X 80 cm. Members of the Russian 'Movement' Group built in St. Petersburg (then, Leningrad) cyber-creatures, or "cybers", which had five to six degrees of freedom. In this theater of artificial creatures, the actors were capable of controlling the color and intensity of the lights, as well as sounds and smells. A color film was planned by the "Movement" Group. A much bigger and more complex programmed "Cybertheater" was also projected.
Articles
  • Leonardo, Vol. 27, No. 5, 1994. Prometheus: Art, Science and Technology in the Former Soviet Union: Special Issue. [62]

Computer art

Works
  • Kitty, 1968, computer animation. A group of russian physicists and mathematicians with N.Konstantinov in the head of it created mathematic model of the cat and its moving and realized this model in the program for the computer “BESM-4”. Computer printed hundreds of frames on the paper using alphabet symbols and then they were converted to the cinefilm. [63] [64] [65]

Video art

Equipment
  • First experiments with video 8 cameras date back to the late 80s, when western video art started to cross the borders of the Soviet Union, which at that period became less resistant not only to the formerly viciously denounced "degenerate, imperialistic" forms of art, but also to the technical devices necessary to produce first Russian works of video art. [66]
Artists
Video installations
  • 1990s: Isupov, Galeyev, Isaev, Fishkin
Events
Collections
Articles
  • Anatoly V. Prokhorov, "HALF A KINGDOM FOR A STRANGE HORSE !". [67]
  • "From Underground to Foreground: The Rise of Video Art in Russia". [68]
  • Lucie Buechting, "Carbon Club: On Russian Video Art", 2004. [69]
Resources

Electroacoustic and experimental music, sound art

Electro-acoustic music
Electronic music
Works
Events
  • 1996 - Concert program for Lev Theremin’s 100 anniversary.
  • 1997 - The Theremin Center. The Multimedia Concert Program at Russian Musical Academy, Moscow.
  • Generation Z exhibition in Budapest, 2011
Centres
Literature
  • "Recent Russian Texts on the Theremin", compiled by N. Nesturkh, B. Galeyev, S. Zorin, I. Vanechkina and S. Sintzova. Leonardo. [79]
  • "Theremin International Resource Directory. Documents, Publications, Written Materials, Films and Other Resources on the Theremin; Archives, Museums, Libraries Containing Theremin Materials; Musical Works and Film Scores Written for the Theremin." Compiled by Matthias Sauer. Leonardo. [80]

New media art, Media culture

Cities

Moscow, St Petersburg, Kazan, Yekaterinburg, Sebastopol, Perm

Resources
Literature
  • Collaborative research on internet in Russia, [86]
  • Katherine Liberovskaya, "Behind the Cyrillic Curtain : Notes on Internet Art and Culture in Russia", 2001, [87]
  • Lev Manovich, "Behind the Screen / Russian New Media", 1997. [88]
  • Andrea Hapke, Andrea Jana Korb, "Russische cyberfeministische Strategien", course plan, 2002. [89]
  • Andrea Hapke and Andrea Jana Korb, "'Russische' cyberfeministische Strategien zwischen Realität, Virtualität und Fiktion – Ein Dialog", German. [90]
  • Florian Schneider and James Allen. Runet - interview with olia lialina. 2000. [91]
  • Jürgen Bruchhaus, "Runet 2000 - Politik und russisches Internet", Master thesis, 2000, German. [92] [93]
  • Media Art in Russia. ISEA Newsletter #95, January-February 2004. [94], [95]

Bibliography

  • "Soviet Bibliography". Books on the theme "Art, Science and Technology" published in the Soviet Union from 1917-1991 (in Russian). Compiled by Bulat M. Galeyev. Leonardo. [96]
  • "Bibliography of Articles Published in Leonardo on Art, Science and Technology in the Former Soviet Union", Leonardo. [97]
  • "Russian Books on Art, Science and Technology (1992-2000)", compiled by Leonardo International Co-Editor Bulat M. Galeyev and Vladimir G. Chudnovsky. [98]