Boris Arvatov

Boris Arvatov (Борис Игнатьевич Арватов, 1896-1940) was a Soviet art, literary and film critic, and one of the founding members of LEF.

Iskusstvo i klassy, 1923.

Works

• "Stil i stilizatsiya kak sotsianlno-organizuyushie yavleniya" [Стиль и стилизация, как социально-организующие явления] [1921]. Paper presented at a plenary session of RAKhN on 17 Nov 1921.
  • "Style and Stylization as Social Organizers (Theses)", Experiment 3:1, 1997, pp 285-286. [1] (English)

• "Proletariat i levoe iskusstvo" [Пролетариат и левое искусство], Vestnik isskustv 1, Moscow, Jan 1922, pp 10-11. (Russian)
  • "The Proletariat and Leftist Art", in Russian Art of Avant-Garde, 1976, pp 225-230. (English)

• Iskusstvo i klassy [Искусство и классы; Art and Class], Moscow/Petrograd: Gosizdat, 1923, 87+[1] pp. 23.8 x 15.7 cm, edition of 7000. [2] [3] (Russian)
  • "Art and Class", trans. John Bowlt, in Tradition of Constructivism, 1974, pp 43-48. Trans. of excerpts. (English)

• "Kontr-revolyutsiya formy (o Valerii Bryusove)" [Контр-революция формы (о Валерии Брюсове)], Lef 1, Moscow/Petrograd: Gosizdat, Mar 1923, pp 215-230. (Russian)

• Б. А., "Oveshchestvlennaya utopiya" [Овеществленная утопия], Lef 1, Moscow/Petrograd: Gosizdat, Mar 1923, pp 61-64. (Russian)
  • "Materialised Utopia", trans. Richard Sherwood, Screen 12:4 (Winter 1971-72), pp 38-41; repr. as "Materialized Utopia", in Tradition of Constructivism, 1974, pp 85-89. (English)

• "Sintaksis Mayakovskogo. Opyt formal'no-sotsiologicheskogo analiza poemy Voyna i mir" [Синтаксис Маяковского. Опыт формально-социологического анализа поэмы «Война и мир»], Pechat' i revolyutsiya [Печать и революция] 1, 1923. (Russian)

• "Rechetvorchestvo" [Речетворчество], Lef 2, Moscow/Petrograd: Gosizdat, Apr-May 1923, pp 79-91. (Russian)

• "Utopiya ili nauka?" [Утопия или наука?], Lef 4, Moscow/Petrograd: Gosizdat, 1923, pp 16-21. (Russian)
  • "Utopia or Science? (extracts)", trans. Richard Sherwood, Screen 12:4 (Winter 1971-72), pp 46-48. (English)

• Natan Altman [Натан Альтман], Berlin: Petropolis, 1924, 61+[41] pp. [4] (Russian)

• "Byt i kul'tura veshchi" [Быть и культура вещи], in Al'manakh proletkulta [Альманах пролеткульта], Moscow, 1925, pp 75-82. (Russian)
  • "Everyday Life and the Culture of the Thing (Toward the Formulation of the Question)", trans. Christina Kiaer, October 81 (Summer 1997), pp 119-128. (English)

• "Teoriya izobrazitelnoy kompositsii" [Теория изобразительной композиции] [1925]. Paper presented at the Visual Arts Section of RAKhN on 9 Dec 1925.
  • "The Theory of Visual Composition (Theses)", Experiment 3:1, 1997, pp 286-287. [5] (English)

• Iskusstvo i proizvodstvo [Искусство и производство. Сборник статей], Moscow: Proletkult, 1926, 132 pp, PDF; repr., Moscow: V-A-C Press, 2018, 181 pp. Review: Komyagina (Doxa, 2019). (Russian)
  • Kunst und Produktion, eds. & trans. Hans Günther and Karla Hielscher, Munich: Hanser, 1972, 137+[7] pp. (German)
  • Arte y producción, trans. Jose Fernandez Sanchez, Madrid: Corazón, 1973, 121 pp. Chapter 4. Excerpt. (Spanish)
  • Arte, produzione e rivoluzione proletaria: le proposte dell'avanguardia sovietica degli anni 20 per un'estetica socialista e un'arte proletaria, eds. Hans Guenther and Karla Hielscher, Rimini: Guaraldi, 1973, 144 pp. (Italian)
  • Arte, produção e revolução proletária, trans. Inácia Fiorillo, Lisbon: Moraes, 1977, 120 pp. (Portuguese)
  • El arte en el sistema de la cultura proletaria, Cuenca: Universidad de Cuenca, Departamento de Difusión, Cine y Teatro, 1977, 41 pp. Trans. of excerpt. (Spanish)
  • Art and Production, eds. John Roberts and Alexei Penzin, intro. John Roberts, afterw. Alexei Penzin, trans. Shushan Avagyan, London: Pluto Press, 2017, 160 pp. (English)
  • Arte y producción, intro. María Zalambani, trans. Cristian Cámara Outes, Madrid: Asimétricas, 2018, 206 pp. [6] (Spanish)

• "K marksistskoy poetike" [К марксистской поэтике], in Na putyakh k iskusstvu [На путях к искусству], Moscow, 1926. (Russian)

• "O formal'no-sotsiologicheskom metode" [О формально-социологическом методе], Pechat' i revolyutsiya [Печать и революция] 3, 1927. (Russian)

• Sotsiologicheskaya poetika [Социологическая поэтика], Moscow: Federatsiya, 1928, 170 pp. [7] (Russian)

• "Sovremennyy khudozhestvennyy rynok i stankovaya kartina" [Современный художественный рынок и станковая картина], Novyy Lef 2, 1928, pp 7-11. (Russian)

• Ob agit- i proz- iskusstve [Об агит и проз искусстве], Moscow: Federatsiya, 1930, 223 pp. [8] (Russian)

• O Mayakovskom [О Маяковском], ed. Sergey Kim, Moscow: Common Place, 2020, 270 pp. (Russian)

Literature

• John Bowlt, "Boris Arvatov", Experiment 3:1, 1997, pp 283-284. [9] (English)
• "Boris Arvatov's Socialist Objects", October 81 (Summer 1997), pp 105-118. (English)
• Maria Zalambani, "Boris Arvatov, théoricien du productivisme", Cahiers du Monde Russe 40:3 (1999), pp 415-446. (French)
• Nicholas Thoburn, "Communist Objects and the Values of Printed Matter", Social Text 103 (2010), pp 1-30. (English)

Links

• Arvatov at Russian Wikipedia