Russia
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), 5x5=25 (1921), First Russian Art Exhibition (Berlin, 1922). More.
Resources
- Miguel Molina Alarcón, Baku: Symphony of Sirens: Sound Experiments in The Russian Avant-Garde. Original Documents and Reconstructions of 72 Key Works of Music, Poetry and Agitprop from the Russian Avantgardes (1908-1942), London: ReR Megacorp, 2008. Book and 2-CD.
- Andrei Smirnov, Lubov Pchelkina, Generation_Z: Russian Pioneers of Sound Art and Musical Technology in 1910-1930, Moscow, 2009. [1]
- Russian Avantgarde Foundation
- Russian Avant-Garde, Tumblr page.
- RusArtNet: Avant-Garde
- Russian constructivist posters, 2.
- Russian Visual Arts: Art Criticism in Context, 1814-1909
- The Russian Utopia, a depository of almost 500 architectural projects from the last 300 years.
Literature
Source writings (in Russian, selection)
- 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.
- 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]
- expanded as "Slobodnaya muzika. Rezultaty primeneniya teorii khudozhestvennogo tvorchestva k muzyke" [Свободная музыка. Результаты применения теории художественного творчества к музыке], in Studiia impressionistov, ed. Nikolai Kulbin, St. Petersburg: Butovskoi, 1910, pp 15-26. [4] [5]
- "Die Freie Musik", in Der Blaue Reiter, eds. Kandinsky and Franz Marc, 1912; 2nd. Ed., 1914, pp 69-73. (in German)
- 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]
- "Free Art as the Basis of Life: Harmony and Dissonance (On Life, Death, etc.) [Extracts] 1908", in Russian Art of the Avant-Garde: Theory and Criticism, 1902-1934, ed. John E. Bowlt, Viking Press, 1976, pp 11-17, n300-301. (in English)
- 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. JPGs, DOC. [9]
- "The Monument to the Third International", trans. Christina Lodder, in Art in Theory, 1900-1990: An Anthology of Changing Ideas, eds. Charles Harrison and Paul Wood, 1992, pp 311-315. (in English)
- 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. [10]
- "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.
- Journals
- Mir iskusstva [Мир искусства; World of Art], St Petersburg, 1898-1904.
- Vesy [Весы. Научно-литературный и критико-библиографический ежемесячник; Libra], ed. Valery Bryusov, Moscow, 1904-09. Symbolist magazine.
- Zolotoe runo [Золотое руно; Golden Fleece], ed. N.P. Riabushinskii, Moscow, 1906-10. Symbolist monthly.
- Apollon [Аполлон; Apollo], Moscow, 1909-17.
- Ocharovannyi strannik [Очарованный странник; Enchanted Wanderer], 10 issues, 1913-16.
- Futuristy [Футуристы: Первый журнал русских футуристов], eds. Vasily Kamensky and David Burliuk, one double-issue, 1914.
- Veshch/Gegenstand/Objet: Mezhdunarodnoe obozrenie sovremennogo iskusstva / Internationale Rundschau der Kunst der Gegenwart / Revue internationale de l'art moderne, eds. El Lissitzky and Ilya Ehrenberg, 2 issues, Berlin, 1922.
- Kino-fot: Zhurnal kinematografii i fotografii [Кино-Фот. Журнал кинематографии и фотографии], ed. Aleksei Gan, Moscow, 6 issues, 1922-23.
- Gostinitsa dlya puteshestvuyuschih v prekrasnom [Гостиница для путешествующих в прекрасном; Guesthouse for travellers in the beautiful], 4 issues, 1922-24. Imaginist poetry magazine.
- LEF journal 1-7, Novyi LEF journal 1-24, 1923-25 and 1927-29.
- Russkoye iskusstvo, 1923.
- Sovremennaya architektura [Современная Архитектура; Modern Architecture], eds. Moisei Ginzburg and the Vesnin brothers, from 1928 Roman Khiger, 1926-30.
Readers, Anthologies
- Sovetskoe iskusstvo za 15 let. Materialy i dokumentatsiya [Советское искусство за 15 Лет. Матерялы и документация], eds. I. Matsa (И. Маца), L. Reyngardt (Л.Рейнгардт) and L. Rempel (Л.Ремпель), Moscow/Leningrad: Ogiz-Izogiz [Огиз-Изогиз], 1933, 664 pp. (Russian)
- Russian Formalist Criticism: Four Essays, eds., trans. & intro. Lee T. Lemon and Marion J. Reis, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1965, xvii+143 pp; 2nd ed., intro. Gary Saul Morson, U Nebraska Press, 2012, 162 pp. 4 texts. [11]. Review: Hughes (SEEJ 1968). (English)
- Manifesty i programmy russkich futuristov, ed. Vladimir Markov, Munich: Wilhelm Fink, 1967, 182 pp. Review. (Russian)
- Manifestes futuristes russes, ed. Léon Robel, Français Réunis, 1971, 132 pp. (French)
- Os futuristas russos, trans. Georgette Emilia, Lisbon, 1973, 119 pp. (Portuguese)
- Readings in Russian Poetics: Formalist and Structuralist Views, eds. Ladislav Matejka and Krystyna Pomorska, MIT Press, 1971, x+306 pp; Dalkey Archive Press, 2002. 17 texts. Review: Harkins (SEEJ 1972). (English)
- Screen 12(4): Documents from Lef, 1971-72, pp 25-160. (English)
- Constructivismo, trans. F. Fernández Buey, Madrid: Alberto Corazón, 1973, viii+374 pp. 29 texts by Soviet authors in 3+1 sections. (Spanish)
- Russian Formalism: A Collection of Articles and Texts in Translation, eds. Stephen Bann and John E. Bowlt, Edinburgh: Scottish Academy Press, 1973, 178 pp; New York: Barnes and Noble, 1974, 178 pp. 13 texts. Review: Wasiolek (CompLit 1975). (English)
- The Tradition of Constructivism, ed. Stephen Bann, Viking Press, 1974, 334 pp. 51 texts from 1920-65 in 7 sections. Review: Compton (SR 1975). (English)
- Russian Art of the Avant-Garde: Theory and Criticism, 1902-1934, ed. John E. Bowlt, New York: Viking Press, 1976. (English)
- Nikolai Khardzhiev, Kazimir Malevich, Mikhail Matiushin, K istorii russkogo avangarda / The Russian Avant-Garde, ed., intro. & notes Nikolai Khardzhiev, afterw. Roman Jakobson, Stockholm: Hylaea Prints, 1976, 189+40 pp. 4 texts. [12]. Review: Bowlt (SR 1978). (Russian)
- Zwischen Revolutionskunst und Sozialistischem Realismus. Dokumente und Kommentare. Kunstdebatten in der Sowjetunion von 1917–1934, eds. Hubertus Gaßner and Eckhart Gillen, Cologne: DuMont, 1979, 560 pp. 235 texts. TOC. (German)
- Le constructivisme russe. I. Les arts plastiques. II. Le constructivisme littéraire, 2 vols., ed. Gérard Conio, trans. Gérard Conio and Larissa Yakoupova, Lausanne: L'Age l'Homme, 1987, 482 & 228 pp. [13] [14] [15] [16]. Review: Sola (RES 1988). (French)
- Bolshevik Visions. First Phase of the Cultural Revolution in Soviet Russia, Part 1: The Culture of a New Society: Ethics, Gender, the Family, Law, and Problems of Tradition, ed. William G. Rosenberg, Ann Arbor: Ardis, 1984; 2nd ed., University of Michigan, 1990, 268 pp. (English)
- Art Into Life: Russian Constructivism, 1914-1932, ed. Richard Andrews, intro. Richard Andrews and Milena Kalinovska, New York: Rizzoli, 1990, 276 pp. 25 texts. TOC. (English)
- Russian Futurism through its Manifestoes, 1912-1928, eds. Anna Lawton and Herbert Eagle, Cornell University Press, 1988, 353 pp; 2nd ed., Words in Revolution: Russian Futurist Manifestoes 1912-1928, New Academia Publishing, 2005, 360 pp. [17] Introduction and Afterword [18] (English)
- The Film Factory: Russian and Soviet Cinema in Documents 1896-1939, eds. Richard Taylor and Ian Christie, Routledge, 1988; 1994; 2002; 2005. (English)
- Poeticheskiye techeniya v russkoy literature kontsa XIX - nachala XX veka. Khrestomatiya [Поэтические течения в русской литературе конца XIX - начала XX века. Хрестоматия], ed. A.G. Sokolov, Moscow: Vysshaya shkola, 1988, 368 pp. (Russian)
- Art in Theory 1900-1990: An Anthology of Changing Ideas, eds. Charles Harrison and Paul Wood, Blackwell, 1992; 1999, 1220 pp. (English)
- The Russian Futurists and Their Books, ed. Nina Gurianova, Paris: La Hune Libraire/Moscow: Avant-Garde, 1993. Facsimile reproduction of 6 artists' books originally published 1912-1914, containing poems by Kruchenykh and Khlebnikov and illustrations, with introductory text in English and French. [19] (English)
- Europa, Europa. Das Jahrhundert der Avantgarde in Mittel- und Osteuropa, Bd. 3, ed. Hubertus Gassner, Bonn, 1994. (German)
- "Documents", in Exter, Goncharova, Popova, Rozanova, Stepanova, Udaltsova: Amazons of the Avant-Garde, eds. John E. Bowlt and Matthew Drutt, New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 2000, pp 298-347. (English)
- Evraziyskoe uklonenie v muzyke 1920-1930-kh godov. Stati i materialy. Istoria voprosa ['Евразийское уклонение' в музыке 1920–1930-х годов], ed. Igor Vishnevetskiy (Игорь Вишневецкий), Moscow: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2005, 124 pp.[20] (Russian)
- Tri veka russkoy metapoetiki: Legitimatsiya diskursa, Tom 2: Konets XIX — nachalo XX vv. Realizm. Simvolizm. Akmeizm. Modernizm [Три века русской метапоэтики: Легитимация дискурса, том 2: Конец XIX — начало XX вв. Реализм. Символизм. Акмеизм. Модернизм], ed. K.E. Shtayn, Stavropol: Izdatelstvo Stavropolskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta, 2005, 884 pp. (Russian)
- Tri veka russkoy metapoetiki: Legitimatsiya diskursa, Tom 3: Pervaya polovina XX veka. Avangard: Kubofuturizm. Egofuturizm. Tsentrifuga. Luchizm. Imazhinizm. Proletkul't. Lef. VAPP. Konstruktivizm. OBERIU [Три века русской метапоэтики: Легитимация дискурса, том 3: Первая половина XX века. Авангард: Кубофутуризм. Эгофутуризм. Центрифуга. Лучизм. Имажинизм. Пролеткульт. Леф. ВАПП. Конструктивизм. ОБЭРИУ], ed. K.E. Shtayn, Stavropol: Izdatelstvo Stavropolskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta, 2006, 830 pp. (Russian)
- Ot estetiki k ideologii. Khudozhestvennye deklaratsii i literaturno-politicheskie dokumenty 1900-1920-kh gg.: Khrestomatiya dlya vuzov [От эстетики к идеологии. Художественные декларации и литературно-политические документы 1900-1920-х гг. Хрестоматия для вузов], ed. E.G. Serebryakova (Е.Г. Серебрякова), Voronezh, 2007, 79 pp, PDF, JPG. (Russian)
- The Russian Avant-Garde and Radical Modernism: An Introductory Reader, eds. Dennis G. Ioffe and Frederick H. White, Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2012. [21] (English)
- Alex Cigale, "Back to Futurism", in (ĕm): A Review of Text and Image 1 (2012), pp 100-159. Commented English translations of poems by D. Burliuk, Khlebnikov, Kruchenykh, Severyanin, Aseev, Gnedov, Pasternak, Mayakovsky, Kharms, Shershenevich, Selvinsky, Kirsanov, Voznesensky, Khvostenko and Segay. (English)
- Manifestele avantgardei rusei, ed. Leo Butnaru, Bucharest: Biblioteca Bucureştilor, 2012, 271 pp. (Romanian)
Catalogues
- Russian Avant-Garde: 1908-1922, eds. Leonard Hutton-Hutschnecker, John E. Bowlt and S. Frederick Starr, New York: Leonard Hutton Galleries, 1971. [22] (English)
- Women Artists of the Russian Avantgarde 1910-1930 / Künstlerinnen der Russischen Avantgarde, 1910-1930, Cologne: Galerie Gmurzynska, 1979, 314 pp. For an exhibition at the Galerie Gmurzynska, December 1979 - April 1980. [23] [24] (English)/(German)
- The Avant-Garde in Russia, 1910-1930: New Perspectives, eds. Stephanie Barron and Maurice Tuchman, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1980, 288 pp. [25] (English)
- The George Costakis Collection: Russian Avant-Garde Art, ed. Angelica Zander Rudenstine, New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1981, 527 pp. 632 col. and 569 b&w ills. Review. (English)
- Art of the Avant-Garde in Russia: Selections from the George Costakis Collection, eds. Margit Rowell and Angelica Zander Rudenstine, New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1981, 320 pp. 32 col. and 255 b&w ills. (English)
- Russian Stage Design: Scenic Innovation, 1900-1930: From the Collection of Mr. & Mrs. Nikita D. Lobanov-Rostovsky, ed. John E. Bowlt, Mississippi Museum of Art, 1982, viii+344 pp. (English)
- Dessins d'architecture de l'avant-garde russe, 1917-1935, ed. Irena Žantovská Murray, trans. Catherine Roberge and Yvan Rompré, Montréal: Centre canadien d'architecture, 1991, 27 pp. [26] (French)
- The Great Utopia: The Russian and Soviet Avant-Garde, 1915-1932, New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1992. Exh.review: Walsh (WSWS 1993). (English)
- Wood, Paul, "The Politics of the Avant-Garde", pp 1-24.
- Rakitin, Vasilii, "The Artisan and the Prophet", pp 25-37.
- Sharp, Jane A, "The Critical Reception of the 0.10 Exhibition. Malevich and Benua", pp 38-52.
- Shatskikh, Aleksandra, "Unovis. Epicenter of a New World", pp 53-64.
- Shatskikh, Aleksandra, "A Brief History of Obmokhu", pp 257-265.
- Lodder, Christina, "The Transition to Constructivism", pp 266-281.
- Adaskina, Natalia, "The Place of Vkhutemas in the Russian Avant-Garde", pp 282-293.
- Lavrentiev, Aleksandr, "What Is Linearism", pp 294-297.
- Gassner, Hubertus, "The Constructivists. Modernism on the Way to Modernization", pp 298-319.
- Kovtun, Evgenii, "The Third Path to Non-Objectivity", pp 320-328.
- Lebedeva, Irina, "The Poetry of Science. Projectionism and Electroorganism", pp 441-449.
- Douglas, Charlotte, "Terms of Transition. The First Discussional Exhibition and the Society of Easel Painters", pp 450-465.
- Barnett, Vivian Endicott, "The Russian Presence in the 1924 Venice Biennale", pp 466-473.
- Dzhafarova, Svetlana, "The Creation of the Museum of Painterly Culture", pp 474-481.
- Tupitsyn, Margarita, "Fragmentation versus Totality. The Politics of (De)framing", pp 482-496.
- Compton, Susan, "The Art of the Soviet Book, 1922-32", pp 609-621.
- Lobanov-Rostovsky, Nina, "Soviet Porcelain of the 1920s. Propaganda Tool", pp 622-633.
- Douglas, Charlotte, "Russian Fabric Design, 1928-32", pp 634-648.
- Rakitin, Elena, "How Meierkhold Never Worked with Tatlin, and What Happened as a Result", pp 649-664.
- Strigalev, Anatolii, "Nonarchitects in Architecture", pp 665-679.
- Cooke, Catherine, "Mediating Creativity and Politics. Sixty Years of Architectural Competitions in Russia", pp 680-715.
- Die Grosse Utopie: Die Russische Avantgarde 1915-1932, Frankfurt: Shirn Kunsthalle, 1992. (German)
- Die Grote Utopie: Russische Avantgarde 1915-1932, Amsterdam: Stedelijk Museum, 1992. (Dutch)
- Velikaya utopiya: Russkii i sovetskii avangard 1915-1932 [Великая утопия. Русский советский авангард 1915-1932], Moscow: Galart, and Bern: Bertelli, 1993, 831 pp. (Russian)
- Europa, Europa. Das Jahrhundert der Avantgarde in Mittel- und Osteuropa, eds. Ryszard Stanislawski and Christoph Brockhaus, Bonn, 1994. Four volumes. Contributions from c150 authors. [27] [28] (German)
- Volume I, 479 pp. incl. 247 col. pls. and 116 b&w ills. five introductory essays followed by 73 short texts on the work of specific artists.
- Volume II, 239 pp. incl. 251 b&w ills. 36 essays on aspects of architecture, literature, theatre, film and music.
- Volume III, compiled by Hubertus Gassner, 367 pp. 354 short texts of the period 1894-1994 by artists, critics etc., in German translation.
- Volume IV, 99 pp. Biographies; selected bibliography; list of exhibited works; index.
- Russian Avant-Garde 1910-1930: The G. Costakis Collection / Rōsikē prōtoporia 1910-1930, ē syllogē G. Kōstakē, 2 vols., ed. Anna Kafetsi (Anna Kaphetsē), Athens: National Gallery, and European Cultural Centre of Delphi: Alexandros Soutzos Museum, 1995. Vol.1, Catalog; Vol. 2, Theory and Criticism / Thōria-kritikē. With bibliographies in Greek, English, and Russian.[29] [30] (English)/(Greek)
- Exter, Goncharova, Popova, Rozanova, Stepanova, Udaltsova: Amazons of the Avant-Garde, eds. John E. Bowlt and Matthew Drutt, New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 2000, 366 pp. (English)
- Avant-Garde Masterpieces of the Costakis Collection, ed. Miltiadēs Papanikolaou, Thessaloniki: State Museum of Contemporary Art, 2001, 430 pp. TOC, [31]. (English)
- The Russian Avant-Garde Book 1910-1934, New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2002, 304 pp. (English)
- Deborah Wye, "Art Issues/Book Issues: An Overview", pp 10-23.
- Nina Gurianova, "A Game in Hell, hard work in heaven: Deconstructing the Canon in Russian Futurist Books", pp 24-32.
- Jared Ash, "Primitivism in Russian Futurist Book Design 1910–14", pp 33-40.
- Gerald Janecek, "Kruchenykh contra Gutenberg", pp 41-49.
- Margit Rowell, "Constructivist Book Design: Shaping the Proletarian Conscience", pp 50-59.
- Cosmos of the Russian Avant-garde. Art and Space Explorations in Russia, eds. John Bowlt, Nicoletta Misler and Maria Tsantsanoglou, Fondation Botin; State Museum of Contemporary Art, 2010. (English)/(Spanish), (English)/(Greek)
- Building the Revolution: Soviet Art and Architecture, 1915-1935, London: Royal Academy of Arts, 2011, 270 pp. TOC, Exh. guide. Exh. reviews: Mitchell (WSWS 2012), Jenkins (DI 2012). Published on the occasion of the exhibition curated by Mary Anne Stevens and Maria Tsantsanoglou and held at CaixaForum Barcelona, Feb-Apr 2011, CaixaForum Madrid, May-Sep 2011, Royal Academy of Arts, London, Oct 2011-Jan 2012. (English)
- La Caballería Roja. Creación y poder en la Rusia soviética de 1917 a 1945, ed. Rosa Ferré, Madrid: La Casa Encendida, 2011, 624 pp. For an exhibition held Oct 2011-Jan 2012. (Spanish)
- The Russian Avant-Garde. The Khardzhiev Collection at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, eds. Elena Basner, Geurt Imanse, Frank van Lamoen, Michael Meylac and Sergey Sigey, Amsterdam: Stedelijk Museum/Rotterdam: NAi010 Publishers, 2013, 544 pp. [32] (English)
- Utopia 1900-1940: Visions On A New World, Rotterdam: NAi010 Publishers, 2014, 184 pp. Published in conjunction with an exhibition at Museum De Lakenhal in Leiden. [35] (English)
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) [36]
- 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) [37] [38]
Journals
- Russian Literature, Special Issues on Russian Avant-Garde. [39] (Russian),(multiple languages)
- Art Journal 41(3): "The Russian Avant-Garde", ed. Gail Harrison Roman, College Art Association, Fall 1981. (English)
- Experiment: A Journal of Russian Culture, ed. John E. Bowlt, Institute of Modern Russian Culture, University of South California, and Leiden: Brill (from Issue 17 onwards), 1995-. Published annually, focuses on the movements of the early 20th century. Issues: 1: Russian avant-garde (1995); 2: Body Movement in Russia in the 1910s and 1920s (1996); 3: Russian Academy of Artistic Sciences (1997); 4: Apocalypse (1998); 5: Nikolai Khardzhiev Archive (1999); 6: Organica (2000); 7: Russian Art Nouveau (2001); 8: Vasilii Kandinsky (2002); 9: Vasilii Kandinsky (2003); 10: Performing Arts and the Avant-Garde (ed. Mark Konecny, 2004); 11: Pavel Filonov (2005); 12: Russian Cabaret (2006); 13: Diaries of Vera Sudeikina (2007); 14: 19th-century Russian Realism (2008); 15: Siberian Modernism (2009); 16: Vladimir Sterligov and Tat'iana Glebova (2010); 17: Ballets Russes (eds. Lynn Garafola and John E. Bowlt, 2011); 18: Russian Sculpture (eds. Musya Glants and Wendy Salmond, 2012); 19: Poison Pens: The Satirical Journals of the 1905 Revolution (eds. Marcus Levitt and Oleg Minin, 2013); 20: Kinetic Los Angeles: Russian Émigrés in the City of Self-Transformation (ed. Lorin Johnson, 2014). [40], [41], Review of Vols 1-2. (English)
Monographs, Edited books
- Konstantin Umansky, Neue Kunst in Russland, 1914-1919, Potsdam: G. Kiepenheuer, 1920. (German)
- Jay Leyda, Kino: A History of the Russian and Soviet Film, London: George Allen & Unwin, 1960. (English)
- Camilla Gray, The Russian Experiment in Art, 1863-1922, London: Thames & Hudson, 1962, 324 pp; US ed. as The Great Experiment: Russian Art, 1863-1922, New York: Abrams, 1962, 327 pp; UK repr., London: Thames & Hudson, 1971, 296 pp; rev. & enl., ed. Marian Burleigh-Motley, 1986, 324 pp. Reviews: Weidlé (SR 1963), Zavalishin (RR 1963), Juviler (SEEJ 1964). (English)
- Die russische Avantgarde der modernen Kunst 1863-1922, trans. Eva Rapsilber, Cologne: DuMont Schauberg, 1963, 315 pp; new ed. as Das Grosse Experiment. Die russische Kunst: 1863-1922, Cologne: DuMont, 1974, 276 pp. (German)
- Pionieri dell'arte in Russia: 1863-1922, trans. Alda de Caprariis, Milan: Casa Il Saggiatore, 1964, 324 pp. (Italian)
- L'avant-garde russe dans l'art moderne: 1863-1922, trans. Basile Dominov, Lausanne: La Cité des Arts, 1968, 326 pp; Paris: Thames & Hudson, 2002, 324 pp. (French)
- Kamila Grej, Ruski umetnički eksperiment: 1863-1922, trans. Branko Vučićević, Belgrade: Jugoslavija, 1978, 291 pp. (Serbo-Croatian)
- Ē rōsikē prōtoporia: proepanastatikē kai epanastatikē technē stē Rōsia, 1863-1922, trans. Pepē Rēgopoulou, Athens: Ypodomē, 1987, 317 pp. (Greek)
- E guo de yi shu shi yan [俄国的艺术实验], Tai bei: Yuan liu chu ban shi ye, 1995, 378 pp. (Chinese)
- O grande experimento. Arte russa 1863-1922, trans. Luiz Pitanga do Amparo, São Paulo: Worldwhitewall, 2004, 318 pp. (Brazilian Portuguese)
- Vladimir Markov, Russian Futurism: A History, University of California Press, 1968, 467 pp. (English)
- Storia del futurismo russo, Torino: Einaudi, 1973, 421 pp. (Italian) [42]
- Augusto de Campos, Haroldo de Campos, Boris Schnaiderman, Poesia russa moderna, São Paulo: Perspectiva, 1968. (Portuguese)
- Vahan D. Barooshian, Russian Cubo-Futurism, 1910-1930: A Study in Avant-Gardism, The Hague: Mouton, 1974, 176 pp. Review: Milner-Gulland (SEER 1976). (English)
- John E. Bowlt, Russian Art, 1875-1975: A Collection of Essays, New York: MSS Information Corp, 1976, 213 pp. [43] (English)
- Susan Compton, World Backwards: Russian Futurist Book 1912-1916, London: British Library, 1978, 136 pp. (English)
- Larissa Shadowa, Suche und Experiment. Aus der Geschichte der Russischen und Sowjetischen Kunst zwischen 1910 und 1930, Dresden: VEB Verlag der Kunst, 1978, 371 pp. (German)
- Halina Stephan, “Lef” and the Left Front of the Arts, Munich: Otto Sagner, 1981, 242 pp. (English)
- J.H. Eagle, Russian Formalist Film Theory, Michigan Slavic Publications, 1981, 174 pp. [44] (English)
- A. Oge Khansen-Leve (А. Оге Ханзен-Леве), Russkiy formalizm [Русский формализм], Moscow: Yazyki slavyanskoy kultury, 2001. (Russian)
- Rainer Georg Grübel, Russischer Konstruktivismus. Künstlerische Konzeptionen, literarische Theorie und kultureller Kontext, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1981, 263 pp. Excerpt, [45]. (German)
- Christina Lodder, Russian Constructivism, Yale University Press, 1983, viii+328 pp. Reviews: Willett (LRB 1984), Mudrak (AB 1987). (English)
- El constructivismo ruso, trans. María Cóndor Orduña, Madrid: Alianza, 1988, viii+327 pp. (Spanish)
- S.O. Khan-Magomedov, Pioniere der Sowjetischen Architektur. Der Weg zur neuen sowjetischen Architektur in den zwanziger und zu Beginn der dreissiger Jahre, trans. Brigitte Heinrich, Dresden: Verlag der Kunst, 1983, 617 pp. Trans. from manuscript. (German)
- Pioneers of Soviet Architecture: The Search for New Solutions in the 1920's and 1930's, trans. Alexander Lieven, ed. Catherine Cooke, London: Thames and Hudson, 1987; New York: Rizzoli, 1987, 618 pp. (English)
- Gerald Janecek, The Look of Russian Literature: Avant-Garde Experiments 1900-1930, Princeton University Press, 1984, xviii+314 pp. Reviews: Lawton (SEEJ 1986), Ilnytzkyj (HUS 1987). (English)
- Claude Leclanche-Boulé, Typographies et photomontages constructivistes en URSS, Paris: Papyrus, 1984, 173 pp; new ed. as Le constructivisme russe: typographies & photomontages, Paris: Flammarion, 1991, 173 pp. (French)
- Tipografías y fotomontajes: constructivismo en la URSS, trans. Rosa Vercher González, intro. Juan Manuel Bonet, Valencia: Campgràfic, 2003, 273 pp. (Spanish)
- Marjorie Perloff, The Futurist Moment: Avant-Garde, Avant Guerre, and the Language of Rupture, University of California Press, 1985. [46], [47]. Reviews: Lazer (SAR 1988), Bohn (CompLit 1989), Rabate (Jacket2 2012). (English)
- David Elliott, New Worlds: Russian Art and Society, 1900-1937, New York: Rizzoli, 1986. Review: Margolin (SEEJ 1987). (English)
- Andrei Nakov, L'avant-garde russe, Paris: Fernand Hazan, 1986. (French)
- Avant-Garde Russe, trans. Jacques Gourgue and Shobha Raghuram, New York: Universe Books, 1986, 120 pp. (English)
- David Elliott, New Worlds: Russian Art and Society, 1900-1937, New York: Rizzoli, 1986, 160 pp; W.W. Norton, 1990. Review. (English)
- Richard Stites, Revolutionary Dreams: Utopian Vision and Experimental Life in the Russian Revolution, Oxford University Press, 1988, 344 pp. (English)
- Serge Fauchereau (ed.), Moscou, 1900-1930: vie quotidienne, arts plastiques, littérature, théâtre, architecture, musique, cinéma, Fribourg: Seuill, 1988, 278 pp. (French)
- Moscow, 1900-1930, New York: Rizzoli, 1988, 275 pp. (English)
- Mosca: 1900-1930, Milan: Rizzoli, 1991, 279 pp. (Italian)
- E.F. Kovtun, Russkaya futuristicheskaya kniga [Русская футуристическая книга], Moscow: Kniga, 1989, 248 pp. [48] [49] (Russian)
- Lydya Zaletova, Revolutionary Costume: Soviet Clothing and Textiles of the 1920s, trans. Elizabeth Dafinone, New York: Rizzoli, 1989. Review. (English)
- Patricia Railing, From Science to Systems of Art: on Russian Abstract Art and Language 1910/1920, and Other Essays, Artists Bookworks, 1989, 154 pp. [50]. Review: Stupples (NZSJ 1991). (English)
- Miuda Yablonskaya, Women Artists of Russia's New Age, 1900-1935, ed., trans. & intro. Anthony Parton, New York: Rizzoli, 1990, 248 pp. Review: Hilton (WAJ 1992). (English)
- Art Into Life: Russian Constructivism, 1914-1932, eds. & intro. Richard Andrews and Milena Kalinovska, New York: Rizzoli, 1990, 276 pp. TOC. On the occasion of a travelling exhibition. Essays by Strigalev, Khan-Magomedov, Lodder, Senkevitch Jr., Bann, Andel, Foster, and 25 texts from the 1920s in translation. (English)
- Lynn Mally, Culture of the Future: The Proletkult Movement in Revolutionary Russia, University of California Press, 1990. (English)
- William Craft Brumfield, The Origins of Modernism in Russian Architecture, University of California Press, 1991. (English)
- Jan van der Eng, Willem Weststeijn (eds.), Avant Garde 5-6: USSR, Amsterdam and Atlanta/GA: Rodopi, 1991, 239 pp. [51] (English)
- 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. (English)
- Susan Compton, Russian Avant-Garde Books 1917-1934, The MIT Press, 1992, 175 pp. (English)
- Andrei Sarabianov, Nina Gurianova, Neizvestniy russkiy avangard v muzeyakh i chastnykh sobraniyakh [Неизвестный русский авангард в музеях и частных собраниях], Sovetskiy khudozhnik, 1992, 347 pp. TOC. (Russian)
- Ronald E. Peterson, A History of Russian Symbolism, Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamin, 1993. (English)
- Christina Lodder, Russian Painting of the Avant-Garde 1906-1924, Edinburgh: Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, 1993, 95 pp. (English)
- James von Geldern, Bolshevik Festivals, 1917–1920, University of California Press, 1993. (English)
- Peter Deane Roberts, Modernism in Russian Piano Music: Skriabin, Prokofiev, and their Russian Contemporaries Music of the Repressed Russian Avant-Garde, 2 vols., Indiana University Press, 1993, xiv+175 pp & viii+236 pp. Review: Stowell (Notes 1994). (English)
- 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. (Russian)
- S.O. Khan-Magomedov (С.О. Хан-Магомедов), INKhUK i ranniy konstruktivizm [ИНХУК и ранний конструктивизм], Moscow: Architectura, 1994, 244 pp. (Russian)
- Avril Pyman, A History of Russian Symbolism, Cambridge University Press, 1994, xviii+481 pp. Review: Davidson (SEER 1996). (English)
- Irina Paperno, Joan Grossman (eds.), Creating Life: The Aesthetic Utopia of Russian Modernism, Stanford University Press, 1994, x+288 pp. Reviews: Goodliffe (PL 1995), Davidson (SEER 1996). Seven essays exploring zhiznetvorchestvo. (English)
- Larry Sitsky, Music of the Repressed Russian Avant-garde, 1900-1929, Greenwood, 1994, 347 pp. [52] (English)
- Catherine Cooke, Russian Avant-Garde: Theories of Art, Architecture and the City, London: Academy Editions, 1995, 208 pp. (English)
- E.V. Sidorina (Е.В. Сидорина), Russkiy konstruktivizm: idei, istoki, praktika [Русский конструктивизм: Идеи, истоки, практика], Moscow, 1995, 240 pp. (Russian)
- G.V. Titova (Г.В. Титова), Tvorcheskiy teatr i teatralnyy konstruktivizm [Творческий театр и театральный конструктивизм], St Petersburg, 1995, 255 pp. (Russian)
- Gerald Janecek, Zaum: The Transrational Poetry of Russian Futurism, San Diego State University Press, 1996, 427 pp. Review: Comins-Richmond (SEEJ 1997). (English)
- Oksana Bulgakowa, FEKS: Die Fabrik des Exzentrischen Schauspielers, Potemkin Press, 1996, 304 pp. (German) [53]
- John E. Bowlt, Olga Matich (eds.), Laboratory of Dreams: The Russian Avant-garde and Cultural Experiment, Stanford University Press, 1996, 359 pp. [54]. Review: Milner-Gulland (SEER 1998). (English)
- Alma Law, Mel Gordon, Meyerhold, Eisenstein, and Biomechanics: Revolutionary Acting in Soviet Russia, Jefferson, NC: McFarland Press, 1996, 282 pp. (English) Review: Kiebuzinska (1996).
- S.O. Khan-Magomedov (С.О. 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, DJVU. (Russian)
- Yevgeny Kovtun, Avant-Garde in Russia 1920-1930, Parkstone, 1997, 256 pp. [55] (English)
- Georgii Kovalenko (ed.), Avangard 1910kh - 1920kh godov, Vzaimodeistvie iskussty, Moscow: Gosudarstvennyi institut iskusstvoznaiya, 1998. (Russian)
- Victor Margolin, The Struggle for Utopia: Rodchenko, Lissitzky, Moholy-Nagy, 1917-1946, University of Chicago Press, 1998, 276 pp. [56] (English)
- Ütopya mücadelesi: Rodchenko, Lissitzky, Moholy-Nagy, 1917-1946, trans. M. Emir Uslu, Istanbul: Espas Sanat Kuram Yayınları, 2012, 286 pp. (Turkish)
- Maria Zalambani, L'arte nella produzione: avanguardia e rivoluzione nella Russia sovietica degli anni '20, Ravenna: Longo, 1998, 258 pp. (Italian)
- Mariya Zalambani (Мария Заламбани), Iskusstvo v proizvodstve: avangard i revolyutsiya v Sovetskoy Rossii 20-kh godov [Искусство в производстве: Авангард и революция в Советской России 20-х годов], trans. N.B. Kardanov (Н.Б.Карданов), Moscow: IMLI RAN, 2003, 240 pp. (Russian)
- Slobodan Mijušković, Od samodovoljnosti do smrti slikarstva, Belgrade: Geopoetika, 1998. (Serbian)
- Hilary L. Fink, Bergson and Russian Modernism, 1900-1930, Northwestern University Press, 1998, 169 pp. [57] [58]. Reviews: Pirog (SR 2000), Masing-Delic (SR 2000), Bristol (RR 2000). (English)
- Tomáš Glanc, Videnie russkich avangardov, Prague: Univerzita Karlova, 1999, 175 pp. (Russian)
- Irina Gutkin, The Cultural Origins of the Socialist Realist Aesthetic, 1890-1934, Northwestern University Press, 1999. [59] (English)
- 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. (Russian)
- Aleksandra Shatskikh (Александра Шатских), Vitebsk. Zhizn' iskusstva 1917-1922 [Витебск. Жизнь искусства 1917-1922], Moscow: Yazyki russkoy kultury, 2001, 256 pp. Interview. Review: Zeltser (NK 2002). (Russian)
- Irene E. Kolchinsky, The Revival of the Russian Literary Avant-Garde: The Thaw Generation and Beyond, Munich: Fink, 2001, 207 pp. (English)
- Ada Raev, Russische Künstlerinnen der Moderne, 1870-1930. Historische Studien, Kunstkonzepte, Weiblichkeitsentwürfe, Munich: Fink, 2002. (German)
- Russkiy avangard. Lichnost i shkola [Русский авангард. Личность и школа], ed. Irina Karasik (Ирина Карасик), St Petersburg: Palace Editions, 2003, 191 pp. Proceedings from the conferences accompanying the exhibitons Kazimir Malevich in the Russian Museum and Malevich's Circle, 2000. [61] (Russian)
- The Russian Avant-Garde: Personality and School, St Petersburg: Palace Editions, 2003, 191 pp. (English)
- S.O. Khan-Magomedov (С.О. Хан-Магомедов), Konstruktivizm - kontseptsiya formoobrazovaniya [Конструктивизм — концепция формообразования], Moscow: Stroyizdat [Стройиздат], 2003, 576 pp. (Russian)
- Rolf Hellebust, Flesh to Metal: Soviet Literature and the Alchemy of Revolution, Cornell University Press, 2003, x+221 pp. [62]. Reviews: Anemone (SEEJ 2004), Günther (SR 2004), Andrews (Isis 2004), Shepherd (AHR 2004), Brintlinger (CSP 2005), Jenks (TechCult 2005), Naiman (CJH 2005), Kaganovsky (RR 2008). (English)
- Barrett Watten, The Constructivist Moment: From Material Text to Cultural Poetics, Wesleyan University Press, 2003. Review: PW (2003). (English)
- Maria Zalambani, La morte del romanzo: dall'avanguardia al realismo socialista, Rome: Carocci, 2003, 223 pp. (Italian)
- Mariya Zalambani (Мария Заламбани), Literatura fakta. Ot avangarda k sotsrealizmu, trans. N.V. Kolesov, St. Petersburg: Akademicheskiy proekt, 2006, 224 pp. (Russian)
- Jurij Murašov, Georg Witte (eds.), Die Musen der Macht. Medien in der sowjetischen Kultur der 20er und 30er Jahre, Munich: Fink, 2003, 308 pp. Reviews: Stadelmann (H-Soz-u-Kult 2004), Plamper (JGO 2005 EN). (German)
- The Russian Avant-Garde (1910-1930): An Unfulfilled Plan: Symposium Proceedings, European Cultural Centre of Delphi, 2004, 357 pp. [63] (English)
- Amy Nelson, Music for the Revolution: Musicians and Power in Early Soviet Russia, Pennsylvania State University, 2004. [64] (English)
- Maria Gough, The Artist as Producer: Russian Constructivism in Revolution, University of California Press, 2005, xi+257 pp. Reviews: Wood (AJ 2006), Douglas (MM 2006), Valkenier (RR 2006), Railing (SR 2007), Greenfield (SEEJ 2007), Barris (SECACr 2007). (English)
- Christina Kiaer, Imagine No Possessions: The Socialist Objects of Russian Constructivism, MIT Press, 2005, xvii+326 pp. TOC, [65]. Reviews: Wood (AJ 2006), Doy (AB 2006), Aulich (SR 2007), Reid (JDH 2007), Bader (AH 2008), Apkarian (RR 2008), Nieslony (Sehepunkte 2008), Nguyen (RJC 2014). (English)
- Christina Lodder, Constructive Strands in Russian Art, London: Pindar Press, 2005, ix+589 pp. Collected essays by the author. TOC. (English)
- A.P. Kudryavtsev, N.O. Dushkina (eds.), From VKhUTEMAS to MARKhI, 1920-36 [От ВХУТЕМАСа к МАРХИ. 1920—1936: Архитектурные проекты из собрания Музея МАРХИ], Moscow: A-Fond, 2005, 231 pp. (English)/(Russian)
- 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, PDF. Reviews: Schlott (WdS DE), Liderman (UT 2010). (Russian)
- Yekaterina Bobrinskaya (Екатерина Бобринская), Russkiy avangard: granitsy iskusstva [Русский авангард: границы искусства], Moscow: Novoe literaturnoye obozrenie, 2006, 304 pp. (Russian)
- Alan Bartram, Futurist Typography and the Liberated Text, Yale University Press, 2006, 160 pp. [66] (English)
- John Milner, A Slap in the Face! Futurists in Russia, London: Philip Wilson, 2007, 112 pp. [67] (English)
- Andrey Fomenko (Андрей Фоменко), Montazh, faktografiya, epos. Proizvodstvennoe dvizheniye i fotografiya [Монтаж, фактография, эпос. Производственное движение и фотография], St Petersburg: Sankt-Peterburgskiy universitet, 2007. (Russian)
- S.L. Konstantinova, Russkiy poeticheskiy avangard: XX vek: uchebno-metodicheskoe posobie k spetskursu [Русский поэтический авангард: XX век: Учебно-методическое пособие к спецкурсу], Pskov: PGPU, 2007, 98 pp. (Russian)
- Margarete Vöhringer, Avantgarde und Psychotechnik. Wissenschaft, Kunst und Technik der Wahrnehmungsexperimente in der frühen Sowjetunion, Göttingen: Wallstein, 2007, 278 pp. (German) [68] [69]
- Andrew Spira, The Avant-Garde Icon: Russian Avant-Garde Art and the Icon Painting Tradition, Lund Humphries, 2008, 224 pp. [70]. Reviews: McKever (AB 2009), Bowlt (SR 2010), Willimott (EHQ 2011). (English)
- 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, xii+232 pp. Review: Norris (AHR 2009). (English)
- Ilia Dorontchenkov (ed.), Russian and Soviet Views of Modern Western Art, 1890s to Mid-1930s, trans. Charles Rougle, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009. (English)
- Elizabeth Astrid Papazian, Manufacturing Truth: The Documentary Moment in Early Soviet Culture, Northern Illinois University Press, 2009, xiii+282 pp. Reviews: Lenoe (NEP 2009), Corney (AHR 2010), Baraban (SEEJ 2010), Willimott (EHQ 2011), Platt (Kritika 2013), Anemone (CASS 2013). (English)
- Tim Harte, Fast Forward: The Aesthetics and Ideology of Speed in Russian Avant-Garde Culture, 1910-1930, Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2009, 330 pp. [71]. Reviews: Crane (SEEJ 2010), Fore (RR 2010), Firtich (SR 2011), Rüthers (Kritika 2013). (English)
- Wolfgang Mende, Musik und Kunst in der sowjetischen Revolutionskultur, Cologne/Weimar: Böhlau, 2009, 644 pp. (German) [72]
- Andrey Krusanov (Андрей Крусанов), Russkiy avangard [Русский авангард], 3 vols., Moscow: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2010. (Russian) [73]
- Sabine Flach, Margarete Vöhringer (eds.), Ultravision. Zum Wissenschaftsverständnis der Avantgarde, Munich: Fink, 2010, 268 pp. (German) Contents, Review.
- Margarete Vöhringer, "Choks, Reflexe, Asja. Zu Benjamins 'Vertiefung der Apperzeption' im russischen Avantgarde-Film", pp 201-210.
- S. Shargorodsky (ed.) Obvaly serdtsa: Avangard v Krymu, Moscow: Salamandra, 2011, 187 pp. (Russian)
- Kirsti Ekonen (Кирсти Эконен), Tvorets, subyekt, zhenshchina: strategii zhenskogo pisma v russkom simvolizme [Творец, субъект, женщина: Стратегии женского письма в русском символизме], Moscow: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2011, 400 pp. (Russian)
- Gennadiy Aygi (Г. Н. Айги), Tvortsy budushchikh znakov. Russkiy poeticheskiy avangard [Творцы будущих знаков. Русский поэтический авангард], Moscow: Salamandra, 2011, 157 pp. (Russian)
- Rosamund Bartlett, Sarah Dadswell (eds.), Victory over the Sun: The World’s First Futurist Opera, Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2012. (English)
- E.V. Sidorina (Е.В. Сидорина), Konstruktivizm bez beregov. Issledovaniya i etydy o russkom avangarde [Конструктивизм без берегов. Исследования и этюды о русском авангарде], Moscow: Progress-Traditsiya, 2012, 656 pp. (Russian)
- Anindita Banerjee, We Modern People: Science Fiction and the Making of Russian Modernity, Wesleyan University Press, 2013, x+206 pp, PDF. Reviews: Howell (SR 2013), Jacob (SFRevu 2013), Taunton (LH 2014), Adams (Isis 2015). (English)
- Nina Gurianova, The Aesthetics of Anarchy: Art and Ideology in the Early Russian Avant-Garde, University of California Press, 2012, x+345 pp. Reviews: Johnson (Choice 2012), Spieker (SR 2013). (English)
- Julia Vaingurt, Wonderlands of the Avant-Garde: Technology and the Arts in Russia of the 1920s, Northwestern University Press, 2013, 322 pp. [74]. Reviews: Dralyuk (NEP 2013), Harte (SR 2014). (English)
- 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. Reviews: Pyzik (Calvert 2013), McSwiggen (n+1 2013), Ludovico (Neural 2013), Gotlib (CMJ 2014). (English)
- 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. (German)/(English)
- Pamela Kachurin, Making Modernism Soviet: The Russian Avant-Garde in the Early Soviet Era, 1918-1928, Northwestern University Press, 2013, xxiii+145 pp. Revised version of author's 1998 thesis. [75], [76]. Reviews: Barr (NEP 2014), Burns (NRB 2014), Spieker (SR 2015), Gérin (CSP 2015). (English)
- Philip Cavendish, The Men With the Movie Camera: The Poetics of Visual Style in Soviet Avant-Garde Cinema of the 1920s, London: Berghahn, 2013, 362 pp. TOC & Introduction, [77]. Reviews: Hicks (NEP 2014), Nesbet (SEER 2014), Harte (SR 2015). (English)
- "Illusions Killed by Life": Afterlives of (Soviet) Constructivism, Princeton University, 2013. Conference proceedings. (English)
- Christina Lodder, Maria Kokkori, Maria Mileeva (eds.), Utopian Reality: Reconstructing Culture in Revolutionary Russia and Beyond, Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2013. [78] [79] (English)
- Igor Chubarov (Игорь Чубаров), Kollektivnaya chuvstvennost. Teorii i praktiki levogo avangarda [Коллективная чувственность. Теории и практики левого авангарда], Moscow: Vysshaya shkola ekonomiki, 2014, 344 pp. (Russian) Contents and Introduction, [80]
- Konstantin Akinsha (ed.), Russian Modernism: Cross-Currents of German and Russian Art, 1907-1917, Prestel, 2015, 208 pp. [81] (English)
Special journal issues
- Screen 12(4): "Soviet Film 1920s", London, Winter 1971-72.
- October 7: "Soviet Revolutionary Culture", MIT Press, Winter 1978.
- Architectural Design 61(9-10): "The Avant-Garde. Russian Architecture in the Twenties", eds. Catherine Cooke and Justin Ageros, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991, 96 pp.
- October 118: "Soviet Factography", ed. Devin Fore, MIT Press, Fall 2006.
Book chapters, Papers, Articles (selection)
- Clare Cavanagh, "Pseudo-Revolution in Poetic Language: Julia Kristeva and the Russian Avant-Garde", Slavic Review 52:2 (Summer 1993), pp 283-297.
- Nikolai Izvolov, "The History of Drawn Sound in Soviet Russia", trans. James Mann, Animation Journal (Spring 1998), pp 54-59.
- Annemarie Jaeggi, "Relations between the Bauhaus and the Russian avant-garde as Documented in the Collection of the Bauhaus archive Berlin", Heritage at Risk, Special Edition: "The Soviet Heritage and Europe Modernism" (April 2006).
- Konstantin Akinsha, Sylvia Hochfield, "The Faking of the Russian Avant-Garde", ARTnews, 1 July 2009.
- "Russia, The Soviet Union, and Ukraine", in The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines, vol. 3 (Europe, 1880-1940), New York: Oxford University Press, 2013, pp 1237-1362. [82]
- Nancy Perloff, "Mirskontsa (Worldbackwards): Collaborative Book Art and Transrational Sounds", Getty Research Journal 5 (2013), pp 101-118.
Theses
- Charlotte M. Humphreys, Cubo-Futurism in Russia, 1912-1922: The Transformation of a Painterly Style, University of St Andrews, 1989. PhD Dissertation. (English)
- Maria Gough, The Artist as Producer: Karl Ioganson, Nikolai Tarabukin and Russian Constructivism, 1918-1926, Harvard University, 1997. Dissertation. Incl. Ioganson's Ot konstruktsii k tekhnike i izobreteniiu and its EN trans. as From Construction to Tekhnika and Invention. (English)
- Charlotte Greve, Writing and the 'Subject': Image-Text Relations in the Early Russian Avant-Garde and Contemporary Russian Visual Poetry, Amsterdam: University of Amsterdam, 2004, 344 pp. Ph.D. Dissertation. (English)
- Sarah Julie Dadswell, The Spectacle of Russian Futurism: The Emergence and Development of Russian Futurist Performance, 1910-1914, Vol. 1, Vol. 2, Vol. 3, University of Sheffield, 2005. Dissertation. (English)
- Dennis Ioffe, The Poetics of Personal Behaviour. The Interaction of Life and Art in Russian Modernism (1890-1920), Amsterdam: University of Amsterdam, 2009, 324 pp. Ph.D. Dissertation. [83] (English)
- Christine Schick, Russian Constructivist Theory and Practice in the Visual and Verbal Forms of "Pro Eto", Berkeley: University of California, 2011, 178 pp. Dissertation. (English)
- Aleksandar Bošković, Photopoetry and the Bioscopic Book: Russian and Czech Avant-Garde Experiments of the 1920s, University of Michigan, 2013, 309 pp. Dissertation. (English)
Bibliographies
- Peter W. Hellyer (ed.), A Catalogue of Russian Avant-Garde Books 1912-1934, London: The British Library, 1994. [84]
- A Catalogue of Russian Avant-Garde Books 1912-1934 and 1969-2003, 2nd ed., London: British Library, 2006, 202 pp. Review.
- Russian Avant-Garde Artists’ Books 1969-2010 in the British Library.
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
- Cine Fantom aka Parallel Cinema circle (*1984, Moscow and St Petersburg): Igor Aleinikov, Glen Aleinikov, and others
- Mzhalalafilm group (1980s, St Petersburg): Evgeny Ufit (necrorealism), Evgeny Kondratev
- Che-Paev group (*1988, St Petersburg)
- Leningrad Film School (*1988, St Petersburg): Alexander Sokurev and others
- Vladimir Kobrin
- Literature
- http://www.pitt.edu/~slavic/video/prerevolutionary.html
- http://www.pitt.edu/~slavic/video/earlysoviet.html
- Seth Graham (ed.), Necrorealism: Contexts, History, Interpretations, Pittsburgh, 2001.
- Soviet cinema : film periodicals, 1918-1942. Part 1. Journals.
Interactive environments and installations
- Artists
- Dvizheniye group (Moscow), 1960s-1970s
- Prometei group (Kazan), 1960s-1990s
- ARGO group (Moscow), 1970s
- 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. [85]
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. [86] [87] [88]
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. [89]
- Artists
- Gia Rigvava
- Sergey Shutov
- Vladimir Mogilevsky
- Kirill Preobrazhensky
- Aleksey Isaev
- Vadim Fishkin
- Boris Yukhananov, first video in 1985
- Aleksandr Molodkin and Vitaly Bashmolkin
- 1990s: Bulat Galeyev
- The Blue Noses group (*1999): Alexander Shaburov (Ekatarinenburg), Viatsheslav Mizin (Novosobirsk)
- Video installations
- 1990s: Isupov, Galeyev, Isaev, Fishkin
- Events
- History of Russian Video Art, exhibition series, 2007-2010, Moscow
- Collections
- collectors: Antonio Geusa, Dmitry Pilikin (St Petersburg)
- Articles
- Anatoly V. Prokhorov, "HALF A KINGDOM FOR A STRANGE HORSE !". [90]
- "From Underground to Foreground: The Rise of Video Art in Russia". [91]
- Lucie Buechting, "Carbon Club: On Russian Video Art", 2004. [92]
- Resources
- http://videotochka.ru/ - russian video art gallery, edition 2009
- Anthology of Russian Video Art, [93] [94] [95] [96] [97] [98] [99] [100]
Electroacoustic and experimental music, sound art
- Electro-acoustic music
- Valery Beluntsov, composer, founded Electro-acoustic studio in Moscow State Musical College
- Julia Dmitryukova, Composer, Musicologist
- Dmitry Tcheglakov, Composer, cellist
- Stanislav Kreichi, Composer, Sound Engineer. In 1961 joined group of engineers and composers who designed ANS synthesizer and with the ANS composed music for several films, performances and shows
- Vladimir Nikolaev, composer
- Tatyana Mikheyeva, composer
- Sergei Zagny, composer and musicologist
- Michael Prosniakov, Musicologist, Founder and Director of Stockhausen Institute, Moscow.
- Electronic music
- Works
- Electronic_music_instruments_in_CEE
- CD Mrs. Lenin. Electro-Acoustic music from the Theremin Center, http://payplay.fm/theremincenter
- Discography of Theremin Works, compiled by Matthias Sauer, Leonardo. [101]
- 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
- Stockhausen Institute, Moscow, *1991, founded and directed by Michael Prosniakov
- Theremin Center, Moscow, *1992, directed by Andrey Smirnov
- Electro-acoustic studio in Moscow State Musical College
- Literature
- "Recent Russian Texts on the Theremin", compiled by N. Nesturkh, B. Galeyev, S. Zorin, I. Vanechkina and S. Sintzova. Leonardo. [102]
- "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. [103]
New media art, Media culture
- Cities
Moscow, St Petersburg, Kazan, Yekaterinburg, Sebastopol, Perm
- Resources
- Eva Wohlgemuth and Kathy Rae Huffman, Siberian Deal, travel report, 1995. [104], [105]
- Mediatheque, First collection of media art in Russia with a non-commercial access, [106]
- http://www.mediamuseum.ru, [107]
- diss.cetera ostWEB, [108]
- Literature
- Collaborative research on internet in Russia, [109]
- Katherine Liberovskaya, "Behind the Cyrillic Curtain : Notes on Internet Art and Culture in Russia", 2001, [110]
- Lev Manovich, "Behind the Screen / Russian New Media", 1997. [111]
- Andrea Hapke, Andrea Jana Korb, "Russische cyberfeministische Strategien", course plan, 2002. [112]
- Andrea Hapke and Andrea Jana Korb, "'Russische' cyberfeministische Strategien zwischen Realität, Virtualität und Fiktion – Ein Dialog", German. [113]
- Florian Schneider and James Allen. Runet - interview with olia lialina. 2000. [114]
- Jürgen Bruchhaus, "Runet 2000 - Politik und russisches Internet", Master thesis, 2000, German. [115] [116]
- Media Art in Russia. ISEA Newsletter #95, January-February 2004. [117], [118]
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. [119]
- "Bibliography of Articles Published in Leonardo on Art, Science and Technology in the Former Soviet Union", Leonardo. [120]
- "Russian Books on Art, Science and Technology (1992-2000)", compiled by Leonardo International Co-Editor Bulat M. Galeyev and Vladimir G. Chudnovsky. [121]
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