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.

Works

Iskusstvo i klassy, 1923.

• "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)

• Б. А., "Oveshchestvlennaya utopiya" [Овеществленная утопия], Lef 1, Moscow, Mar 1923, pp 61-64. (Russian)
  • "Materialized Utopia", trans. Richard Sherwood, in Tradition of Constructivism, 1974, pp 85-89. (English)

• "Utopiya ili nauka?" [Утопия или наука?], Lef 4, Moscow, 1923, pp 16-21. (Russian)

• 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. [1] (Russian)
  • "Art and Class", trans. John Bowlt, in Tradition of Constructivism, 1974, pp 43-48. Trans. of excerpts. (English)

• Iskusstvo i proizvodstvo [Искусство и производство], 1926. (Russian)
• Ob agit i proziskusstve [Об агит и прозискусстве], 1930. (Russian)

Literature

• "Boris Arvatov's Socialist Objects", October 81 (Summer 1997), pp 105-118. (English)