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==Avant-garde==
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* 1912, Niko Pirosmani’s art discovered by the local artists Ilia and Kirill Zdanevich and the Russian Painter Mikhail Le-Dantiu
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* 1917, Flowering of literary modernism. In the years following the October Revolution an influx of Russian writers, poets and artists to the Georgian capital Tbilisi.
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* 1917, Establishment of the Fantastic Tavern (Fantasticheskii kabachok), where Russian and Georgian avant-garde poets and artists recite, perform, and lecture together.
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* 1917, Cabaret Chimaera [Khimerioni] opens in Tbilisi. Designed by Sergei Sudeikin, Lado Gudiashvili and Davit Kakabadze it becomes a meeting place for members of the Russian and Georgian artistic community and brings together both Georgian and Russian art.
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* 1917, The "Futurist Syndicate", the first manifestation of the Tbilisi avant-garde. It is dominated by the organizing presence of the Muscovite Aleksei Kruchenykh and attracts local artists such as Lado Gudiashvili, the resident Armenian futurist Kara-Dervish, and the Zdanevich brothers Ilia and Kirill.
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* Kruchenykh joins forces with the Zdanevich brothers to form the futurist group Forty-One Degrees.
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* F/NAGT (ill. Rodchenko, Zdanevich), KruchenykhObesity of Roses and Lacquered Tights, Terentev’s Fakt (both with covers by Zdanevich) and To Sofiia Grigorievna MelnikovaLado Gudiashvili exhibits 80 paintings showing Futurist influence
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* 1924-28 The Georgian futurists publish three journals, all shortlived: H2SO4 (the formula for sulphuric acid), Lit'erat'ura da skhva (Literature and the Rest), and Memartskheneoba (Leftness).
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; Resources
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* [http://www.modernism.ge/index.php?lang=eng Modernism.ge], resource on Georgian avant-garde.
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; Literature
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* Olga Zhgenti, [http://www.docstoc.com/docs/41763706/Georgian-avant-garde-cinema-of-the-stormy-twenties---Georgian "Georgian Avant-Garde Cinema of the Twenties - from Anarchy to Totalitarianism"]
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==Film==
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; Publications
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* [[Media:Discovering_Georgian_Cinema_2014.pdf|''Discovering Georgian Cinema'']], ed. Susan Oxtoby, University of California, 2014, 38 pp. Brochure. [http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/films/1510]
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==New media art, Media culture==
 
'''Cities''': [[Tbilisi]].
 
'''Cities''': [[Tbilisi]].
  
  
 
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Revision as of 08:10, 2 October 2014

Avant-garde

  • 1912, Niko Pirosmani’s art discovered by the local artists Ilia and Kirill Zdanevich and the Russian Painter Mikhail Le-Dantiu
  • 1917, Flowering of literary modernism. In the years following the October Revolution an influx of Russian writers, poets and artists to the Georgian capital Tbilisi.
  • 1917, Establishment of the Fantastic Tavern (Fantasticheskii kabachok), where Russian and Georgian avant-garde poets and artists recite, perform, and lecture together.
  • 1917, Cabaret Chimaera [Khimerioni] opens in Tbilisi. Designed by Sergei Sudeikin, Lado Gudiashvili and Davit Kakabadze it becomes a meeting place for members of the Russian and Georgian artistic community and brings together both Georgian and Russian art.
  • 1917, The "Futurist Syndicate", the first manifestation of the Tbilisi avant-garde. It is dominated by the organizing presence of the Muscovite Aleksei Kruchenykh and attracts local artists such as Lado Gudiashvili, the resident Armenian futurist Kara-Dervish, and the Zdanevich brothers Ilia and Kirill.
  • Kruchenykh joins forces with the Zdanevich brothers to form the futurist group Forty-One Degrees.
  • F/NAGT (ill. Rodchenko, Zdanevich), KruchenykhObesity of Roses and Lacquered Tights, Terentev’s Fakt (both with covers by Zdanevich) and To Sofiia Grigorievna MelnikovaLado Gudiashvili exhibits 80 paintings showing Futurist influence
  • 1924-28 The Georgian futurists publish three journals, all shortlived: H2SO4 (the formula for sulphuric acid), Lit'erat'ura da skhva (Literature and the Rest), and Memartskheneoba (Leftness).
Resources
Literature

Film

Publications

New media art, Media culture

Cities: Tbilisi.


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