Nikolai Tarabukin

Nikolai Mikhailovich Tarabukin (September 6, 1889 – February 21, 1956) was an art historian and philosopher.

Was born in the village Spasskoye of the Spassk Uyezd in the Kazan Province. In 1911, finished the Yaroslavl gymnasium and entered the History and Philology Faculty at Moscow University; there he studied philosophy and art history, passed examinations in art history, philosophy, logic, psychology, and literature. In September 1912, left Moscow University and entered the Demidov Juridical Lyceum in Yaroslavl. In 1913–1914, took a trip abroad in order to visit museums and study architecture. In December 1916, graduated from the Demidov Lyceum (his diploma was given on April 19, 1917) and moved to Petrograd.

From 1917 he devoted himself to the history and theory of fine art. In 1919–1920, was drafted into the Red Army, worked as a lecturer in art at the Department of Political Education of the Moscow Military District, and was an employee and lecturer of the Central Department of Military Education Institutions. In 1920–1921, gave courses in the history of environmental arts at the State Singing Academy and taught the history of Russian art at the former 1st Gymnasium, and lectured at the Proletkult (Russian for Proletarian Culture) and Moscow Institute of History and Art Research and Museum Studies.

In 1921–1924, was the full member and scientific secretary of the Institute of Artistic Culture. In 1924–1930, worked at the State (originally — Russian) Academy of Artistic Sciences, being elected its corresponding member in 1928 and the Vs. Meyerhold State Theatre Workshops. On September 15, 1927 he was employed by the All–Union State Institute of Cinematography as a lecturer in the history of art. In summer 1928, was elected head of the section of the State Academy of Artistic Sciences studying the heritage and works of Vrubel. On October 1, 1930, was confirmed as associate professor of the Institute of Cinematography. On October 15, 1934 he was taken on as an associate professor in the history of environmental arts at the A.V. Lunacharsky State Institute of Dramatic Art. In 1938, was confirmed as acting professor in the history of environmental arts at the Institute of Cinematography and the Institute of Dramatic Art. In 1942–1943, gave a course in the general history of art at Moscow State University and the Artistic and Industrial Institute (until 1944). In 1944, was confirmed as acting head of the Department of Art History of the Institute of Dramatic Art. In 1944–1949, gave a course in the history of art at the Studio School of the Moscow Academic Arts Theatre. From 1946 he lectured at the Literary Institute and was a senior staff scientist of the section studying the architecture of the peoples of the USSR at the USSR Academy of Architecture. Died in Moscow. Was buried, under his will, at the estate Voronovo near Moscow. The scientist devoted one of his last works to the history and architecture of this estate. [1]

Literature

By Tarabukin

• От мольберта к машине, 1923, 44 pp. (in Russian)
  • "From Easel to Machine".
• "The Art of the Day" [Iskusstvo Dnya], 1925.
• Le Dernier tableau: Du chevalet à la machine / Pour une théorie de la peinture, Paris: Champ Libre, 1972. (in French)
  • El último cuadro: Del caballete a la máquina/Por una teoría de la pintura, trans. Rosa Feliu and Patricio Vélez, Barcelona: Gustavo Gili, 1977. (in Spanish)
• Михаил Александрович Врубель, Moscow: Искусство, 1974, 174 pp. (in Russian) [2]
• Очерки по истории костюма, Moscow: ГИТИС, 1994, 155 pp. (in Russian)
• Смысл иконы, Moscow: Изд-во Правосл. Братства Святителя Филарета Московского, 1999, 224 pp. (in Russian) Философия иконы [3]

On Tarabukin

• А. Г. Дунаев (ed.), Библиографический указатель трудов Н. М. Тарабукина, архивных материалов и литературы о Н. М. Тарабукине, Moscow: ГИТИС, 1990, 61 pp. (in Russian)
• Maria Gough, The Artist as Producer: Karl Ioganson, Nikolai Tarabukin and Russian Constructivism, 1918-1926, Harvard University Press, 1997.
• А. Г. Дунаев, "Изданные труды Н. М. Тарабукина", in О. М. Фельдман (ed.), Н. М. Тарабукин о В. Э. Мейерхольде, Moscow: ОГИ, 1998, pp 96—108. (in Russian)
• А. Г. Дунаев, "Некоторые даты жизни, творчества и научно-преподавательской деятельности Н. М. Тарабукина", in Н. М. Тарабукин, Смысл иконы, Moscow: Изд-во Правосл. Братства Святителя Филарета Московского, 1999, pp 213—219. (in Russian)
• Maria Gough, "Tarabukin, Spengler, and the Art of Production", October 93, 2000.

External links

• http://old.uniyar.ac.ru/index.php/Tarabukin_Nikolai_Mikhailovich
• http://orthpedia.de/index.php/Nikolaj_Tarabukin
• http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola%C3%AF_Taraboukine
• http://www.uniyar.ac.ru/index.php?title=Tarabukin_Nikolai_Mikhailovich&uselang=en