Nikolay Punin
Pamyatnik III internatsionala. Proyekt khud. E. Tatlina, 1920. Download.
Nikolay Nikolayevich Punin [Николай Николаевич Пунин; 28 November 1888–21 August 1953) was a Russian art scholar and writer. He edited several magazines, such as Izobrazitelnoye iskusstvo, and was also co-founder of the Department of Iconography in the State Russian Museum.
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Writings
- Yaponskaya gravyura [Японская гравюра], St. Petersburg: Apollon, 1915, 59 pp. [1] (Russian)
- Andrey Rublov [Андрей Рублёв], 1916. (Russian)
- Pervyi tsikl lektsii, chitannykh na kratkosrochnykh kursakh dlya uchiteley risovaniya: Sovremennoye iskusstvo [Первый цикл лекций, читанных на краткосрочных курсах для учителей рисования: Современное искусство], Petrograd: [Narkompros], May 1920, 84 pp. [2] [3]. Lectures given in Petrograd in summer 1919 at a crash course for student teachers of drawing. Cover by Malevich. (Russian)
- "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. (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. (English)
- Pamyatnik III internatsionala. Proyekt khud. E. Tatlina [Памятник III интернационала. Проект худ. Е. Татлина], St. Petersburg [Петроград]: IZO Narkompros, Summer 1920, [8] pp (28.1x22 cm), PDF, JPGs, DOC, bib. Punin's diary notes (1920). Discussed in Shklovsky 1923/2005, Boym 2007, Murray 2012, Gough 2015. (Russian)
- "Tatlin's Tower", trans. John Bowlt, in The Tradition of Constructivism, ed. Stephen Bann, New York: Viking Press, 1974, pp 14-17. (English)
- "Das Denkmal der III. Internationale", trans., in Tatlin, ed. Larissa Shadowa, Dresden: Verlag der Kunst/Weingarten: Kunstverlag Weingarten, 1984, pp 411-415. (German)
- "The Monument to the Third International", trans. in Tatlin, ed. Larissa Zhadova, New York: Rizzoli, 1988, pp 344-347. (English)
- "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. Trans. made in 1983 for the Open University. (English)
- Tatlin (Protiv kubizma) [Татлин (Против кубизма)], Petersburg: Gosizdat, cJul 1921, 25+[1]+[16]. [4] [5] [6]. Writing completed by Feb 1921 [7]. Commentary: Kutkova 2004. (Russian)
- Noveyshie techeniya v russkom iskusstve [Новейшие течения в русском искусстве], 1927-28. (Russian)
- Uchebnik po istorii zapadnoyevropeyskogo iskusstva [учебник по истории западноевропейского искусства], 1940. (Russian)
- O Tatline, eds. I.N. Punina and V.I. Rakitin, Moscow: RA, 1994. (Russian)
- Diaries
- The Diaries of Nikolay Punin: 1904-1953, eds. Sidney Monas and Jennifer Greene Krupala, trans. Jennifer Greene Krupala, University of Texas Press, 1999, 261 pp. [8] (English)
- Mir svetel lyubov'yu: dnevniki i pis'ma [Мир светел любовью: дневники и письма], ed. & comm. L.A. Zykova, Мoscow: Artist Rezhiser Teatr, 2000. [9] (Russian)
Literature
- Nikolay Kryschuk (Николай Крыщук), "'Da' i 'net' Nikolaya Punina" ["Да" и "нет" Николая Пунина], Zvezda 4 (2002). (Russian)
- E.N. Kutkova (Е.Н. Кутькова), "Avtograf N.N. Punina iz sobraniya NB RK" [Автограф Н. Н. Пунина из собрания НБ РК], Петербургская библиотечная школа 4 (2004), pp 24-28. (Russian)
- Natalia Murray, The Unsung Hero of the Russian Avant-Garde. The Life and Times of Nikolay Punin, Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2012, xxii+325 pp. [10]
