Osip Brik

Photo by Alexander Rodchenko, 1924.
Born	January 16, 1888(1888-01-16) Moscow, Russia
Died	February 22, 1945(1945-02-22) (aged 57) Moscow, Soviet Union

Osip Maksimovich Brik (Осип Максимович Брик; 1888–1945) was a Russian avant-garde writer and literary critic.

Writings

• "Zvukovye povtory" [Звуковые повторы], in Sborniki po teorii poeticeskogo jazyka, II, Petersburg, 1917. (Russian)
• 9 essays from 1915-44. (Russian)
• editor, Iskusstvo kommuny [Искусство коммуны], 19 issues, Moscow, Dec 1918-Apr 1919. (Russian)
• editor, with Vladimir Mayakovsky, LEF, 7 numbers, Moscow: Levy Front Iskusstv, 1923-25. (Russian)
• "V proizvodstvo!", LEF 1, Moscow, Mar 1923, pp 105-108. (Russian)
  • "Into Production!" [1923], trans. Richard Sherwood, in The Tradition of Constructivism, ed. Stephen Bann, New York: Viking Press, 1974, pp 83-85. (English)
• "T.n. 'formalnyj metod'", LEF 1, Moscow, Mar 1923, pp 213-215. (Russian)
  • "The So-called 'Formal Method'", trans. Richard Sherwood, in Art in Theory, 1900-1990: An Anthology of Changing Ideas, eds. Charles Harrison and Paul Wood, Blackwell, 1992, pp 323-324. (English)
• "Od kartiny k sitsu", LEF 2, Moscow, 1924, pp 27-34. (Russian)
  • "From Pictures to Textile Prints", in Russian Art of the Avant-Garde: Theory and Criticism, 1902-1934, ed. John E. Bowlt, New York: Viking Press, 1976, pp 244-249. (English)
  • From Picture to Calico-Print, trans. Richard Sherwood, in Art in Theory, 1900-1990: An Anthology of Changing Ideas, eds. Charles Harrison and Paul Wood, Blackwell, 1992, pp 324-328. (English)
• "Selected Writings", trans. Maria Enzensberger, Screen 15:3 (Autumn 1974), pp 35-120. (English)
• "Mayakovsky and the Literary Movements of 1917-30 (Material towards a literary biography)", trans. Diana Matias, Screen 15:3 (1974), pp 59-81. (English)
• "IMO — Art of the Young (Abridged)", trans. Diana Matias, Screen 15:3 (Autumn 1974), pp 82-94. (English)
• "From the Theory and Practice of a Script Writer", trans. Diana Matias, Screen 15:3 (Autumn 1974), pp 95-103. (English)
• "O Khlebnikove" [О Хлебникове], 1944. (Russian)
  • "On Khlebnikov" [1944], trans. Diana Matias, Screen 15:3 (Autumn 1974), pp 104-109. (English)
• "Thieves", trans. Diana Matias, Screen 15:3 (Autumn 1974), pp 110-111. (English)
• "Selected Criticism, 1915-1929", trans. Natasha Kurchanova, October 134 (Fall 2010), pp 74-110. (English)
• More works. (Russian)

Bibliography

• "Osip Brik: A Bibliography", Russian Literature 8 (1980), pp 579-604.

Literature

• Vahan D. Barooshian, Brik and Mayakovsky, The Hague: Mouton, 1978, ix+157 pp. Reviews: Kemp-Welch (SS 1979), Lawton (SEEJ 1980). (English)
• Anatolii Valiuzhenich, Osip Maksimovich Brik: materialy k biografii, Akmola: Niva, 1993. (Russian)
• Natasha Kurchanova, Against Utopia: Osip Brik and the Genesis of Productivism, City University of New York, Graduate Center, 2005. Dissertation. (English)
• Poetika i fonostilistika. Brikovskii sbornik, 1. Materialy mezhdunarodnoi nauchnoi konferentsii "Pervye Brikovskie chteniia: poetika i fonostilistika", ed. G.V. Vekshin, Moscow: Moscow State University of Print Media, 2010. TOC, Colloquium. (Russian)
• Natasha Kurchanova, "Osip Brik and the Politics of the Avant-Garde", October 134 (Fall 2010), pp 52-73. (English)
• Nikolay Volskii, "Ob odnoy idee O.M. Brika", TSQ 41 (Summer 2012), pp 58-73. (Russian)

See also

• Lilya Brik
• LEF
• Russia#Avant-garde

Links

• Biography. (Russian)
• 2nd Osip Brik International Colloquium: Methodology and Practices of Russian Formalism, 2013.
• Brik at Wikipedia