Osip Brik
 Photo by Alexander Rodchenko, 1924. | |
| Born |
January 16, 1888 Moscow, Russia |
|---|---|
| Died |
February 22, 1945 (aged 57) Moscow, Soviet Union |
Osip Maksimovich Brik (Осип Максимович Брик; 1888–1945) was a Russian avant-garde writer and literary critic.
Contents
Writings
- "Zvukovye povtory" [Звуковые повторы], in Sborniki po teorii poeticeskogo jazyka, II, Petersburg, 1917. (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)
- О. Б., "V proizvodstvo!" [В производство], LEF 1, Moscow/Petrograd: Gosizdat, Mar 1923, pp 105-108. (Russian)
- "Into Production!", trans. Richard Sherwood, Screen 12:4 (Winter 1971-72), pp 37-38; repr. in The Tradition of Constructivism, ed. Stephen Bann, New York: Viking Press, 1974, pp 83-85. (English)
- "T.n. 'formalnyj metod'" [Т.н. 'формальный метод'], LEF 1, Moscow/Petrograd: Gosizdat, Mar 1923, pp 213-215. (Russian)
- "The So-called 'Formal Method'", trans. Richard Sherwood, Screen 12:4 (Winter 1971-72), pp 42-44; repr. 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" [От картины к ситцу], LEF 2:2, 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, Screen 12:4 (Winter 1971-72), pp 48-51; repr. 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)
- 9 essays from 1915-44. (Russian)
- 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)
