Andrei Smirnov, Liubov Pchelkina: Generation Z: Russian Pioneers of Sound Art and Musical Technology in 1910-1930 (2011) [English/Hungarian]
Filed under booklet | Tags: · 1910s, 1920s, art, art history, avant-garde, music, music history, russia, sound, sound art, technology, utopia
Variophone, theremin terpsitone, rhythmicon, emiriton, ekvodin, graphical sound – just to mention a few of the amazing innovations of the beginning of the 20th century in Soviet Russia, a country and time turbulent with revolutions, wars and totalitarian dictatorship.
While the history of Russian post-revolutionary avant-garde art and music is fairly well documented, the inventions and discoveries, names and fates of researchers of sound, creators of musical machines and noise orchestras, founders of new musical technologies have been largely forgotten except, perhaps, Leon Theremin, inventor of the first electronic musical instrument, the theremin.
This community of creators, however, was inherently incompatible with the totalitarian state. By the late 1930s it became effectively written out of histories, wiped out from text books.
Many of their ideas and inventions, considered as utopian at that time, were decades later rein¬vented abroad. We still use them today not knowing their origin.
This booklet was produced for the Budapest edition of a traveling exhibition curated by Andrei Smirnov of the Theremin Center and Liubov Pchelkina of the State Tretyakov Gallery.
Publisher OSA Archivum, Budapest, 2011
ISBN 9789638853820
20 pages
exhibition (from the curators)
exhibition (gallery website)
Michelle Henning: Museums, Media and Cultural Theory (2005)
Filed under book | Tags: · archive, archiving, art, avant-garde, cultural memory, exhibition, memory, museum
Museums can work to reproduce ideologies and confirm the existing order of things, or as instruments of social reform. Yet objects in museums can exceed their designated roles as documents or specimens. In this wideranging and original book, Michelle Henning explores how historical and contemporary museums and exhibitions restage the relationship between people and material things. In doing so, they become important sites for the development of new forms of experience, memory and knowledge.
Henning reveals how museums can be theorised as a form of media. She discusses both historical and contemporary examples, from cabinets of curiosity, through the avant-garde exhibition design of Lissitzky and Bayer; the experimental museums of Paul Otlet and Otto Neurath; to science centres; immersive and virtual museums; and major developments such as Guggenheim Bilbao, Tate Modern in London and the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington D.C.
Museums, Media and Cultural Theory is unique in its treatment of the museum as a media-form, and in its detailed and critical discussion of a wide range of display techniques. It is an indispensable introduction to some of the key ideas, texts and histories relevant to the museum in the 21st century.
Publisher Open University Press, an imprint of McGraw-Hill International, 2005
Issues in Cultural and Media Studies series
ISBN 0335225756, 9780335225750
183 pages
via Jo Morfin
Jindřich Chalupecký: Úděl umělce. Duchampovské meditace (1998) [Czech]
Filed under book | Tags: · art, art criticism, art history, avant-garde, dada
V Marcelu Duchampovi nachází Jindřich Chalupecký nejdůležitěší a nejvlivnější osobnost světového moderního umění. Práce, z níž je cítit autorova hluboká zaujatost tématem, poprvé u nás podává souhrnný pohled na Marcela Duchampa, bez něhož je veškeré umění 20. století nemyslitelné. Kniha, která je výsledkem mnohaletého autorova studia, vychází doplněna řadou barevných a černobílých vyobrazení.
Epilogue: Pavla Pečinková
Publisher Torst, Prague, 1998
ISBN 8072150502
456 pages
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