Russian avant-garde

Second World War Stalin said that the USSR has won the big war, foreigners are going to come to Moscow, but what will they look at if there is still no tall buildings? We have a moral responsibility to build ones. In accordance with the statistics of Russian architectural historian Sergey Gorin, the resources used for the construction of those buildings (cost per meter) was much larger than the resources employed for the construction of buildings throughout the big country. It shows that for Joseph Stalin

Introduction If you’re thinking, “Human Equations? Does that mean a bunch of people got together and formed equations with their body?”, you might want to pause and think about how you got yourself in this situation. If you’re thinking, “Human Equations! Weren’t they done by famous photographer Man Ray?”, you’re on the right track, but not quite there yet. Formally known as Shakespearean Equations, the Human Equations are a series of paintings where artistic practice meets mathematical puzzles,

Stalin’s rule lasted almost thirty years, from the middle of the 1920’s until his death in 1953. His rule deeply transformed the USSR and destalinization is still not fully achieved today. While Stalinism and Nazism are often compared because they were the two totalitarian regimes of the 20th century, the Stalinist regime lasted for decades while Nazism collapsed after 12 years, thus raising several questions concerning the particular nature of the Stalinist Society. What were the key features of

Constantine Brancusi I found it very difficult to find information on Constantine Brancusi in hard copy, therefore, you will see at the end of my paper that all of my sources are websites. The little information I did locate on the artist was very, very little. Therefore, I combined the small amount of information with some research I found on artists that were strongly influenced by Brancusi. Brancusi's imprint on contemporary sculptural practice ranges from the dissemination of furniture-oriented

declined in popularity. - Russian Revolution continued what French Revolution started. People began to speak of atheism outside of their own homes. - The classical version of atheism is vastly different than the atheism that is known today. - Some consider “modern atheism” as one of the greatest achievements of human intellect. - Immortalization in Greek myths meant “infinite extension of existence, not the infinite projection of moral

Beginning towards the end of the nineteenth century, Paris was becoming the world’s hub for art innovators; a place that is widely regarded as the birthplace of modern art. Artists of all disciplines, from sculptors to musicians, made their way to this city to pursue their passions in a community of like-minded and passionate individuals. These artists came from all over the world, in a time before the world was made flat with commercial aviation. Once they arrived, they often found themselves in

Around the 1960’s a group of Japanese architects presented the theoretical idea of Metabolism being used in architecture at the World Design Conference as a means to cope with the increasing population of major cities in Japan. The group was called “Metabolism” with members consisting of architects Kisho Kurokawa, Kiyonori Kikutake, Masato Otaka and Fumihiko Maki, architectural critic Noboru Kawa¬zoe, industrial designer Ekuan Kenji, and graphic de¬signer Kiyoshi Awazu (Lin 514). These Metabolists

HIST 3163 Take-Home Assignment While both Sofia Petrovna by Lydia Chukovskaya and One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn describe the horrors and terror of the Great Purge under Joseph Stalin’s Soviet Union, Chukovskaya is able to describe the terror felt and lived by the ordinary person in Russia at the time while Solzhenitsyn describes the terror felt by prisoners who were arrested, innocent or otherwise, during the Purge. In Lydia Chukovskaya’s Sofia Petrovna, she aims

In May 2013, the mural depicting the Chartist movement in Newport was torn down. As it meant a lot to the local residents they protested, but to no avail. The company Mr & Mrs Clark deal with destruction and loss in their show Smash it Up. To fully understand the performance we must explore the history of this particular art form and how destruction has been used with creative indent elsewhere. Inspired by the non-consensual destruction of the mural, the three actors investigate their own attitude

experimental film released in 1929 after having been filmed over a period of three years in urban U.S.S.R and is considered by some to be both a documentary and avant-garde cinema (Aitken, 2011, p. 602). The film was shot in the Soviet cities of Kiev, Moscow and Odessa (Nytimes.com, 2015). Unlike Hollywood and the growing trends of Russian silent Cinema at the time, Vertov chose not use actors, theatrical elements and melodrama to capture the urban sprawl of Soviet Russia; calling drama a "corrupting