Vitebsk: The Life of ArtYale University Press, 01.01.2007 - 391 Seiten This book examines the artistic life of Vitebsk during the years 1917-1922, when a great burst of creative experimentation transformed the modest Russian town into one of the most influential gateways to the art of the twentieth century. Spurred by native son Marc Chagall, who returned home after the October Revolution in 1917 to take the position of art commissioner, Vitebsk rose to a pinnacle of fame as an artistic laboratory for the avant-garde. It was here that such luminaries as El Lissitzky, Yuri Pen, Kazimir Malevich, Nikolai Suetin, Mikhail Bakhtin, and others worked, inspired one another, and made distinctive contributions to modernism. Art historian Aleksandra Shatskikh surveys the entire 'Vitebsk phenomenon', drawing on an array of archives in Russia and Amsterdam, many of which have never been open to Western scholars. She discusses Chagall's Academy of Art and its major teachers and students; the founding of the artists' group, UNOVIS; Malevich's architectural experiments; Bakhtin's circle; and important developments in theater and music in Vitebsk. With more than two hundred outstanding illustrations, the book brings Vitebsk to life at a fascinating and transformative moment in art history. |
Inhalt
Introduction | 1 |
ONE Vitebsk The Life of | 7 |
The Life and Work of Yuri Moiseevich Pen | 9 |
Marc Chagall Commissar of Arts | 20 |
Instructors and Studios | 30 |
Vitebsk in the Life of El Lissitzky | 57 |
The First Public Exhibition of Paintings by Local and Moscow Artists | 69 |
On the New Systems in Art | 73 |
The Artist David Yakerson | 169 |
Vitebsk in the Career of Kazimir Malevich | 184 |
Unovis and Its Activities | 198 |
The Vitebsk Museum of Contemporary Art | 225 |
Robert Falk and His Vitebsk Students | 231 |
Pen and His Students in the Early 1920s | 238 |
The Activities of the I L Perets Society | 243 |
Two Performing Arts in Vitebsk | 249 |
Toward The Utilitarian World of Things | 80 |
The First Anniversary of the Vitebsk Peoples Art School | 88 |
Activities of the Future Unovis | 92 |
Unovis Is Born | 108 |
Unovis Miscellany No 1 | 120 |
The Unovis Group Portrait | 141 |
Chagall Leaves Vitebsk | 145 |
The AllRussia Conference of Art Teachers and Students | 148 |
Unovis Emerges onto the National Scene | 154 |
The Origin of El Lissitzkys Prouns | 164 |
Theater in Vitebsk | 251 |
Musical Vitebsk | 268 |
THREE Bakhtin | 283 |
Bakhtin and His Circle in Vitebsk | 285 |
Bakhtins Vitebsk Years | 303 |
Students at the Vitebsk School of Art | 317 |
Notes | 325 |
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