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Art and Production
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124,99 € |
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Verlag: | Pluto Press |
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Veröffentl.: | 20.08.2017 |
ISBN/EAN: | 9781786801258 |
Sprache: | englisch |
Anzahl Seiten: | 160 |
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Beschreibungen
Boris Arvatov's Art and Production is a classic of the early Soviet avant-garde. Now nearing a century since its first publication, it is a crucial intervention for those seeking to understand the social dynamic of art and revolution during the period.
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<br> Derived from the internal struggles of Soviet Constructivism, as it confronted the massive problems of cultural transformation after 'War Communism', Arvatov's writing is a major force in the split that occurred in the revolutionary horizons of Constructivism in the early 1920s. Critical of early Constructivism's social-aesthetic process of art's transformation of daily life - epitomised in studio-based painting, photography and object making - Arvatov polemicises for the devolution of artistic skills directly into the relations of production and the factory.
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<br> Whilst acknowledging the problems of a pure factory-based Productivism, Arvatov remains overwhelmingly committed to a new role and function for art outside the conventional studio and traditional gallery. Addressing issues such as artistic labour and productive labour, the artist as technician, art and multidisciplinarity and a life for art beyond 'art' - finding new relevance amidst the extensive social turn of contemporary participatory art - Art and Production offers a timely and compelling manifesto.
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<br> Derived from the internal struggles of Soviet Constructivism, as it confronted the massive problems of cultural transformation after 'War Communism', Arvatov's writing is a major force in the split that occurred in the revolutionary horizons of Constructivism in the early 1920s. Critical of early Constructivism's social-aesthetic process of art's transformation of daily life - epitomised in studio-based painting, photography and object making - Arvatov polemicises for the devolution of artistic skills directly into the relations of production and the factory.
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<br> Whilst acknowledging the problems of a pure factory-based Productivism, Arvatov remains overwhelmingly committed to a new role and function for art outside the conventional studio and traditional gallery. Addressing issues such as artistic labour and productive labour, the artist as technician, art and multidisciplinarity and a life for art beyond 'art' - finding new relevance amidst the extensive social turn of contemporary participatory art - Art and Production offers a timely and compelling manifesto.
A classic of Russian avant-garde writing, focusing on the Productivist art movement of the 1920s
Acknowledgements
<br> Introduction: Art and 'Life-Building': The Legacy of Boris Arvatov, by John Roberts
<br> 1. Capitalism and the Artistic Industry
<br> 2. Easel Art
<br> 3. Art and Production in the History of the Workers' Movement
<br> 4. Art in the System of Proletarian Culture
<br> Afterword: The 'Electrification of Art': Boris Arvatov's Programme for Communist Life, by Alexei Penzin
<br> Index
<br> Introduction: Art and 'Life-Building': The Legacy of Boris Arvatov, by John Roberts
<br> 1. Capitalism and the Artistic Industry
<br> 2. Easel Art
<br> 3. Art and Production in the History of the Workers' Movement
<br> 4. Art in the System of Proletarian Culture
<br> Afterword: The 'Electrification of Art': Boris Arvatov's Programme for Communist Life, by Alexei Penzin
<br> Index