Title & Author:

Avant-garde museology / Arseny Zhilyaev, editor ; published in collaboration with V-A-C Foundation.

Publication:

New York, NY : E-flux ; Moscow, Russia : Published in collaboration with V-A-C Foundation, [2015]
Minneapolis, Minnesota : Distributed by the University of Minnesota Press.
©2015

Description:

628 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.

Series:

E-flux classics

Notes:
Anthology of texts translated from Russian into English.
Includes bibliographical references.
Preface / Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, Anton Vidokle -- Introduction. Avant-garde museology : toward a history of a pilot experiment / Arseny Zhilyaev -- I. Museum as common task. The museum, its meaning and mission (c. 1880s) / Nikolai Fedorov; The art of resemblances (of false artistic regeneration) and the art of reality (of real resurrection): Ptolemaic and Copernician art (c. 1890s) / Nikolai Fedorov; The Voronezh Museum in 1998 (1898) / Nikolai Fedorov; The Catherine the Great exhibition at the Voronezh Regional Museum (1896) / Nikolai Fedorov and Nikolai Peterson; On the Cathedral of the Resurrecting Museum (1921) / Vasiliy Chekrygin; The church ritual as a synthesis of the arts (1918) / Pavel Florensky; On the creation of a pantheon in the USSR: A proposal (1927) / Vladimir Bekhterev; Materials on the Institute of Biography (1920) / Nikolai Rybnikov; "The Revolution Memorial Reservation," an excerpt from the novel Chevengur (1926-28) / Andrey Platonov; The Astronomical Observatory at the Perm Regional Museum (1935) / V.I. Karmilov.
II. The museum of avant-gardism. 'The Museum of Art," an excerpt from the novel Red Star (1908) / Aleksandr Bogdanov; On the museum (1919) / Kazimir Malevich; The museum newspaper: Suggestion for regional museums and community centers (1931) / V. Karpov; Avalanche exhibitions: The experience of the Leningrad Organization of Worker-artists (1933) / Leonid Chetyrkin; On the question of museums: Record of the discussion of problems and objectives of Fine Art Museums at the Art and Industry Board (1919) / Moscow Department of Museum Affairs; The museum and proletarian culture: Speech at the meeting of the first all-Russian Museum Commission (1919) / Osip Brik; On the results of the Museum Conference (1919) / Nikolai Punin; On the Museum Bureau (1920-21) / Aleksandr Rodchenko; The Museum of Painting Culture at Rozhdestvenka Street, 11 (1926) / from Museums and Places of Interest in Moscow -- III. The materialistic museum. Lenin's attitude toward museums (1931) / Nadezhda Krupskaya; Dialectical materialism and the construction of the museum (1931) / Ivan Luppol; Marxist exhibition methods for natural science museums (1931) / Boris Zavadovsky; The permanent exhibitions of fine art museums: Joint report (1931) / Aleksey Fedorov Davydov; An experiment in Marxist exhibition-making at the state Tretyakov Gallery (1931) / Natalya Kovalenskaya; Everyday life of the working class from 1900 to 1930 exhibition: History and Everyday Life Department of the State Russian Museum (1931) / Valentin Kholtsov; On a museum of industry and art (1931) / David Arkin; A museum exhibition or a theatrical performance? (1932) / N.A. Shneerson; On the question of the principles of exhibition: Central Park of Culture and Leisure Exhibitions (1932) / I.M. Zykov -- Plates.
IV. The museum outside of the museum. Museums in industrial enterprises (1931) / K.I. Vorobyov; The experience of developing mobile exhibitions (1931) / Yuri Samarin; Museum in the street (1931) / P.N. Khrapov; Bringing the agitprop-truck to the service of cultural construction (1932) / M.S. Ilkovsky; The mobile model of the instructive laboratory van and its operation (1935) / I.F. Sheremet -- V. Museum of the history of the revolution. Marxism-Leninism in exhibitions in the Museums of Revolution (1931) / Andrey Shestakov; Museums of the Revolution (1931) / Nikolai Druzhinin; A new exhibition at the Leningrad Museum of the Revolution (1931) / Vera Leykina; The museum as weapon of class struggle: Here and abroad (1934) / Roza Frumkina -- VI. The Atheist's Museum. An exhibition and panorama of the Moscow Crematorium (1931) / A.F. Levitsky; The question of exhibitions in antireligious museums (1931) / S.P. Lebedyansky; The museum of the frontlines of the war on religion (1932) / Yuriy Kogan; Antireligious work at the Kliment Timiryazev Biomuseum: Supplementary report (1931) / Vorontsovsky; Church of painting and its history as an object of antireligious propaganda (1932) / Ivan Skulenko -- Author's biographies -- Notes on the original publications.
Translated from the Russian.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

The museum of contemporary art might very well be the most advanced recording device ever invented. It is a place for the storage of historical grievances and the memory of forgotten artistic experiements, social projects, or errant futures. But in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Russia, this recording device was undertaken by artists and thinkers as a site for experiementation. This book presents essays documenting the wildly encompassing progressivism of this period by figures such as Nikolai Fedorov, Aleksandr Rodchenko, Kazimir Malevich, and others - many translated from the Russian for the first time.

ISBN:

9780816699193 (paperback)
0816699194 (paperback)

Subject:

Avant Garde Musikgruppe
Heimatmuseum der Gemeinde Gründau
Sovetskaja Associacija Meždunarodnogo Prava
Heimatmuseum Gründau
Museums Russia (Federation) History.
Avant-garde (Aesthetics) Russia (Federation) History.
Artists and museums Russia (Federation) History.
Modernism (Art) Russia (Federation)
Modernism (Art) Russia.
Art and history Russia (Federation)
Art and history Russia.
Musées Russie Histoire.
Artistes et musées Russie Histoire.
Modernisme (Art) Russie.
Art et histoire Russie.
20.12 art museums.
Art and history.
Artists and museums.
Avant-garde (Aesthetics)
Modernism (Art)
Museums.
Museumskunde
Russia.
Russia (Federation)
Russland
1885-1935

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Zhilyaev, Arseniy, 1984- editor.
V-A-C Foundation, publisher.
e-flux classics.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 300116
Call No.: BIB 246281
Status: Available