LITERARY BOGEMIA IN RUSSIA AND IN THE USSR. REVOLUTION AND BOHEMIA

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-77
Author(s):  
O. M. Kirillina ◽  

Bohemia arose in opposition to the values and to the way of life of bourgeoisie at the moment when bourgeoisie became the largest customer in the art market. In Russia bohemia was more respectable, far from social problems and less revolutionary than in Europe, that is why representatives of the Russian avant-garde did not feel very comfortable in the restrictive bohemian environment. In the first years after the Revolution, the intense struggle of various art groups stimulated creative search and bohemia could find quite a comfortable niche. However the abolition of all art groups except the Union of Soviet Writers as well as the approval of the only acceptable method, socialist realism, in the early 30s eliminated the existence of such a free and asocial community as bohemia. Many poets and writers were repressed. These were not only critics of the government, but also totally apolitical or too revolutionary nonconformists, such as members of the OBERIU. Writers were destroyed not only by the state, but also by the deep disappointment due to the return of the spirit of Academism, Philistinism and bureaucratization, which penetrated the art world. At the same time loyal poets and writers generously endowed by the state turned into an elite.

2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (1/2) ◽  
pp. 25-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chloe Preece

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the branding of the Cynical Realist and Political Pop contemporary art movements in China. The trajectory this brand has taken over the past 25 years reveals some of the power discourses that operate within the international visual arts market and how these are constructed, distributed and consumed. Design/methodology/approach – A review of avant-garde art in China and its dissemination is undertaken through analysis of historical data and ethnographic data collected in Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong. Findings – The analysis exposes the ideological framework within which the art market operates and how this affects the art that is produced within it. In the case of Cynical Realism and Political Pop, the art was framed and packaged by the art world to reflect Western liberal political thinking in terms of personal expression thereby implicitly justifying Western democratic, capitalist values. Research limitations/implications – As an exploratory study, findings contribute to macro-marketing research by demonstrating how certain sociopolitical ideas develop and become naturalised through branding discourses in a market system. Practical implications – A socio-cultural branding approach to the art market provides a macro-perspective in terms of the limitations and barriers for artists in taking their work to market. Originality/value – While there have been various studies of branding in the art market, this study reveals the power discourses at work in the contemporary visual arts market in terms of the work that is promoted as “hot” by the art world. Branding here is shown to reflect politics by circulating and promoting certain sociocultural and political ideas.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roland Mierzwa

Several unresolved social and political challenges have engendered suffering and illness. Social problems have become an issue in medical ethics. Medication is being prescribed or psychological therapy recommended in cases where sociopolitical intervention is necessary. What we are dealing with is a high mortality rate as a consequence of social exclusion and discrimination plus an imperial way of life. This book explains the phenomenology of suffering as the foundations of empathetic ethics and reveals ways for social ethics to intervene to prevent illness, suffering and death on a huge scale, which are needed particularly urgently at the moment as a result of the coronavirus crisis. The book also highlights courses of action that Christians and their milieus can take in this respect.


2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Apri Rotin Djusfi

Based on Pasal 18 Paragraph (2) of 1945 Constitution states that "the government of province and district / city set up and manages their own affairs in accordance with the principle of autonomy and duty of assistance". Then it was mentioned in Article 18B Paragraph (1) and Paragraph (2) which states that the State shall recognize and respect the units of local government which is special and privileged, and respect the customary law community unit along with their traditional rights.Tuha Peut institution is one of the traditional institutions in Acehnese society which has the authority to maintain the existence of customary law for generations. Constituent on the Governing of Aceh mandates that the resolution of social problems customarily taken through traditional institutions. Whereas, traditional institutions have function and act as a vehicle for public participation in the implementation of the Aceh Government and district / city governments in the field of peacefullness, tranquility, harmony, and public order. Keywords: Tuha Peut, Traditional Institutions.


2021 ◽  
pp. 94-131
Author(s):  
A.V. Karpov ◽  

A problem of perfection at art is analyzed in the article according to paradigm of the art market as a system of cultural, economic and social interactions of the art world. The author finds out the vitality of the artwork not only as its essential value but also defines the idea of its imaginary vitality. The latter is created by the art market participants, and it causes the commercial value of the artwork. The article makes an assumption about the division of art, at least of the Modern and Contemporary history, into two spheres — the art of “aesthetic experience” and the art of “commercial success”. While the art of “aesthetic experience” is aimed at finding and creating a new artistic language (the embodiment of new creative ideas, complex ethical and aesthetic problems), the art of “commercial success” follows artistic stereotypes, uses creative innovations in an adapted form, which is included in the cultural and aesthetic system familiar to the audience of art. This antithesis is analyzed in the article by the example of comparing a number of works by two artists of the same time. One is Mikhail Larionov, a prominent artist of the Russian Avant-Garde, and the other is Vladislav Izmailovitch, a typical representative of Salon and Late Academic art. Considering the specific historical aspects of vitality in art, the author analyzes several examples. Firstly, the late oeuvre of the Russian artist Ilya Repin as a metaphor for the “joy of the risen”. Secondly, the Easter rarities of the House of Faberge, which have changed their status over the past century from a home memorabilia to a cultural myth and became an object of the art market nowadays. Thirdly, the exposition of the Russian pavilion at the Venice Biennale of Contemporary Art in 2019, where authors and curators exploited the vitality of Dutch and Flemish art of the 17th century as the personification of contemporary creative pursuits.


Author(s):  
Pitchapa Cheri Supavatanakul

Monochrome painting, otherwise known in Korea as Tansaekwa, was an art movement that emerged after the Korean War, lasting from the late 1960s through to the 1980s. It rose to prominence during an era of strict censorship and rapid industrialization in the 1960s and the 1970s. The policies imposed by South Korea’s then-president Park Chung-hee restricted direct political messages, thus actuating the emergence of hidden themes in abstractions within the limitations administered by the state. The Monochrome movement’s pioneer, Park Seobo (1931--), worked both with abstract artists who were critical of the government and with the National Documentary Paintings Project, producing government-commissioned artworks that advocated nationalism. Through abstraction, Monochrome paintings can raise awareness without being overtly political, and still resonate Korean tradition without submitting to the confines of the artistic establishment of the time. The Monochrome movement responded not only to political censorship, but also to the established standards of the Korean art world, eliminating notions of representation and the distance that sets the image apart from the canvas.


Author(s):  
Julian Stallabrass

‘Uses and prices of art’ details how, since the early 2000s, strong modernizing forces in the contemporary art market brought money into clear view and unabashed discussion. The prices of art and the forces that threaten art’s autonomy are all part of the story. These include the modernization of the art market, and the competing demands, promulgated by the state and business, that art should be put to use. Corporate art collecting has had a massive impact on the art world and this has been driven by the growing number of the super-rich who buy contemporary art. Ultimately, art has become a standard investment, part of the portfolio of the super-rich, used to spread risk and engage in tax avoidance.


2009 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 331-362 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diana Crane

The article examines the recent changes in art world from the characteristics of the global art market and its implications for sociological theories of art. Therefore, it focuses on the correlation established between the decline of the avant-garde art and how there are tenuous boundaries between high culture and popular culture. In this sense, it discusses and analyzes the influence increasingly exerted by actors located in countries such as the United States, England, Germany, France and, more recently, China. It concludes with how much the global art market may be illustrative of cases in which the globalization of markets expands the cultural and economic inequality by favoring the privilege of small social groups in the contemporary world.


2021 ◽  
pp. 43-53
Author(s):  
Д.А. Петрова

Статья посвящена выявлению особенностей комплектования фондов Третьяковской галереи произведениями графики русского авангарда в 20–30-е гг. ХХ в. в контексте изменения тенденций государственной культурной политики того времени. Исследование выполнено на основе данных Книг поступлений Третьяковской галереи и документов, хранящихся в Отделе рукописей музея. Проанализирована политика приобретения художественных произведений в музейные коллекции, изучена деятельность Музея живописной культуры, произведен анализ поступлений в Третьяковскую галерею. Прослежено изменение вектора культурной политики в первые годы советской власти, взявшей на вооружение реализм в качестве основного идеологического инструмента. Установлено, что графические произведения русских художников-авангардистов стали достоянием фондов Третьяковской галереи в результате двух больших поступлений – после расформирования Государственного музейного фонда (1927 г.) и вследствие ликвидации Музея живописной культуры (1929 г.). The study aims to (1) answer the question about the time and circumstances in which works of Russian avant-garde graphics appeared in the collections of the Tretyakov Gallery, and (2) determine how the efforts of the national museum aimed at acquiring its funds correlated with trends in the state’s museum policy. The study was carried out based on data from the Tretyakov Gallery’s inventory books and documents stored in the museum’s Department of Manuscripts. In the process of work, the author turned to the books of the Tretyakov Gallery acquisitions kept during the period under study, documents stored in the Department of Manuscripts of the museum, materials of the State Archive of the Russian Federation, as well as results of research by specialists in art and museum studies who examined the legacy of the Russian avant-garde and its reflection in Russian museum collections. The author mainly used methodological tools inherent in historical research: a historical-systems approach and methods of historical-comparative studies. The author analyzes changes in the state museum policy in managing the acquisition of art museum collection funds after the revolutionary events of 1917. She also investigates the work of the Museum of Pictorial Culture, whose collection included works of avant-garde artists. The author determines the moment of change in the orientations of the young Soviet state’s cultural policy; the predominant use of realism in art was the main ideological instrument of this policy. She analyzes the works of art the Tretyakov Gallery received, reveals the avant-garde works the museum obtained in the late 1930s, identifies the trends that influenced the acquisition of the gallery funds in the subsequent period. The author has established that the works of avant-garde graphics became the property of the Tretyakov Gallery funds after two large-scale acquisitions – after the dissolution of the State Museum Fund (1927) and after the liquidation of the Museum of Pictorial Culture (1929). In the 1930s, there was a deformation of all museum activities, including the acquisition of funds. In relation to the collection of modern graphics at the Tretyakov Gallery, this deformation, in particular, manifested itself in the narrowing of the subject matter and directions of acquisition, and the withdrawal from the collection of works that contradicted ideological attitudes and political dogmas.


Author(s):  
Paul Stangl

Wilhelmstrasse evolved over several centuries from an upscale residential quarter to the center of German government. Its architecture was considered less culturally and artistically significant than Unter den Linden and more tainted by association with the Prussian-German state and the NSDAP in particular. In the late 1940s, Berlin planners intended for the area to continue serving as government center. They began to transform Wilhelmplatz into a larger square, Thälmannplatz, with a memorial to honor the fallen Communist leader. After the state founding of the GDR, Ulbricht and leading GDR planners shifted planning for the government center to Marx-Engels Square, leaving Wilhelmstrasse as an area of secondary concern. Socialist realism had limited impact here, as decisions over demolition and preservation hinged more on utilitarian spatial value than architectural merit or place-based meaning. Nazi structures were cleansed of iconography and preserved, while older residential structures were demolished.


2000 ◽  
pp. 20-25
Author(s):  
O. O. Romanovsky

In the second half of the nineteenth century, the nature of the national policy of Russia is significantly changing. After the events of 1863 in Poland (the Second Polish uprising), the government of Alexander II gradually abandoned the dominant idea of ​​anathematizing, whose essence is expressed in the domination of the principle of serving the state, the greatness of the empire. The tsar-reformer deliberately changes the policy of etatamism into the policy of state ethnocentrism. The manifestation of such a change is a ban on teaching in Polish (1869) and the temporary closure of the University of Warsaw. At the end of the 60s, the state's policy towards a five million Russian Jewry was radically revised. The process of abolition of restrictions on travel, education, place of residence initiated by Nicholas I, was provided reverse.


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