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Crash Course #1
Russian Art in the 20th Century
Malevich and Kabakov, Stalin and Khrushchev, the Avant-Garde, Socialist Realism and the Underground – everything you need to know about Russian art in video and in lectures
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Introduction
The last exhibit of Futurist paintings “0,10”. Petrograd, winter of 1915–1916
Bridgeman Images / Fotodom
Contents
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Audio Lectures
From Diaghilev to Pavlensky: a crash course for everyone who really wants to understand Russian art

Course author: Galina Yelshevskaya
Read by Adam Muskin
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1/8
Russian Modern
The story of how Sergei Diaghilev and his visionary friends sought to improve Russia’s unsightly reality – and what came of it
Galleries and text
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2/8
Russian Avant-Garde
How Malevich, Kandinsky, Rodchenko, Tatlin, Larionov, and others created the radically new art of the 20th century
Galleries and text
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Artistic Life in the Soviet Union after the October Revolution of 1917
How the Avant-Garde lost its bid for power – and how the new Soviet art was born
Galleries and text
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Socialist Realism
How Stalin created Soviet Union’s only permissible style of painting
Galleries and text
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The Thaw and the 1960s. The Birth of the Underground
How Khrushchev initially gave a breathing space to unofficial art and then personally drove it underground – and what that underground involved
Galleries and text
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Conceptualism and Sots Art
How Ilya Kabakov, Komar and Melamid, and other artists created the most enigmatic and intellectual style of the 20th century
Galleries and text
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Objects, Installations and Ready-Mades
From Tatlin to Kabakov: how piles of garbage, furry cups, giant spoons, and multicoloured rooms became art
Galleries and text
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Action Art: Performances, Actions, Happenings
From the Futurists to Pussy Riot: how hooliganism, self-injury and strange behaviour became art
Galleries and text
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Test Yourself
See how well you know 20th century Russian art
Test for those who have completed the lectures or think that they know everything anyway
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This course was developed in collaboration with the Vladimir Potanin Foundation
Audio lectures
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