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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
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
Course author: Galina Yelshevskaya
Read by Adam Muskin
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Russian Modern
The story of how Sergei Diaghilev and his visionary friends sought to improve Russia’s unsightly reality – and what came of it
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Russian Avant-Garde
How Malevich, Kandinsky, Rodchenko, Tatlin, Larionov, and others created the radically new art of the 20th century
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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
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Socialist Realism
How Stalin created Soviet Union’s only permissible style of painting
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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
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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
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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
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Action Art: Performances, Actions, Happenings
From the Futurists to Pussy Riot: how hooliganism, self-injury and strange behaviour became art
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Test Yourself
This course was prepared for you by:
Editorial directorKirill GolovastikovProduction editorsDmitry PerevozchikovMarina Nafikova
CorrectorsDarya GogolevaIrina KolychevaVera ShabelnikovaTatyana ShapiroDesignerPete Sutupov
DevelopersSergei BurukhinSergei MerkulovEditor-in-chiefFilipp Dzyadko
Audio
AuthorGalina YelshevskayaRead byAdam MuskinRecorded atVolna FXPhoto editorAnna Balala
Proofread byJessica KanerTranslated byMarina PustilnikAnastasia SukhanovaEdited byBen McGarr
ProducerEkaterina Lamm
Video
Script writersKirill GolovastikovAlexander UrzhanovAcademic advisorsGalina YelshevskayaSasha ObukhovaPhoto editorNastya IndrikovaTranslated byNatalia UshkovaEdited byVera RadunskySergei ZakinBen McGarr
Motion designerEkaterina FedorovaDesignerIvan StepanenkoComposerMikhail SarabyanovSound designerAlexei Vorobyev
Offscreen voiceBrian CoxProducersEkaterina LammEkaterina DryazginaYulia LogachevaExecutive producerAlexander Urzhanov
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