Lecture course "Theory of the Russian avant-garde: author’s course of Andrei Sarabyanov" Automatic translate

The Jewish Museum, together with the Encyclopedia of Russian Avant-Garde, opens a set for Andrei Sarabyanov’s new course on the history and theory of the Russian avant-garde.

The cycle about the origins of the avant-garde in Russia, its keynotes and main features starts on January 23, 2019. These are 12 substantial lectures during which students will follow the history of the avant-garde in Russia from the beginning of the 20th century to the era of the collapse of hopes in the 1930s. Researchers of the history of the Russian avant-garde will understand the role of various artistic movements in the formation of the avant-garde movement.

Course author: Andrei Sarabyanov, historian, curator, candidate of art history, author of the fundamental three-volume Encyclopedia of Russian Avant-Garde, as well as a number of monographs and publications on the Russian avant-garde.

The course starts on January 23, 2019, classes will be held on Wednesdays at 19:30 in the museum building at 11 Obraztsova Street, Building 1A.

Lecture topics:

1. Vanguard to avant-garde. Symbolism and modern at the turn of the twentieth century.
Date: 23 January 2019
Lecturer: Andrey Sarabyanov

2. Grammar and mythology of the avant-garde. Theory of Art Vanguard.
Date: January 30, 2019
Lecturer: Ekaterina Lazareva

3. The early vanguard and its origins.
Date: February 6, 2019
Lecturer: Ekaterina Lazareva

4. The first words of the avant-garde. Poetry and painting in a futuristic book.
Date: February 13, 2019
Lecturer: Vladimir Polyakov

5. Without illusions. Abstraction and non-objectivity in the Russian avant-garde.
Date: February 20, 2019
Lecturer: Alexander Kremer

6. Primitivism. Folk and urban culture as sources of ideas.
Date: February 27, 2019
Lecturer: Andrey Sarabyanov

7. Expressionism in the Russian avant-garde.
Date: March 6, 2019
Lecturer: Andrey Sarabyanov

8. Cultural construction in the post-revolutionary vanguard.
Date: March 13, 2019
Lecturer: Lyubov Pchelkina

9. Constructivism - a new program of painting and architecture.
Date: March 20, 2019
Lecturer: Konstantin Dudakov-Kashuro

10. The big theatrical experiment. Theater in the Russian avant-garde.
Date: March 27, 2019
Lecturer: Maria Lipatova

11. VKHUTEMAS in the European context. Soviet painting of the 1920s - early 1930s.
Date: April 3, 2019
Lecturer: Andrey Sarabyanov

12. Vanguard and the sixties.
Date: April 10, 2019
Lecturer: Andrey Sarabyanov