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THE FIGHTING AGAINST FORMALISM IN SOVIET FINE ARTS AND THE SOVIET PERIODICALS OF THE SECOND HALF OF 1940s The analysis of publications in the soviet periodicals of the second half of the 1940-s demonstrates that the fight against... more
Котломанов А.О. Венера Советская: рожденная революцией // Новый мир искусства. 2007. № 6. С. 108-109.
Kotlomanov A.O. Venus Sovietica: Born by Revolution. The New World of Art [Novyi Mir Iskusstva], 2007, N 6, pp. 108-109 (In Russian)
Kotlomanov A.O. Venus Sovietica: Born by Revolution. The New World of Art [Novyi Mir Iskusstva], 2007, N 6, pp. 108-109 (In Russian)
The propaganda posters created from 1917 to 1991 in the Soviet Union are stylistically, and artistically incredible works of graphic design which informed the art movements of the time. In the propaganda posters, despite technological,... more
Catalogo della mostra dedicata a Viktor Ladviščenko (Виктор Михайлович Ладвищенко), pittore monumentalista sovietico. Il testo espone in ordine cronologico e ragionato tutte le opere, fin'ora rintracciate, del maestro di Leningrado,... more
FUNCTION, CONTENT AND FORM OF THE DECORATIVE ARTS OF THE SOVIET ERA Abstract: The history of development and factors that formed the phenomenon of decorative art of the Soviet period are considered. The conditions of ideological and... more
Ознакомительная версия. Автор статей и составитель альбома Д. Ю. Кривошей, автор аннотаций к предметам каталога М. И. Вилькин. — М.: ООО «Буки Веди», 2021. – 160 с.: ил. Альбом посвящен искусству златоустовской гравюры на стали периода... more
Constructivism was a modernist avant-garde art movement, originating in Russia around the 1920s. With the historical political context of the 1917 October Revolution, there was an emerging need for ‘new’ art that engaged with the... more
This edition traces the events of the Soviet art practice second half of the XXth century. The focus of the analysis is on the destiny of the monumentalist artists who graduated from leading art school of the country in 1960—1970s and... more
In this paper, I explore photography as a new and unconventional art emerging in the Soviet Union after World War II. I discuss the paradox that this art appears apolitical, seemingly socially passive, and escapist, but at the same time... more
У статті йдеться про чинники формування явища тематичного килимарства в українському мистецтві 1930 – 1960-х рр. Висвітлено специфіку розвитку цієї мистецької практики в умовах радянської тоталітарної системи та з’ясовано визначальний... more
Использование сюжетов живописи Возрождения
в советском соцреализме и работы Александра Самохвалова
первой половины 1930-х годов
в советском соцреализме и работы Александра Самохвалова
первой половины 1930-х годов
Котломанов А.О. Паблик-арт: страницы истории. Современное русское искусство в общественном пространстве. Часть 1. Монументальная скульптура. Вестн. С.-Петерб. гос. ун-та. Сер. 15. Искусствоведение. 2015. Вып. 4. С. 55—65. Kotlomanov A.O.... more
Soviet-art is more often considered an instrument of politics than a full-fledged art-movement. Because of its subjection to communist ideology, the visual heritage of the USSR is still subject of current heated political debate. In this... more
Автореферат диссертации о группе "13" (1929-1931) Диссертация защищена в Государственном институте Искусствознания, 2009
This is my MA thesis, in which I describe a district that was built to create a new type of citizens, people who were able to work in a control room, a particular type of architecture that required visual training. Rusanivka was one of... more
Котломанов А.О. Тимур Новиков и «нулевые». Петербургское современное искусство в поисках идентичности // Вестн. С.-Петерб. гос. ун-та. Сер. 15. Искусствоведение. 2012. Вып. 2. С. 173—183. Kotlomanov A.O. Timur Novikov and the Zero years.... more
У статті розглянуто особливості мистецької діяльності в контексті радянської системи виробничих відносин-планової економіки. Представлено інституційну систему художньої галузі радянського зразка, її функції, коло пріоритетів та роль, яку... more
In current Russian art theory, it’s relevant the discussion about the priorities in the study of late Soviet art, the chronological framework of which coincides in time with the genesis of postmodernism in the United States and Western... more
This exhibition catalogue features black-and-white photographs taken by the artist Durdy Bayramov (1938-2014) in the rural villages of his native Turkmenistan. In making these images available for the first time, this book introduces a... more
The Russian Revolution of 1917 has been considered the essential cause of the awakening of the artistic avant-garde of that country for a long time. One hundred years after the revolutionary events on the political and social scenes, we... more
На сегодняшний день творчество Татьяны Николаевны Глебовой начало наконец обретать заслуженную известность, что происходит во многом благодаря интересу зарубежной общественности к творчеству художников советского, в особенности,... more
Anche in: Storia della civiltà europea. Vol. 16 - il Novecento. Arti visive, RCS Quotidiani - Special edition for Il Corriere della Sera, Milano 2008, ISBN: 9771828050157, pp. 42-47. Dal mondo antico allʼinizio del terzo millennio:... more
By and large visual semiotics still misses a comprehensive method for the analysis of sculpture. The paper demonstrates that sculptures have a peculiar plastic sign-the mass. Intrinsic to three-dimensional objects, the mass determines the... more
Since the 1930s, while rethinking Stalin's formula of “culture national by its form and proletarian by its content,” historians have described the birth of art in the Soviet republics as an emergence and formation of so-called “national... more
In connection with the controversy around the Tretyakov Gallery exhibition "NotForever. 1968—1985" it's analyzed the range of texts on the problems of the methodology of art history analysis. Among the issues raised in these publications... more
The paper discusses the role of the information exchange networks in the development of photography within the Soviet Union since the mid-1960s and in the 1970s. In the USSR after World War II, photography had a limited set of... more
The article presents a biographical reconstruction of the life of the painter I. I. Brodsky (1884-1939) through the lens of his painting “Vladimir Lenin in Smolny” (1930). Brodsky (and his work are shown against the background of the... more
Начиная с 1930-х годов, переосмысливая сталинскую формулу «национальная культура по форме и пролетарская по содержанию», историки описывают рождение искусства в советских республиках как процесс возникновения и становления так называемых... more
Статья посвящена истории организации и деятельности так называемых Свободных художественных мастерских в Тамбове в 1919 году. Используя уникальные архивные материалы, автор раскрывает концептуальные основы идей «свободного художественного... more
Котломанов А.О. Паблик-арт: страницы истории. Феномен контр-монумента и кризис мемориальной традиции в современной монументальной скульптуре // Вестн. С.-Петерб. гос. ун-та. Сер. 15. Искусствоведение. 2015. Вып. 1. С. 53—70. Kotlomanov... more
Congress paper published in "Medailles", № 66, 2016
The article deals with the history of russian religious medals. The series by contemporary sculptor Andrey Mishin are the first religious medallic series in Russia.
The article deals with the history of russian religious medals. The series by contemporary sculptor Andrey Mishin are the first religious medallic series in Russia.
Котломанов А.О. Паблик-арт: страницы истории. Современное русское искусство в общественном пространстве. Часть 2. Новые формы // Вестн. С.-Петерб. гос. ун-та. Сер. 15. Искусствоведение. 2016. Вып. 1. С. 68—80. Kotlomanov A.O. Public art:... more
The analysis of work and adaptation strategies of Nikolay Gushchin, a post-WW II repatriant painter, becoming a center of Saratov nonconfomist painters circle and a kind of guru for Saratov underground.
Abstract: The current paper is interested in how female identity is artificially constructed through Soviet propaganda, particularly through a new visual language and symbolism, exemplified through the most famous Soviet sculpture,... more
RESUMO: Após o recente centenário da Revolução Russa, é necessário examinar tal acontecimento histórico a fim de refletirmos a atualidade da luta das mulheres, em uma perspectiva social e cultural. Soldadas invisíveis dos processos... more
Статтю присвячено питанню ревалоризації монументально-декоративного мистецтва радянського періоду на території України, а саме — мозаїк 1960‒1990-х років. У питаннях, пов’язаних із проблемами збереження, реставрації цього типу... more