David Arkin. The ideologist of 'cosmopolitanism' in architecture.
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"Arkin, alongside Malevich, Tatlin, and Punin, advocated for 'left' formalistic art, fighting against realism and against the Marxist doctrine of ideological content as the basis of art," stated one of the speakers at the Honor Court over the hero of this book in 1947. David Efimovich Arkin (1899-1957), an architectural historian and critic, was one of the key figures in the most dramatic episodes of Soviet architectural history - the campaigns against formalism in the 1930s and cosmopolitanism in the 1940s. If in the first campaign he acted as an accuser, in the second he became the main accused and was labeled the 'ideologist of cosmopolitanism' in architecture. Nikolai Molok's book is an attempt to reconstruct Arkin's creative biography, starting from his fascination with symbolism and populism in the late 1910s and continuing to his participation in the 'struggle against architectural excesses' in the mid-1950s. The Appendices include some texts by Arkin from different periods, as well as previously unpublished archival documents, including materials from the Honor Court and Arkin's letters to architectural and party leadership. Nikolai Molok is a candidate of art history, a senior researcher at the State Institute of Art Studies.
Author:
Author:Molok Nikolay
Cover:
Cover:soft
Category:
- Category:Business & Money
- Category:History & Geography
Dimensions:
Dimensions:21.5x14x2.7 cm
Series:
Series:Essays on Visuality
ISBN:
ISBN:978-5-4448-2131-2
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