Pavel Filonov: An Alternative Tradition?
1975; College Art Association; Volume: 34; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/00043249.1975.10793684
ISSN2325-5307
Autores ResumoAbstractA curious phenomenon of the new Soviet avant-garde is that, with a few major exceptions, it does not appear to derive from the more familiar traditions of Russian nonfigurative and Constructivist art.1 At first glance, the Expressionistic and Surrealistic works of contemporary artists such as Dmitrii Plavinsky, Oskar Rabin, Vladimir Yankilevsky, and Anatolii Zverev seem to be relying on a perverse interpretation of German Modernists such as Kirchner, Klee, and Schwitters rather than on their Russian forebears. This, however, is not entirely the case, for the new Moscow and Leningrad artists owe much more than one expects to the "alternative tradition"2 of Russian art, especially as it was refracted through the fin-de-siècle painters such as Mikhail Vrubel (1856–1910), the Russian Symbolists, and then isolated figures such as Pavel Nikolaevich Filonov (1883–1941).3 Additional informationNotes on contributorsJohn E. BowltJohn E. Bowlt is at present Associate Professor at the University of Texas Austin where he teaches the history of modern Russian art and Russian language. He has published extensively on various aspects of 20th-century Russian art and is currently writing a book on Filonov.
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