The Leningrad Art Scene in the 1980s: The New Artists Group

Type: 
Lecture
Audience: 
Open to the Public
Building: 
Nador u. 9, Monument Building
Room: 
TIGY Room
Thursday, March 4, 2010 - 5:30pm
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Date: 
Thursday, March 4, 2010 - 5:30pm to 7:15pm

Lecture by Anton Scheverdiaev

  • The New Artists group as a representative of a new generation of the Soviet unofficial artists: "new" understanding of art, "new" style, "new" artistic type.
  • The main forms: neo-expressionism, collage and "everythingism".
  • The New Artists group and New Wave: connections with the music scene.
  • From the Assa gallery to Assa movie.

Readings

  • Sabrina Petra Ramet, Sergei Zamascikov, and Robert Bird, “The Soviet Rock Scene,” in Rocking the State, ed. by Sabrina P. Ramet, 181-218.
  • W. J. Risch, “Soviet ‘Flower Children’, hippies and the youth counter-culture in the 1970s L’viv,” Journal of Contemporary History, 40 (2005), 565-84. JSTOR 

Recommended readings

  • Thomas Cushman, Notes from Underground: Rock Music Counterculture in Russia Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, 1995.
  • Neil Edmunds, Soviet Music and Society under Lenin and Stalin: The Baton and Sickle, London – New York: Routledge, 2004.