The symposium is based on the book Avant -
Garde Museology, edited by Arseny Zhilyaev, -LSB-...]
Avant -
Garde Museology book presentation and discussion between Arseny Zhilyaev and Stanislav Savitsky.
Edited by Arseny Zhilyaev, Avant -
Garde Museology documents the progressivism of the period, with texts by Alexander Bogdanov, Nikolai Fedorov, Kazimir Malevich, Andrey Platonov, Aleksandr Rodchenko, and many others — several of which are translated into English for the first time.
Zhilyaev is the editor of Avant -
Garde Museology (V - a-c Press with e-flux and University of Minnesota Press, 2015).
The editor of Avant —
Garde Museology reflects upon the main conclusions drawn from his research for the book.
And yet, though the early decades of 20th - century Russia have been firmly registered in today's art history as a time of radical social and artistic change, the uncompromising and often absurd ideas in Avant -
Garde Museology appear alien to a contemporary art history that explains suprematism and constructivism in terms of formal abstraction.
Taking its cue from the recently published book Avant -
Garde Museology, the symposium will address the memory machine of the contemporary museum vis - à - vis its relationship to the contemporary artistic practices, sociopolitical contexts, and theoretical legacies that shape and animate it.
Not exact matches
Marxist
museology appeared to provide a possible solution to the dilemma the historical avant —
garde posed to artistic institutions.