Aleksei Gan
Aleksei Gan (born c. 1889/93/95 - died c. 1940/42) was a Russian anarchist avant-garde artist, art theorist and graphic designer. Gan was a key figure in the development of Constructivism after the Russian Revolution.[1]
Life
Gan was the first to write on art in the anarchist newspaper Anarkhiia (Anarchy) when it introduced an art section in early 1918.[2] In March 1921, Gan was one of the seven artists, including Alexander Rodchenko and his wife Varvara Stepanova, who announced themselves as the first Working Group of Constructivists.[3] The group rejected fine art in favour of graphic design, photography, posters, and political propaganda.[4] Gan collaborated with Aleksandr Rodchenko and Varvara Stepanova on a Constructivist manifesto in 1922,[5] and published his own pamphlet Konstruktivism in the same year.[6] He also founded the first Soviet film journal, Kino-Fot (or Kinofot), in 1922.[7]
Gan is believed to have died in a Russian labour camp following one of Joseph Stalin's purges.
Selected works
- Konstruktivizm (Constructivism). Tver: Tver'skoe izdatel' stvo, 1923.
- The Island of the Young Pioneers, 1924. (Documentary)
See also
References
- ↑ Jeremy Howard, Aleksei Gan, Grove Art Online.
- ↑ Nina Gourianova, The Aesthetics of Anarchy : Art and Ideology in the Early Russian Avant-Garde
- ↑ Maria Gough (2005). The Artist as Producer: Russian Constructivism in Revolution. University of California Press. p. 2. ISBN 978-0-520-22618-0.
- ↑ "Rodchenko, Alexander." by Yvonne Jones in The Oxford Companion to Western Art. Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press. Accessed 10 May 2013.
- ↑ 'Who We Are: Manifesto of the Constructivist Group', in Alexander N. Lavrentiev, ed., Alexandr Rodchenko: Experiments of the Future, 2005, pp.143-45
- ↑ Willem G. Weststeijn (2013). "Aleksei Gan's Constructivism and its aftermath". In Ralf Grüttemeier; Klaus Beekman;. Neue Sachlichkeit and Avant-Garde. Rodopi. pp. 373–. ISBN 94-012-0909-X.
- ↑ Petrič, Vlada. (1993) Constructivism in Film: The Man With the Movie Camera : A Cinematic Analysis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 13. ISBN 0521443873
Further reading
- Catherine Cooke (2003). "Sources of a radical mission in the early Soviet profession: Alexei Gan and the Moscow anarchists". In Neil Leach. Architecture and Revolution: Contemporary Perspectives on Central and Eastern Europe. Routledge. pp. 13–. ISBN 978-1-134-77164-6.
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