The Russian Avant-Garde: Scholars Respond | MoMA LIVE

Organized in conjunction with the exhibition "A Revolutionary Impulse: The Rise of the Russian Avant-Garde," this scholars' panel addresses the myriad ways in which an art object can be revolutionary.
Learn more about the exhibition: "A Revolutionary Impulse: The Rise of the Russian Avant-Garde"
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Speakers include:
Masha Chlenova, independent art historian and curator;
Devin Fore, Professor, German Department, Princeton University;
Maria Gough, Joseph Pulitzer, Jr. Professor of Modern Art, Department of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University;
Christina Kiaer, Associate Professor, Department of Art History, Northwestern University;
Kristin Romberg, Assistant Professor, Art History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Moderated by Roxana Marcoci, Senior Curator, Department of Photography, and Sarah Suzuki, Curator, Department of Drawings and Prints, The Museum of Modern Art.
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Image credit: El Lissitzky. "Proun 19D. "1920 or 1921. Gesso, oil, varnish, crayon, colored papers, sandpaper, graph paper, cardboard, metallic paint, and metal foil on plywood. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Katherine S. Dreier Bequest
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[@maheshc09]

For better comprehension I'd rather read this material than listen to it.

[@mercelloveras7453]

Thanks a lot for the lecture wich allows to understand better the Russian Avant-garde in conjunction with the exhibition.

[@stephaniebanks9650]

If the speakers would not read their text, it would be easier to understand them. They read too quickly, hence mumble, do not pause and there is very little cadence to their voice. Listening to this is quite unpleasant.

[@jppage3292]

this is the third talk by art historians i've seen on youtube where the presenters just read their damn papers. wtf.

[@paulrouhan7288]

Great set of talks. Really enjoyed it @malevichsquared

[@gabswolf]

0:00 - Presentations by Roxana Marcoci and Sarah Suzuki
8:54 - Masha Chlenova: “Alfred Barr, MoMA and the Russia Avant-Garde”
27:43 - Maria Gough (re Vesnin and Popova)
42:42 - Devin Fore: “Soviet Organizational Science: Aleksandr Rodchenko and Platon Kerzhentsev”
59:49 - Kristin Romberg: “The Tectonics of the Communist City”
1:17:05 - Christina Kiaer: “The Liberation of Women and Things”
1:37:26 - Panel Q&A

[@studioandydna]

These curators, art historians etc. only understand what they have learned, but ignore today's self-taught artists because they do not understand them. This is exactly how most art dealers and collectors act.

[@olgaalexander5856]

This is why a lot of the public and artists too dislike art historians, they leave out a lot about what is important about a culture as one of the audience members indicated for the sake of presenting, what, they, the historians feel , must be true

[@pubsociology2945]

Man, the guy from the Q and A was pretty insufferable. Otherwise, it was nice to hear a discussion of suprematism, etc.

[@janryan7812]

Feminist last speaker is the clearest talk, references current Putin-Trump climate, so the video keeps stalling there.

[@jamesanonymous2343]

this doc doesn't work. too bland, too much space between speaker, & observer.

[@victormorgado5318]

What a disaster for MoMa, their presentations have become so amateurish since they returned Guernica to Madrid...