The Circle of Artists (1926-1953): Artistic Agency in the Totalitarian Salon

艺术家圈子（1926-1953）：极权主义沙龙中的艺术机构

• 批准号: 2751280
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Cambridge
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2751280
• 关键词: Circle; Artists; 1926; 1953; Artistic

My doctoral project will focus on the Circle of Artists (Krug Khudozhnikov), a Leningrad artistic group officially active between 1926 and 1932. As the only large group of young artists within the Leningrad art scene it was a microcosm of Soviet artistic life. Thus, the broad aim of my project will be to deepen our understanding of Soviet culture and its mechanisms by examining the artistic, historical, and socio-economic contexts within which these artists worked. Further, Circle members were part of the whole generation of artists that was expunged from official accounts of art history in the Soviet Union. Decades later, Russian scholars still struggle to place them appropriately within art history, while Western scholarship omits them altogether. One of the main reasons for this is that the artists of this generation were part neither of avant-garde nor Socialist Realism. Thus, they do not fit the currently prevalent narrative of Russian 20th century art, which is generally presented as a binary relationship between avant-garde and Socialist Realism. In fact, their existence completely upends the established binary and requires a re-evaluation of Soviet art. By analyzing the art historical impact of these artists and recontextualizing them within global art history, my project will present a more nuanced and inclusive picture of Russian 20th century art.

我的博士项目将专注于艺术家圈(Krug Khudozhnikov)，这是一个在1926年至1932年期间正式活跃的列宁格勒艺术团体。作为列宁格勒艺术界唯一一大批年轻艺术家，它是苏联艺术生活的一个缩影。因此，我的项目的广泛目标将是通过考察这些艺术家工作的艺术、历史和社会经济背景来加深我们对苏联文化及其机制的理解。此外，圈子成员是被从苏联艺术史官方记录中剔除的整整一代艺术家中的一部分。几十年后，俄罗斯学者仍在努力将它们恰当地纳入艺术史，而西方学者则完全忽略了它们。其中一个主要原因是，这一代艺术家既不是前卫派，也不是社会主义现实主义的一部分。因此，它们不符合目前流行的俄罗斯20世纪艺术的叙事，这种叙事通常被描述为先锋派和社会主义现实主义之间的二元关系。事实上，它们的存在完全颠覆了既定的二元论，需要重新评估苏联艺术。通过分析这些艺术家的艺术历史影响，并将他们重新置于全球艺术史的背景下，我的项目将呈现一幅更细微、更具包容性的俄罗斯20世纪艺术图景。