HISTORY OF RUSSIAN ART II

The Sixties and Seventies in Soviet Russia. From the underground culture to the soc-art and conceptualism
The course has as objective to focus on the birth and development of unofficial art culture in Soviet Russia from the death of Stalin until the eighties. It will analyze the emergence of underground culture and trends related to it, especially the Moscow Conceptualism and Sots-Art.

The main course of the project is to provide the basic tools for understanding the aesthetics of underground culture in USSR. The figurative culture of the this period will be seen as a whole, with particular attention to the figurative arts, architecture, photography and cinema.
Knowledge: the development of underground culture in the USSR will be examined chronologically, from the 1950s until the collapse of the system. Different media will be considered, including: plastic arts, architecture, cinema, graphic design and photography.
Communicative skills: each student will be able to clearly communicate and substantiate the contents of the course.
Critical skills: to be criticized to evaluate the historical evolution of the periodicity, but also of characteristic features.
Outcomes: the learning outcomes will be evaluated by an exam.

Pass the exam of the first module

The course module will provide a chronological overview of the emergence of unofficial art in the USSR since its origins, with a focus on its most representative artists and artworks.
- the phenomenon of soviet samizdat
- the birth of unofficial art
- the phenomenon of stiljagi
- Lianozovo group
- the Biennial of dissent
- moscovit conceptualism
- the soc-art
- collective actions

Notes from the lessons and materials on Moodle
Andreeva E., Sots Arts, Crafsman House, 1995
Barbieri G., Burini S. ( a cura di), Russie!Memoria/Mistificazione/Immaginario. Arte russa del 900 dalle collezioni Morgante e Sandretti, catalogo della mostra ed. Terra Ferma, Vicenza, 2010.
Barbieri G., Bertele M., Burini S. ( a cura di), Sogno Realtà. Viktor Popkov 1932-1974, Crocetta del Montello [TV], Terra Ferma, 2014
Burini S., Realismo socialista e arti figurative.Propaganda e costruzione del mito, "Esamizdat", 2005 (III) 2-3, pp. 65-85
Burini S., Il fecondissimo nulla: alcuni esempi di semiotica dello zero nel concettualismo russo, Rivista ANNALI DI CA' FOSCARI, volume XLVII,2, pp. 191-223, 2008.
Erofeev A., Non-official Art, Craftsman House,1995
Groys B., Lo stalinismo ovvero l'opera d'arte totale, 1992, Garzanti, Milano
Niero A., La persistenza della poesia dall'URSS alla Russia, in Otto poeti russi, "In forma di parole", II, 2005, pp. 271-352
Ripa di Meana C., L'ordine di Mosca: fermate la Biennale del dissenso, Liberal, Roma, 2007
Tamruchi N., Moscow Conceptualism, Craftsman House, 1995
Tupicyn M., Arte Sovietica Contemporanea, Politi, Milano,1989

Bibliographical integrations for NON-ATTENDING students:
Degot E., Contemporary painting in Russia, Craftsman House, 1995. La schede degli autori trattati.

It is possible to take the exam not attending, following the program of additions indicated by the teacher in the bibliographic part.
The exam includes three open questions (compulsory and with a value of 21 points), the written presentation of a topic as desired (3 points) and the recognition of three works (6 points).
If you do not answer a full compulsory question, the exam is considered insufficient.

Lectures with projected images. There will be a screening of movies. Lectures by other scholars.
A part of the course will be dedicated to the presentation of research and papers of the students, previously agreed with the professor.

Paintings commented in class, are available in the Learning Materials section of the teacher's page. If you can't attend the course, it's possible to take the exam with bibliographic additions indicated in the bibliography

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