Receptive Attitudes of the Mass Reader and Viewer in the Theory and Practice of the Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia and the All-Russian Association of Proletarian Writers – МЕЖДУНАРОДНЫЙ ЖУРНАЛ ИССЛЕДОВАНИЙ КУЛЬТУРЫ

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Alina V. VENKOVA
Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia, Saint Petersburg, Russia
48, Moika Emb., St. Petersburg, Russian Federation, 191186
Associate Professor
D. S. Likhachev Russian Institute of Cultural and Natural Heritage, Moscow
2, st. Cosmonauts, Moscow, Russian Federation, 129301.
Principal Research Fellow of the Center for Basic Studies in the Sphere of Culture
PhD in Cultural Studies
e-mail: venkova@mail.ru
ORCID: 0000-0002-3075-612X

Receptive Attitudes of the Mass Reader and Viewer in the Theory and Practice of the Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia and the All-Russian Association of Proletarian Writers

Abstract: The article shows the receptive attitudes of the “right wing” of post-revolutionary art in Russia. The design of a receptive response with a focus on the maximum viewer and reader coverage is shown on the example of artistic practice and the theoretical program of the Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia, (later – the Association of Artists of the Revolution) and the All-Russian Association of Proletarian Writers, who were guided in their activities by the aesthetic demands of the mass “new man”, This interest was also experienced by the representatives of the “left wing”, who gravitated towards experimentation and complication of the receptive form, which formed the opposite to the aesthetics of the Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia and the All-Russian Association of Proletarian Writers, an attitude towards education through the assimilation of a formal experiment. The data of sociological surveys conducted by the magazine “Art to the masses” (1924) are considered. The materialistic attitudes of the early proletarian aesthetics in the works of A. Bakushinsky and Ya. Tugendhold are shown, the declarations of the the Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia, the Association of Artists of the Revolution and the All-Russian Association of Proletarian Writers are analyzed. It is shown that the right flank of the post-revolutionary art of Russia is united by the installation of illusion, naturalism and communicative certainty, which, according to the theorists and practitioners of the AHRR and VAPP, should have contributed to the mass character and clarity of their program. The closed form, the transformation of a visual image into a narrative, communicative certainty provide the formation of universal collective perception models based on formal mimicry and receptive accessibility.

Key words: post-revolutionary art of Russia, proletarian art, Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia, Association of Artists of the Revolution, All-Russian Association of Proletarian Writers, A. Bakushinsky and J. Tugendhold, communicative certainty.

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Venkova, A. (2021). Receptive Attitudes of the Mass Reader and Viewer in the Theory and Practice of the Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia and the All-Russian Association of Proletarian Writers. International Journal of Cultural Research, 2 (43), 115–126. DOI: 10.52173/2079-1100_2021_2_115

DOI: 10.52173/2079-1100_2021_2_115