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Mother Tongue
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Yevgeniy Fiks, Juliet Jacques, Dan Healey and Sarah Wilson:
Panel discussion in association with Mother Tongue project
Apparition of the Last Soviet Artist in London
ShadowMemory x Art Night Open
Postponed Futures
Superwoman: ‘Work, Build and Don’t Whine'
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Iwona Blazwick and Zelfira Tregulova:
Roundtable Discussion -
Dolya Gavanski, Phoebe Taplin, April de Angelis, Maria Shevstova:
'Superwoman: The Changing Image And Role Of Women'
Unexpected Eisenstein
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Rachel Morley:
Russian Cinema before 1917 -
Ian Christie:
Besides Eisenstein: Protazanov, Barnet and the new Soviet cinema of the 1920s -
Ian Christie:
Maxim and co: creating the new heroes and heroines of the 1930s -
Phil Cavendish:
Soviet Colour Film, 1929-1945: An Experiment Understood by Very Few -
Jeremy Hicks:
Meaningful Martyrdom — Death, Revolution and Victory from Lenin to the Reichstag, 1924–45 -
Emma Widdis:
Film and the Making of the New Soviet Person: Bodies, Minds and Feelings -
Ian Christie:
Hopes and fears: the Soviet New Wave of the 1960s -
Carmen Gray:
Andrei Tarkovsky: The Citizen Poet and the State -
Jeremy Hicks:
Reusing War Footage in Russian and Soviet Films, 1945–2015
Peripheral Visions
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Francis Morris:
In conversation with Anthony D'Offay about Artist Rooms -
Ekaterina Degot:
In conversation with Olga Chernysheva
A Game in Hell. The Great War in Russia
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John E. Bowlt:
Introductory remarks -
Elena Sudakova:
'Forgotten Heroes of the Great War' -
Christina Lodder:
'A Painting Fit for Heroes: Kazimir Malevich's Reservist of the First Division' -
Natalia Budanova:
'Who Needs the Art Now?': Russian Women Artists Representing the Great War' -
Valentina Parisi:
'Russian Avant-Garde Circles and the Literary Response to the Great War'
Work and Play Behind the Iron Curtain
The Shabolovka Tower Model
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Tilly Blyth:
Seminar Event: Science Museum -
John Milner:
Seminar event: Courtauld Institute of Art -
Lutz Becker:
Seminar Event: Independent Art Historian -
Vladimir Shukhov:
Seminar Event: Fosters and Partners -
Xenia Vytuleva:
Seminar Event: Columbia University -
Henry Milner, Maker:
Seminar Event
Kino/Film: Soviet Posters of the Silent Screen
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Curators and Special Guests:
Panel Discussion with Exhibition -
Lutz Becker:
Curator talks: Chess Fever and The Three Million Case -
Lutz Becker:
Curator talks: Man with a Movie Camera -
Lutz Becker:
Curator talks: October -
Lutz Becker:
Curator talks: Storm Over Asia and Turksib -
Lutz Becker:
Curator talks: The End of St Petersburg -
Elena Sudakova:
Soviet Posters of the Silent Screen
Utopia LTD
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'Inside the Rainbow' Performance:
Directed by Irina Brown -
Professor John Milner:
Seminar: 'Re-Constructivism' -
Willem Jan Renders:
Seminar: 'After Lissitzky: Reconstructions at the Van Abbemuseum' -
Christina Lodder:
Seminar: 'Gustav Klucis: Transmitting Utopia' -
Aleksandr Shklyaruk:
Seminar: 'Klucis and the Materialisation of a Futurist Idea' -
Dr. Maria Tsantsanoglou:
Seminar: 'Tatlin's Legend'
Listen
Superwoman: ‘Work, Build and Don’t Whine'
Unexpected Eisenstein
Bolt
A Game in Hell. The Great War in Russia
Read
Valerian Zhitenev
(1902–1974)
Valerian Zhitenev was born in the Tambov province, but in 1912 his family moved to Siberia. In 1918 he started attending an art school in Irkutsk, and after graduating in 1925 he was sent to study at the Vkhutemas in Moscow under the guidance of N.N.Kupreyanov. From 1927 Zhitenev worked as a graphic designer for various magazines (Bezbojnik, Vokrug Sveta, Vsemirniy Sledopyit) and in 1937 he became art editor at the popular children’s magazinen Murzilka. At the same time he was teaching drawing and lithography in various art schools in Moscow.
During the Second World War he served as a war artist, making drawings and photographs at the front (as a member of the Grekov Studio of War Artists from 1943). He left an important visual account of the advance of the Soviet army in 1945, including images from occupied Berlin. After the war he continued teaching, working for magazines and publishers in Moscow, designing books, and producing illustrations for prominent publications such as Komsomolskaya Pravda. Until his retirement in 1970, he was a professor of graphic design at the Moscow Polygraphic Institute.
Zhitenev exhibited his works around the Soviet Union, and also participated in the International Exhibition held in Paris in 1938.
