Russian 372: Modern Russian Culture through Readings and Dramatic Production

Instructors: Stephen Blackwell and Casey Sams

Links worth checking out:

Northwestern U: Early 20th Century Russian Drama and Culture

El Lissitsky Site at the Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Russian Avant-Garde Stage Art: a course taught at Pomona college.  Website includes student projects and many images.

The Russian Avant-Garde Book Must see!!! --an incredible web site about bookmaking by Russian futurists and other avant-garde artists, 1910-1934.  From the 2002 NY Museum of Modern Art exhibit.  Lots to play with!!! Highly interactive!!! Fast!!!

Alexander II

Nechaev

Chernyshevsky

Wanderers (Peredvizhniki) http://www.dartmouth.edu/~russ15/russia_PI/Russian_art.html

Catechism of a Revolutionary http://www.uoregon.edu/~kimball/Nqv.catechism.thm.htm

Lenin, What Is To Be Done?

Solovyov

Sophia

NU Symbolism page--Vrubel http://max.mmlc.northwestern.edu/~mdenner/Drama/visualarts/Symbolism/symbolism7.html

Demon seated: http://www.rollins.edu/Foreign_Lang/Russian/vrub.jpg

World of Art http://www.russianavantgard.com/master_pages/Master%2003%20-%20World%20of%20Art.html

Avant Garde art: http://www.russianavantgard.com/index.htm

El-Lissitsky (Getty Museum: futurism, constructivism) http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/digitized_collections/lissitzky/index2.html

Avant-Garde drama resources (Northwestern) http://max.mmlc.northwestern.edu/%7Emdenner/Drama/resources.htm

Rodchenko exhibit at MoMA http://www.moma.org/exhibitions/1998/rodchenko/index.html

More avant-garde art examples (Rollins) http://www.rollins.edu/Foreign_Lang/Russian/frame4.html

Socialist Realism:

and art

Party Congress, Introduction

Zhdanov's speech

Some paper-writing guidelines

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