Art History, Russian Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, Russia, Moscow, ninagallery@yandex.ru
The concept of heterotopia proposed in the 1960 s by the philosopher Michel Foucault suggests interpreting human life through the prism of a complex system of spatial relations (private and public, work and home, etc.). It is in such a set of connections and in sharp contradiction with the real “big city” that avant-garde Moscow appears, “counter–location” is a special alternative space, permeable and insulated. Moscow itself appears as a topos in the history and mythology of the avant-garde, the heroine of the works of Kandinsky, Lentulov, Labas, Sofronova and many other artists. Today, the preserved Moscow houses, bearing the memory of the avant-garde artists and their activities, allow us to feel the aura of the historical and cultural layers that our heroes so resolutely undertook to reform. The intensity of the artistic life of the city in the first decades of the twentieth century, the author, based on numerous testimonies of contemporaries, associates with the change in social conditions that allowed new creative trends to manifest themselves widely and variously in the public space.
heterotopia; Moscow; avant-garde; artists
Download textFor citing: Getashvili N.V. (2023). Heterotopia of avant-garde Moscow. Human being: Image and essence. Humanitarian aspects. Moscow: INION RAN. Vol. 1(53): Spatial semiotics: architecture, place and sign, pp. 139-149. DOI: 10.31249/chel/2023.01.08