Art and Production

About the author

Boris Arvatov (1896-1940) was a leading figure and a leading theorist in the post-revolutionary Soviet avant garde - a movement that is being urgently reassessed by present day cultural theorists and academics. He is the author of the classic, Art and Production (Pluto, 2017).

 John Roberts is Professor of Art and Aesthetics at the University of Wolverhampton. He is the author of a number of books, including The Intangibilities of Form (Verso, 2007), Philosophising the Everyday (Pluto, 2006) and Revolutionary Time and the Avant-Garde (Verso, 2016). He edited the English translation of Boris Arvatov's classic Art and Production (Pluto, 2017).
Alexei Penzin, is Reader in the School of Art at the University of Wolverhampton and Research Associate at the Institute of Philosophy in Moscow. He is a member of interdisciplinary collective Chto Delat. He is the author of Against the Continuum (Bloomsbury, 2017) and co-editor of Art and Production (Pluto, 2017).

Summary

A classic of Russian avant-garde writing, focusing on the Productivist art movement of the 1920s

Product details

• Authors: Boris Arvatov, Arvatov Boris, Arvatov Boris
• Assisted by: Alexai Penzin (Editor), Alexei Penzin (Editor), Penzin Alexei (Editor), John Roberts (Editor), Shushan Avagyan (Translation), Avagyan Shushan (Translation)
• Publisher: Pluto
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.08.2017
• EAN: 9780745399454
• ISBN: 978-0-7453-9945-4
• No. of pages: 160
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Cultural Studies, Russia, Theory of art, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, ART / History / General, ART / Criticism & Theory, ART / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945), SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, ART / Sculpture & Installation, ART / History / Contemporary (1945-), History of Art, Early 20th century c 1900 to c 1950, Far-left political ideologies and movements, Constructivism, USSR, Soviet Union, Cultural and media studies, Non-graphic and electronic art forms