{"id":26885,"title":"Osip Beskin, \"The Place of Art in the Soviet Union\"","dimensions":"23.5 x 15.5 cm","date_begin":"1936-01-01","material":"","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":26,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":1,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Collection MHKA, Antwerp","cached_tag_list":"Monoculture Soviet artefacts Cold War Beskin","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"\u003cp\u003ePublished by the American Russian Institute for Cultural Relations\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","date_end":null,"reference":"","stream_count_app":25,"permalink":"osip-beskin-the-place-of-art-in-the-soviet-union","description_ca":"","short_description_ca":"","description_it":"","short_description_it":"","cached_primary_asset_url":"http://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/061/046/medium_500/Image050024.jpg?1598518685","cached_actor_names":"","hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":"","short_description_uk":"","description_tr":null,"short_description_tr":null,"mhka_works":true,"category":{"en":"Book","nl":"Boek","fr":"Livre"},"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/061/046/large/Image050024.jpg?1598518685","poster_credits":"scan: (c) M HKA, Published by the American Russian Institute for Cultural Relations","translations":[{"locale":"en","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe American Russian Institute for Cultural Relations with the Soviet Union, previously known as the American Society for Cultural Relations with the Soviet Union was established in 1926 and was identified as a \u0026#39;subversive\u0026#39; organisation by the US government in 1947. The foreword to this 1936 brochure was written by Christian Brinton, American art critic, curator and proponent of \u0026ldquo;national\u0026rdquo; modernisms. Rejecting pure experimentation with forms and medium in art that broke with previous tradition, he valued Russian art for its non-Western, \u0026ldquo;unspoiled aesthetic patrimony\u0026rdquo;. In the foreword, he describes Soviet art as Socialist Humanism. The main author of the brochure, Osip Beskin, was a Soviet art critic and a notorious opponent of \u0026ldquo;formalist\u0026rdquo; experiments in art. However, unlike his writings in Russian, this propaganda piece is idealistic in its tone rather than belligerent. Describing the art system in the USSR, he refers to the central idea of Soviet art \u0026ndash; \u0026ldquo;Art belongs to the people. It must be understood and loved by them. It must be rooted in and grow with their feelings, thoughts, and desires. It must arouse and develop the artists in them\u0026rdquo; (Lenin). Thus, the dominant factor determining the quality of art is its integration with society. When it comes to the question of creative freedom, Beskin states that artists are always \u0026ldquo;subjectively free and objectively not free\u0026rdquo;. And since the objective non-freedom of the artist is related to the issue of class, the ultimate goal (in which artists should take active part) is the creation of a classless society, and \u0026ldquo;a new type of human being who will be free from economic pressure and from the distinction between mental and physical labour \u0026ndash; the integrated human being of the future\u0026rdquo;.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"nl","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eHet American Russian Institute for Cultural Relations with the Soviet Union, voorheen bekend als de American Society for Cultural Relations with the Soviet Union, werd opgericht in 1926. In 1947 werd het door de Amerikaanse regering opgenomen in de lijst van \u0026#39;subversieve organisaties\u0026#39;. Het voorwoord van deze brochure uit 1936 werd geschreven door Christian Brinton, Amerikaans kunstcriticus, curator en voorstander van \u0026#39;nationale\u0026#39; modernismen. Brinton verwierp pure vorm- en mediumexperimenten in de kunst die braken met voorgaande tradities en waardeerde de Russische kunst vanwege het niet-westerse, \u0026#39;ongerepte esthetische erfgoed\u0026#39;. In het voorwoord beschrijft hij Sovjetkunst als socialistisch humanisme. De belangrijkste auteur van de brochure, Osip Beskin, was een Sovjet-kunstcriticus en net als Brinton een tegenstander van \u0026#39;formalistische\u0026#39; experimenten in de kunst. In tegenstelling tot Beskins geschriften in het Russisch, is dit propagandastuk eerder idealistisch dan strijdlustig van toon. Hij beschrijft het kunstsysteem in de USSR en verwijst naar het centrale idee van de Sovjetkunst:\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026ldquo;Kunst behoort het volk toe. (...) Ze moet door [de werkende massa\u0026#39;s] begrepen en bemind worden. Ze moet hen verenigen in hun gevoelens, gedachten en aspiraties en hen verheffen. Ze moet de kunstenaar in hen opwekken en ontwikkelen (Lenin).\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eWat doorslaggevend is bij het bepalen van de kwaliteit van kunst is dus haar integratie in de samenleving. Wanneer hij de creatieve vrijheid bespreekt, stelt Beskin dat kunstenaars altijd \u0026ldquo;subjectief vrij en objectief niet vrij\u0026rdquo; zijn. En aangezien de objectieve niet-vrijheid van de kunstenaar gerelateerd is aan de klassenkwestie, is het uiteindelijke doel (waar kunstenaars actief aan moeten meewerken) de creatie van een klasseloze samenleving en \u0026ldquo;een nieuw type mens die vrij zal zijn van economische druk en van het onderscheid tussen mentale en fysieke arbeid \u0026ndash; de ge\u0026iuml;ntegreerde mens van de toekomst.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"fr","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"ru","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"de","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"es","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"el","short_description":"","description":""}],"actors":[]}