Aleksei Gan

The cover of Konstruktivizm by Aleksei Gan, 1922.

Aleksei Gan (c. 1889/93/95 – c. 1940/42) was a Russian anarchist avant-garde artist, art theorist and graphic designer. Gan was a key figure in the development of Constructivism after the Russian Revolution.[1]

Life

Gan was the first to write on art in the anarchist newspaper Anarkhiia (Anarchy) when it introduced an art section in early 1918.[2] In March 1921, Gan was one of the seven artists, including Alexander Rodchenko and his wife Varvara Stepanova, who announced themselves as the first Working Group of Constructivists.[3] The group rejected fine art in favour of graphic design, photography, posters, and political propaganda.[4] Gan collaborated with Aleksandr Rodchenko and Varvara Stepanova on a Constructivist manifesto in 1922,[5] and published his own pamphlet Konstruktivism in the same year.[6] He also founded the first Soviet film journal, Kino-Fot (or Kinofot), in 1922.[7]

In 1928 he was one of the founders of the October Group.[8] Gan is believed to have died in a Russian labour camp.

Selected works

See also

References

  1. ↑ Jeremy Howard, Aleksei Gan, Grove Art Online.
  2. ↑ Nina Gourianova, The Aesthetics of Anarchy : Art and Ideology in the Early Russian Avant-Garde
  3. ↑ Maria Gough (2005). The Artist as Producer: Russian Constructivism in Revolution. University of California Press. p. 2. ISBN 978-0-520-22618-0.
  4. ↑ "Rodchenko, Alexander." by Yvonne Jones in The Oxford Companion to Western Art. Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press. Accessed 10 May 2013.
  5. ↑ 'Who We Are: Manifesto of the Constructivist Group', in Alexander N. Lavrentiev, ed., Alexandr Rodchenko: Experiments of the Future, 2005, pp.143-45
  6. ↑ Willem G. Weststeijn (2013). "Aleksei Gan's Constructivism and its aftermath". In Ralf Grüttemeier; Klaus Beekman;. Neue Sachlichkeit and Avant-Garde. Rodopi. pp. 373–. ISBN 94-012-0909-X.
  7. ↑ Petrič, Vlada. (1993) Constructivism in Film: The Man With the Movie Camera : A Cinematic Analysis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 13. ISBN 0521443873
  8. ↑ "CONSTRUCTIVISM / Aleksei Gan". Tenov Books. EDITORIAL TENOV. Retrieved 4 October 2015.

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