Experiment No. 18

Experiment 18, co-curated by Musya Glants, Marie Lampard, and Wendy Salmond, is devoted to Russian sculpture, especially of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Publication is scheduled for October, 2012.  The preliminary List of Contents for is as follows:

I.  ESSAYS

• Margaret Samu.  The Nude in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Russian Sculpture
• Janet Kennedy.  Monument without Honor: Trubetskoi’s Alexander III and Its Critics
• Jesco Oser. “Rodnik”: A Source of Inspiration
• Ekaterina Khmelnitskaia.  The Creative Legacy of Sculptor Konstantin Rausch von Traubenberg
• Christina Lodder.  Sculpture at “0.10”
• John E. Bowlt.  Icarian Dreams: Iosif Chaikov and the Jewish Legacy
• Marie Turbow Lampard.  Larger Than Life: Soviet Monumental Sculpture in the Soviet Period
• Syrago Tsiara. Vera Mukhina (1889–1953).  From Avant-garde to Socialist Realism
• Musya Glants. The Beseecher: Vadim Sidur (1924-1986) and his Art
• Stephen Woodburn. Tsereteli’s Strategic Monuments: Gift Sculptures to the United States in the Eras of Détente, Perestroika, and Anti-Terrorism, 1979-2006

II.  DOCUMENTS

• Theodore Child. “Modern Russian Art” (1889)
• Vladiimir Stasov. “Our Sculpture” (1882-83)
• Sergei Makovskii. “A Monument to Glinka” (1906).
• Sergei Makovskii.  Extracts from Contemporary Sculpture (1912)
• Boris Ternovets, “The Primacy of Moscow” (1922)
• Soviet of People’s Commissars of the RSFSR. Decree on Monuments of the Republic, 12 April 1918
• List of individuals to whom it is proposed to erect monuments in Moscow and other cities of the RSFSR.  Submitted to the Sovnarkom by the Visual Arts Division of the Commissariat of Popular Enlightenment (1918)
• Boris Korolev. Notes for a lecture on Lenin’s Plan for Monumental Propaganda (1918)
• Boris Korolev. Letter to Liudmila Koroleva on Cubism and sculpture (1919)
• “On Architectural and Sculptural Forms.” Minutes of the Commission for Resolving Issues of Sculptural-Architectural Synthesis (Sinskulptarkh) (August 1919)
• Resolution of the Second Congress of Soviets of the USSR of 26 January 1924. “On Erecting Monuments to Vladimir Ilich Lenin”
• Pavel Filonov. “Analysis of the Program of the Department of Sculpture at the Academy of Arts. A lecture” (1924-26)
• Iakov Tugendkhold. “Our Sculpture” (1926)
• Frida Roginskaia. “Visual Art on the Tenth Anniversary of October” (1928)
• Conclusion by the board of Vkhutemas on the state of teaching in the departments (1926).
• Iosif Chaikov. Program of the Sculpture Department of Vkhutein (1927)
• Specialized Goal of the Sculpture Department of Vkhutein (1929)
• Boris Ternovets. “The Art of Sculptor Ivan Shadr” (1934)
• Anatolii Bakushinskii. “On Material in Sculpture” (1935)
• Vladimir Domogatskii. “Impressionism” (1936)
• Vera Mukhina. Autobiographical Statement (1944)
• Boris Ternovets. “Mukhina”(1939)
• Sergei Merkurov. Notes of a Sculptor (1953)
• Mikhail Ilin. “On the Importance of Site in Monumental Sculpture”