09 november – 07 december
Soviet modernism is a unique phenomenon in the culture of the 20th century, the last great European style that demonstrated the unity of formal-stylistic expression and ideological content, expressed by means of monumental-decorative synthesis. The embodiment of the grandiose plans of the Land of Soviets attracted the best creative forces of its time, but did not represent a consistent evolutionary process due to the change of the socio-cultural, and therefore, aesthetic paradigm. If the first stage of the formation of the modernist tradition of the 1920-1930s was provoked by the Great October Socialist Revolution, then the second stage of the development of modernism occurred in the 1960-1970s, overcoming the 1940-1950s temporary privileged position of the classicist-oriented tradition
As part of the course, we will go through the fascinating and complex process of the development of modernism in the USSR, which, through the efforts of many researchers around the world, is gradually beginning to take its own worthy place in the history of world culture.
