Title & Author:

Tatlin : new art for a new world / edited by the Museum Tinguely, Basel ; with contributions by Simon Baier [and others] ; [exhibition curator, Gian Casper Bott.

Publication:

Ostfildern : Hatje Cantz, ©2012.

Description:

239 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm

Notes:
Published to accompany the exhibition of the same name held at Museum Tinguely, Basel, June 6-Oct. 14, 2012.
Includes bibliographical references.
Tatlin as sun-snarer : the invention of counter-relief, tower revolution, flying sculpture / Gian Casper Bott -- Vladimir Tatlin, the left artists, and the October Revolution / David Walsh -- Painting -- Professional painting : Tatlin's counter-reliefs / Simon Baier -- Counter-reliefs -- Faktura: a key term of the Russian avant garde : Tatlin's material culture / Anna Szech -- Vladimir Tatlin's reliefs / Dmitrii Dimakov -- Monument to the Third International -- "Let us place the eye under the control of touch" : replicas and replicators of Vladimir Tatlin's Monument to the Third International: the great adventure of Pontus Hulten / Nathalie Leleu -- Letatlin -- Letatlin -- a utopian work? / Roland Wetzel -- Theater -- "I am an artist! ... I deliver ideas" : Tatlin and the theater / Maria Lipatova -- The theater as the stage of the New World : Tatlin between Richard Wagner and Velimir Khlebnikov / Yevgraf Kipatop -- Tatlin: a legend of the twentieth-century avant-garde / Jürgen Harten -- Biography : Vladimir Yevgrafovich Tatlin, 1885-1953.
Text in English and Russian.

Summary:

"Painter, architect, engineer, set designer, father to the Russian Constructivist movement, inventor of the 'counter-relief' and author of one of modernism's greatest icons, the 'Monument to the Third International, ' Vladimir Tatlin blazed an incredible trail of innovation through the glory years of the Soviet avant-garde. Nevertheless, 'Not the old, not the new, but the necessary' was his motto; having spent his early years as an icon painter, Tatlin eschewed the modernist disavowal of heritage in favor of a research-based attitude to materials and genres. His 'counter-relief' sculptures, made of wood, cardboard, metal and wire, were foundational works for Rodchenko and the Constructivists, and their influence can be seen today in the works of creators as various as Zaha Hadid and Richard Tuttle. But it is his 'Monument to the Third International, ' often called simply 'Tatlin's Tower, ' that has grasped the imaginations of artists, architects and writers down the generations ... Published for a landmark exhibition at the Museum Tinguely in Basel, it examines every facet of his output, from his early Cubist-influenced paintings to the counter-reliefs, the 'Tower, ' prints, set and costume designs and aeronautic researches, and constitutes an essential portrait of the ambitions of Soviet modernism."--Publisher's description.

ISBN:

9783775733632 (English trade ed. ; hardcover with dust jkt.)
3775733639 (English trade ed. ; hardcover with dust jkt.)
9783952399019 (English museum ed. ; hardcover)
3952399019 (English museum ed. ; hardcover)

Subject:

Tatlin, Vladimir Evgrafovich, 1885-1953 Exhibitions.
Tatlin, Vladimir Evgrafovich.
Tatlin, Vladimir Evgrafovich, 1885-1953
Art and Design.

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogs.
exhibition catalogs.
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Tatlin, Vladimir Evgrafovich, 1885-1953.
Baier, Simon.
Museum Jean Tinguely Basel.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 279785
Call No.: BIB 216007
Status: Available