Estética y revolución: consideraciones políticas sobre las vanguardias ruso-soviéticas (1911-1936)

Abstract

When examining the relationship between art and the Russian Revolution, it has been commonly established a historical divide between early (pre-revolutionary) avant-garde practices and the propagandistic élan of the new State, which eventually liquidated Modern art in the USSR. This article qualifies this view by examining the development of the RussianSoviet avant-garde from the perspective of conflicting interpretations of "revolutionary art." It concludes that, together with the subordination of art to politics, there persisted in the USSR marginal practices which, highlighting the autonomy of aesthetics, assigned political effects to avant-garde criticism of artistic representation.