Vladimir Markov and Russian primitivism : a charter for the avant-garde
- Submitting institution
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University of St Andrews
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 252027050
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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10.4324/9781315547909
- Publisher
- Ashgate
- ISBN
- 9781472439741
- Open access status
- -
- Month of publication
- February
- Year of publication
- 2016
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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2
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This is a 318-page study of a leading Russian avant-garde theoretician, painter, and photographer. It is a unique collaboration between three scholars, led by the individual, with a co-authored introduction, 3 scholarly essays, 120 pages of primary text translations by the individual and 72 illustrations. There was no previous English-language monograph dedicated to Markov and only a few, relatively slight, Russian and Latvian publications. It provides fully annotated translations into English of five of Markov’s most important texts (including the seminal Faktura and study of African art) for the first time. The individual also provides a lengthy single-authored contextual chapter.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- The monograph was conceived as a joint venture between the three scholars (UK, USA, Latvia) with the attributed individual as lead author and coordinator. Over a number of years it involved a series of head-to-head meetings lasting a week or so each time. These were assisted by the attributed individual’s Senior Research Fellowship for the study at the Henry Moore Institute (which also resulted in an exhibition there). That fellowship allowed the attributed individual the time to make the best possible translations and annotations. Furthermore, the collaboration allowed the editorial process to evolve gradually, for the selection and quality of reproductions to be given heightened priority, and for an appropriate academic publisher to be found. A great deal of effort and discussion went into the nature and relationship of individual contributions, as well as the jointly written introduction and annotations. The attributed individual was also the translator of the Latvian co-author’s two texts. Around the time of their joint writing the three contributors participated in a conference dedicated to Markov and his avant-garde successor G. Klucis at the Goethe Institute in Riga (co-organised by the Latvian co-author).
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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