Plotinus (204/5-270), Anonymous, white marble, Ostiense Museum, Ostia Antica, Rome
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Art and social life: the Russian Revolution and the creative power of idealism 12
Vladimir Tatlin. Maquette of Tower or Monument to the Third International, 1919-1920
We are the wonder makers.
The sunbeams we shall tie
in radiant brooms, and sweep
the clouds from the sky
with electricity.
We shall make honey-sweet the rivers of the world.
The streets of earth we’ll pave with radiant stars…
Vladimir Mayakovsky, Mystery-Bouffe, 1918
‘…the spiral is the line of movement of mankind liberated. The spiral is the ideal expression of liberation. With its heel set against the ground, it escapes from the ground and becomes a sign of the renunciation of all animal, earthly and low ambitions.’
Nikolai Punin, 1920
Vladimir Tatlin. Letatlin, 1930-1933
Art and social life: the Russian Revolution and the creative power of idealism 9
Natan Altman, Design for Alexander Column celebrating the Red Army’s first anniversary, Petrograd, 1919
Natan Altman. Decoration for the Winter Palace, 1918. Collage and watercolour, Russian Museum, Leningrad
Natan Altman, The Alexander Column Lit Up at Night, Crayons and chalk on paper, The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
Top: The Avant-Garde in Russia, 1910-1930: New Perspectives, Eds., Stephanie Barron and Maurice Tuchman, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1980
Middle: The Shock of the New: Art and the Century of Change, Robert Hughes, British Broadcasting Corporation, London, 1980
Bottom: Art of the October Revolution, Compiler, Mikhail Guerman, Trans., W.Freeman, D.Saunders, C.Binns, Aurora Art Publishers, Leningrad, 1986
materialism, mysticism and art 
