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A Study on the revolution of everyday life in LEF(Left Front of the Arts)
The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art
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As the epitome of historical avant-garde, the Russian avant-garde was art movement which had pushed its avant-garde nature and political nature through fiercely. The revolution of existing society overset had given the Russian avant-gardists who wanted to change their life the good chance of realizing their project. The Russian avant-garde had worked most actively in the early 1920s. At that time, more political left-wing avant-garde, i.e. Futurist and left-wing proletcult, not only united but also published the journal 『LEF(Left Front of the Art)』. Productivist of LEF tried to advance the transference of futural communism through the revolution of everyday life. Arvatov insisted that labour process should be more creative and more artistic by the amalgamation between constructive experiment and proletarian labour. As for him, productive art meant that art did not submit to dull labour but penetrate into labour process-production. This is the art which organized proletarian living creatively relating to proletarian life directly. Chuzhak insisted that artist should create the worthful things like laborer made the valuable things. As for him, it meant that productive art was the utilitarian art which could function directly as a model of labour and life. Tret’iakov insisted that ‘Homo Futurus’ who was a communism human being of constructing creative world should be formed through the creation of new world sense. According to him, Futurism Art had the task which not only reformed the everyday life fixed by the order of things but also produced the creative reality of transferring to communism. In order to do that, artist had to deliver the poetic power of constructing new reality to the life directly through political fulfillment. Russian avant-garde thought that the future which common people, i.e. everybody, could live an artistic life was available through their art work.
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