#Osip Brik

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Norderney

Zwei am Strand , 1923. Sitzen da, als ob sie Flussgötter werden wollten, anders als die bisherigen Flussgötter. Das ist das Jahr, in dem Shklovskys Zoo oder Briefe, nicht über die Liebe entsteht, ein Buch, das auch als ein seltsames Spiegelvorbild zu Benjamins Spanischer Reise Moskauer Tagebuch lesbar ist.

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Osip Brik (writer), 1924 - by Alexander Rodchenko (1891 - 1956), Russian

[russkayaliteratura]

Osip Brik, unpublished illustration by Alexander Rodchenko for the cover of the magazine LEF, 1924. Gouache on gelatin-silver print, 23.6 x 18 cm.

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camacio70: Debbie Harry; i12bent: Osip Brik, Jan. 16, 1888 – 1945: Russian avant garde writer and literary critic; celebnudes4u: Sissy Spacek

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Alexander Rodchenko - Caricature Showing Osip Brik, variant of a cover for LEF Magazine 1924 - Gelatin-silver print - 24.2 x 17.9 cm - Private collection - © Rodchenko’s Archive - 2011, ProLitteris, Zurich

[driftwork]

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As my avatar said in his pure critique of the psychological novel, (it was the SF novel I read yesterday which reminded me what a terrible concept the hero is) ….

- Heroism is a literary device that makes possible the attribution to a single person (The hero or heroine) a sum of deeds (exploits) that in reality have been produced by the labours of an entire series of people… Osip Brik.

[facingthecurrent-blog]

Our cultural creative work is now entirely purpose-oriented. We do not think up for ourselves any cultural work that does not pursue some definitive practical aim. The concepts of ‘pure science’, 'pure art’, and ‘self-valuable truths and beauties’ are foreign to us. We are practicians, - and in this lies the distinguishing feature of our cultural consciousness.

Osip Brik (1888-1945), ‘From Picture to Calico-Print’. Originally published in LEF, no. 6, Moscow, 1924. 

Written in constructivist-productivist Russian times, almost precisely a full century ago. Did we just go a clean 180, with the current general critique on (Dutch) neoliberal policy instrumentalising the arts into something ‘useful’? 

[4eternal-life]

Vladimir Mayakovsky and  Osip Brik

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[barcarole]

Osip Brik and Vladimir Mayakovsky.

[doopsi]

Portrait of Osip Brik by Alexander Rodchenko

[the-beattokeep]

"Aleksandr Rodchenko's photographs of three friends were printed on posters and journals across Russia, and their faces dominated the cultural scene: the poet Vladimir Mayakovsky, critic Osip Brik, and his wife, bon vivant Lili Brik were the public faces of the Russian avant-garde arts movement for the better part of three decades. Obviously, the relationship between a work of art and the social and political situation within which it is produced is invariably complex and difficult to reduce to a simple cause and effect. But art and politics aside, Rodchenko’s photographs of Mayakovsky and the Briks inadvertently document a love triangle between three remarkable figures—a ménage à trois writ large on the era’s cultural landscape and reflected all around us today." Big Faces: The Cool Kids of the Russian Avant Garde

[cuorerivelatore]

Living at the heart of an artistic bohemia and receiving the intelligentsia in the salon of his delectable wife, Osip Brik, true to his promise, calmly accepted his wife's infidelities from the start. In fact, upon hearing his wife confess that she had gone to bed with the famous young poet Vladimir Mayakovsky, Brik exclaimed "How could you refuse anything to that man?"

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lili and osya

[photo-secession]

Alexander Rodchenko - Osip Brik

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Alexander Rodchenko Osip Brik on a 1924 cover for LEF Magazine