Art in Revolution - ACE032.6

Engineering projects. Town planning designs, with quotation over about aspirations for the future. Film, photographs and model of communal housing in Moscow designed by Moisei Ginsburg and Ignatii Milinis (1928); photographs of their Modernist Narkomfin building (1930). Photographs of Konstantin Melnikov’s own house under construction (1927), and model of the finished building. Photographs of the Moscow Planetarium by Mikhail Barsch and Mikhail Sinyavsky. More street scenes from Man with a Movie Camera. Plans for "Sky Hooks" ("Wolkenbügel"), horizontal skyscrapers by Lissitzky, Mart Stam and Emil Roth (1923-1925). Designs by Ivan Leonidov for a "Lenin Institute of Bibliographical Sciences"; model of the unrealised building. Other designs (not built) for a factory and a "house of heavy industry". Factory chimneys, factory workers, designs for buildings, posters, trains, coal trucks, quarries, etc. Commentary says that inauguration of Stalin’s Five-Year Plan in 1928 brought an end to experiment in Soviet arts. The completion of the Dnieper hydro-electric project (1932); agricultural and industrial scenes (extracts from Donbas Symphony / Entuziazm: simfoniia Donbassa, 1930). Factory whistles. The End.