Creativity, dialogue, and place: Vitebsk, the early Bakhtin and the origins of the Russian avant-garde

White, Elizabeth Jayne; Peters, Michael A.

Creativity, dialogue, and place: Vitebsk, the early Bakhtin and the origins of the Russian avant-garde

dc.contributor.author	White, Elizabeth Jayne
dc.contributor.author	Peters, Michael A.
dc.coverage.spatial	Conference held at Hamilton, New Zealand
dc.date.accessioned	2014-07-21T21:42:12Z
dc.date.available	2014-01-15
dc.date.available	2014-07-21T21:42:12Z
dc.date.issued	2014
dc.description.abstract	This paper attempts to avoid both the ‘Bakhtinology’ that has become the basis of the ‘Bakhtin industry’ in Russia and the Americanization of his work as a “a sort of New Left celebrator of popular culture” (McLemee, 1997) to argue for a radical contextual understanding a set of relationships among Bakhtin, Malevich, Chagall and others. The appreciation of a Bakhtinian notion of the inherently creative use of language is used as a basis for the idea of the creative university as the ‘dialogical university’. The paper begins by exploring the connections between Bakhtin, Malevich and Chagall to explore the ontological sociality of artistic phenomena. A small town called Vitebsk in Belorussia experienced a flowering of creativity and artistic energy that led to significant modernist experimentation in the years 1917-1922 contribution to the birth of the Russian avant-garde. Marc Chagall, returning from the October Revolution took up the position of art commissioner and developed an academy of art that became the laboratory for Russian modernism. Chagall’s Academy, Bahktin’s Circle, Malevich’s experiments, artistic group UNOVIS, all in fierce dialogue with one another made the town of Vitebsk into an artistic crucible in the early twentieth century transforming creative energies of Russian drama, music, theatre, art, and philosophy in a distinctive contribution to modernism and also to a social understanding of creativity itself.
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dc.identifier.citation	White, E. J., & Peters, M. A. (2014). Creativity, dialogue, and place: Vitebsk, the early Bakhtin and the origins of the Russian avant-garde. Presented at the The 4th International Interdisciplinary Conference on Perspectives and Limits of Dialogism in Mikhail Bakhtin, Conference held at Hamilton, New Zealand.	en
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10289/8686
dc.relation.uri	http://mikhailbakhtin4.blogspot.co.nz/
dc.rights	This is the Authors' accepted version. Copyright 2014 The Authors.
dc.source	The 4th International Interdisciplinary Conference on Perspectives and Limits of Dialogism in Mikhail Bakhtin
dc.title	Creativity, dialogue, and place: Vitebsk, the early Bakhtin and the origins of the Russian avant-garde
dc.type	Conference Contribution
pubs.elements-id	81881
pubs.finish-date	2014-01-17
pubs.organisational-group	/Waikato
pubs.organisational-group	/Waikato/FEDU
pubs.organisational-group	/Waikato/FEDU/Professional Studies in Education
pubs.organisational-group	/Waikato/FEDU/Wilf Malcolm Institute of Educational Research
pubs.start-date	2014-01-15