Lenin’s Image

Boris Groys

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Art & Language, Portrait of V. I. Lenin with Cap, in the Style of Jackson Pollock III, 1980. Copyright: Tate, London, 2021. 

Issue #120
September 2021










Notes
1

Collected Works of Velimir Khlebnikov, vol. 3, Selected Poems, trans. Paul Schmidt, ed. Ronald Vroon (Harvard University Press, 1997), 169 .

2

Alexandre Kojève, “Tyranny and Wisdom,” in Leo Strauss, On Tyranny: Revised and Expanded Edition, Including the Strauss-Kojève Correspondence, ed. Victor Gourevitch and Michael S. Roth (University of Chicago Press, 2000), 140–41.

3

Khlebnikov, “Lightland.”

4

Oswald Spengler, Man and Technics: A Contribution to a Philosophy of Life, trans. Charles Francis Atkinson (1931; Greenwood Press, 1976), 42ff.

5

Friedrich Nietzsche, “Thus Spoke Zarathustra” (1883–84), in Nietzsche and the Death of God: Selected Writings, trans. Peter Fritzsche (Waveland Press, 2007), 116.

6

Kazimir Malevich, “Lenin (iz knigi ‘O bespredmetnosti’)” (1924), in Kazimir Malevich, Sobranie sochinenii, vol. 2, Stat’i i teoreticheskie sochineniia, opublikovannye v Germanii, Pol’she i na Ukraine. 1924–1930, ed. G. L. Demosfenova and A. S. Shatskikh (Gileia, 1998), 27.

7

Kazimir Malevich, “Bog ne skinut. Iskusstvo, tserkov’, fabrika” (1920), in Kazimir Malevich, Sobranie sochinenii, vol. 1, Stat’i, manifesty, teoreticheskie sochineniia i drugie raboty, 1913–1929, ed. A. S. Shatskikh and A. D. Sarab’ianov (Gileia, 1995), 236–65.

8

Malevich, “Lenin,” 28.

9

Malevich, “Lenin,” 29.

10

Malevich, “Lenin,” 26.

11

Alexander Rodchenko, “Against the Synthetic Portrait, for the Snapshot,” in Russian Art of the Avant-Garde: Theory and Criticism, 1902–1934, ed. and trans. John E. Bowlt (Viking Press, 1976), 252. The quotation has been reformatted into a single paragraph due to space considerations.

12

Siegried Kracauer, “Photography,” in Siegfried Kracauer, The Mass Ornament: Weimar Essays, trans. and ed. Thomas Y. Levin (Harvard University Press, 1995), 48–49.

13

Vladimir Mayakovsky, “Don’t Merchandise Lenin!” in Coiled Verbal Spring: Devices of Lenin’s Language, ed. Sezgin Boynik, trans. Thomas Campbell and Mikko Viljanen (Rab-Rab Press, 2018), 147–48.

14

“Auto-Icon,” Bentham Project, University College London website .

15

“Extract from Bentham’s Will,” Bentham Project .

16

Richard Wagner, “The Art-Work of the Future,” in Richard Wagner’s Prose Works, vol. 1, The Art-Work of the Future, trans. William Ashton Ellis (Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., 1892), 94.

17

Charles Harrison, “On ‘A Portrait of V. I. Lenin in the Style of Jackson Pollock,’” in Charles Harrison, Essays on Art & Language (MIT Press, 1991), 135.







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