Study on the Constructivist Utopia of Vsevolod Meyerhold

DOI

10.2991/icassee-18.2018.139How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Vsevolod Meyerhold; constructivism; Biomechanics; New Man producing; Utopia; art creating life; mass spectacles; Proletarian Culture

Abstract

Meyerhold was always fascinated by the concepts of art changing and creating life. He was deeply concerned by the Russians’ headfast unwillingness to obey the slow course of evolution. The director’s experiments in establishing the performance as a mass meeting and his concept of monumental revolutionary propaganda, as they had been manifested in The RSFSR-1 Theatre, proved to be successful and convincing. Nevertheless, the Moscow Soviet closed the theater. As Meyerhold trusted the party leaders he considered closing his theater a proof of the fact that the Soviet country was in no need of professional stage art. Thereby the constructivist idea of art which aims to design life in accordance with artistic laws shows the way out of the impasse. If the theater artist must be effectively involved in the process of creating a new harmonious human being, Meyerhold will develop the methods of actors’ training to bring him up. The method was found in Biomechanics.

Copyright

© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

Open Access

This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

Download article (PDF)

TY  - CONF
AU  - Vadim Shcherbakov
PY  - 2018/12
DA  - 2018/12
TI  - Study on the Constructivist Utopia of Vsevolod Meyerhold
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Art Studies: Science, Experience, Education (ICASSEE 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 695
EP  - 701
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/icassee-18.2018.139
DO  - 10.2991/icassee-18.2018.139
ID  - Shcherbakov2018/12
ER  -