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VASILII KANDINSKY AND THE RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF ARTISTIC SCIENCES

VASILII KANDINSKY AND THE RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF ARTISTIC SCIENCES The formal establishment of the Russian Academy of Artistic Sciences (RAKhN) in,Moscow was on October 13, 1921, with Petr Kogan as Presi- dent, Vasilii Kandinsky as Vice-President, and Akim Kondrat'ev as Aca- demic Secretary [Ills. 16-19].' However, before that date a nucleus of future RAKhN members - rakhnovtsy - had been active within the planning com- mittee, i.e., the so-called Scientific-Artistic Commission under the auspices of Narkompros, and the titles "RAKhN" and "Academy" were used for several months before October 1921; in May 1925 RAKhN was renamed GAKhN (State Academy of Artistic Sciences). The mandate and goal of RAKhN was to examine the relationship between the creative arts and the positive sciences and to elaborate a rational theory of art history. With its interdisciplinary ap- proach, broad tolerance of conflicting points of view, numerous sections and subsections, and ambitious lecture and publication programs, RAKhN repre- sented a last stand in defense of the autonomy of culture and of cultural diver- sity within a society that was becoming increasingly monolithic and homoge- nous. During the more felicitous period of 1921-24, for example, RAKhN or- ganized no less than 99 exhibitions at home and abroad, 1,087 lectures, and "1,481 academic http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Experiment Brill

VASILII KANDINSKY AND THE RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF ARTISTIC SCIENCES

NICOLETTA, MISLER
Experiment , Volume 8 (1): 13 – Jan 1, 2002
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The formal establishment of the Russian Academy of Artistic Sciences (RAKhN) in,Moscow was on October 13, 1921, with Petr Kogan as Presi- dent, Vasilii Kandinsky as Vice-President, and Akim Kondrat'ev as Aca- demic Secretary [Ills. 16-19].' However, before that date a nucleus of future RAKhN members - rakhnovtsy - had been active within the planning com- mittee, i.e., the so-called Scientific-Artistic Commission under the auspices of Narkompros, and the titles "RAKhN" and "Academy" were used for several months before October 1921; in May 1925 RAKhN was renamed GAKhN (State Academy of Artistic Sciences). The mandate and goal of RAKhN was to examine the relationship between the creative arts and the positive sciences and to elaborate a rational theory of art history. With its interdisciplinary ap- proach, broad tolerance of conflicting points of view, numerous sections and subsections, and ambitious lecture and publication programs, RAKhN repre- sented a last stand in defense of the autonomy of culture and of cultural diver- sity within a society that was becoming increasingly monolithic and homoge- nous. During the more felicitous period of 1921-24, for example, RAKhN or- ganized no less than 99 exhibitions at home and abroad, 1,087 lectures, and "1,481 academic

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