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[ART IN WORKERS’ CLUB] Iskusstvo v rabochem klube [i.e. Art in Workers’ Club]

Moscow: Vserossiisky proletkul’t, 1924. Item #368

139, [5] pp. 26x17,5 cm. In original constructivist wrappers. Very good. Restoration of the spine, a few tears of the front wrapper and a small corner of the t.p., rear wrapper not original, a few pencil marks on the front wrapper, t.p. and in the text, small tears of the upper margin on a couple of pages. Partly uncut.
First and only edition. One of 5000 copies. Very rare.

One of the primary reasons for workers’ clubs existence was the bringing the art to the masses, and the stimulation the masses for creating the art itself. This book describes how all this could be achieved. As Proletkult ideologist Gastev stated there’s a certain estrangement between proletariat and the culture. The problem could be resolved by bringing art closer to the worker and lifting up the worker to the art as well. The elitist stereotype of the art would be gone if the worker himself participate in the creation of art, drawing, acting in plays and writing.
For that purpose the creation of ‘United studio of Art’ is advised. In those studios the workers should get to understand that art is ‘the building of new life itself’, ‘creating the new material good or new forms of everyday life’.
Interesting to note that physical culture and sport follow acting, drawing and writing in the list of cultural activities.
The new theatrical form is also described in the publication - the living newspaper, which was the form of play on the current political and social events of the day. At the end two scripts are provided as the examples, both in the form of political trials, including the trail on fascism: ’’Political trial is one of the most captivating and easy to understand form of mass work. Everything can be shaped in trial form - from trivial things to international proletarian movement”.
The edition was included in the List of books subject to exclu139, [5] pp. 26x17,5 cm. In original constructivist wrappers. Very good. Restoration of the spine, a few tears of the front wrapper and a small corner of the t.p., rear wrapper not original, a few pencil marks on the front wrapper, t.p. and in the text, small tears of the upper margin on a couple of pages. Partly uncut.
First and only edition. One of 5000 copies. Very rare.
One of the primary reasons for workers’ clubs existence was the bringing the art to the masses, and the stimulation the masses for creating the art itself. This book describes how all this could be achieved. As Proletkult ideologist Gastev stated there’s a certain estrangement between proletariat and the culture. The problem could be resolved by bringing art closer to the worker and lifting up the worker to the art as well. The elitist stereotype of the art would be gone if the worker himself participate in the creation of art, drawing, acting in plays and writing.
For that purpose the creation of ‘United studio of Art’ is advised. In those studios the workers should get to understand that art is ‘the building of new life itself’, ‘creating the new material good or new forms of everyday life’.
Interesting to note that physical culture and sport follow acting, drawing and writing in the list of cultural activities.
The new theatrical form is also described in the publication - the living newspaper, which was the form of play on the current political and social events of the day. At the end two scripts are provided as the examples, both in the form of political trials, including the trail on fascism: ’’Political trial is one of the most captivating and easy to understand form of mass work. Everything can be shaped in trial form - from trivial things to international proletarian movement”.
The edition was included in the List of books subject to exclusion from libraries and the book trade (Moscow, 1960).

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