Osip Brik

Photo by Alexander Rodchenko, 1924.
Born	January 16, 1888(1888-01-16) Moscow, Russia
Died	February 22, 1945(1945-02-22) (aged 57) Moscow, Soviet Union

Ne poputchitsa, 1923. Cover by Anton Lavinsky.

Osip Brik, unpublished illustration by Alexander Rodchenko for the cover of the magazine LEF, 1924. Gouache on gelatin-silver print, 23.6 x 18 cm.

Osip Maksimovich Brik (Осип Максимович Брик; 1888–1945) was a Russian avant-garde writer and literary critic.

Writings

Editor

• editor, with Nikolay Punin and Nathan Altman, Iskusstvo kommuny [Искусство коммуны], 19 issues, Petrograd: IZO Narkompros, Dec 1918-Apr 1919. (Russian)
• editor, with Vladimir Mayakovsky, LEF, 7 numbers, Moscow: Gosizdat, 1923-25. (Russian)

Books, brochures

• Ne poputchitsa [Не попутчица], Moscow, 1923. Cover by Anton Lavinsky. (Russian)

Selected articles

• "Demokratizatsiya iskusstva", Letopis 7-8, Petrograd, Jul-Aug 1917, pp 298-302. (Russian)
  • "The Democratization of Art", trans. Natasha Kurchanova, October 134 (Fall 2010), pp 75-79. (English)

• "Zvukovye povtory" [Звуковые повторы], in Sborniki po teorii poeticheskogo yazyka, II, Petersburg, 1917, pp 24-62. (Russian)

• "Moya pozitsiya", Novaia zhizn 193(197), 5[18] Dec 1917, p 4. (Russian)
  • "My Position", trans. Natasha Kurchanova, October 134 (Fall 2010), pp 79-80. (English)

• "Avtonomnoe iskusstvo", Vecherniaia zvezda, 22 Jan 1918, p 2. (Russian)
  • "Autonomous Art", trans. Natasha Kurchanova, October 134 (Fall 2010), p 80. (English)

• "Utselevshyy bog", Iskusstvo Kommuny, 29 Dec 1918, p 2. (Russian)
  • "A Preserved God", trans. Natasha Kurchanova, October 134 (Fall 2010), pp 80-82. (English)

• "V poryadke dnya", in Iskusstvo v proizvodstve, Moscow, 1921, pp 7-8. (Russian)
  • "Our Agenda", trans. Natasha Kurchanova, October 134 (Fall 2010), pp 82-83. (English)

• "Shkola konstruktivizma", Ogonek 20 (1923), p 6. (Russian)
  • "Our Agenda", trans. Natasha Kurchanova, October 134 (Fall 2010), p 84. (English)

• О. Б., "V proizvodstvo!" [В производство], LEF 1, Moscow/Petrograd: Gosizdat, Mar 1923, pp 105-108. (Russian)
  • "Into Production!", trans. Richard Sherwood, Screen 12:4 (Winter 1971-72), pp 37-38; repr. in The Tradition of Constructivism, ed. Stephen Bann, New York: Viking Press, 1974, pp 83-85. (English)

• "T.n. 'formalnyj metod'" [Т.н. 'формальный метод'], LEF 1, Moscow/Petrograd: Gosizdat, Mar 1923, pp 213-215. (Russian)
  • "The So-called 'Formal Method'", trans. Richard Sherwood, Screen 12:4 (Winter 1971-72), pp 42-44; repr. in Art in Theory, 1900-1990: An Anthology of Changing Ideas, eds. Charles Harrison and Paul Wood, Blackwell, 1992, pp 323-324. (English)

• "Proz-rabota" [Проз-работа], Lef 4 (1924), p 59. (Russian)
  • "Production Work", trans. Natasha Kurchanova, October 134 (Fall 2010), pp 84-85. (English)

• "Fotomontazh", Zaria Vostoka 683, 21 Sep 1924, p 4. (Russian)
  • "Photomontage", trans. Natasha Kurchanova, October 134 (Fall 2010), pp 85-87. (English)

• "Razval Vkhutemasa. Dokladnaya zapiska o polozhenii vysshikh khudozhestvenno-tekhnicheskikh masterskikh" [Развал ВХУТЕМАСА: Докладная записка о положении Высших Художественно-Технических Мастерских], Lef 4 (1924), pp 27-28. (Russian)
  • "The Breakdown of VKhUTEMAS: Report on the Condition of the Higher Artistic-Technical Workshops", trans. Natasha Kurchanova, October 134 (Fall 2010), pp 87-89. (English)

• "Od kartiny k sitsu" [От картины к ситцу], LEF 2:2, Moscow, 1924, pp 27-34. (Russian)
  • "From Pictures to Textile Prints", in Russian Art of the Avant-Garde: Theory and Criticism, 1902-1934, ed. John E. Bowlt, New York: Viking Press, 1976, pp 244-249. (English)
  • "From Picture to Calico-Print", trans. Richard Sherwood, Screen 12:4 (Winter 1971-72), pp 48-51; repr. in Art in Theory, 1900-1990: An Anthology of Changing Ideas, eds. Charles Harrison and Paul Wood, Blackwell, 1992, pp 324-328. (English)

• "Chelovek bret cheloveka", Kino 27, 22 Sep 1925, p 2. (Russian)
  • "A Man Beats Another", trans. Natasha Kurchanova, October 134 (Fall 2010), p 90. (English)

• "Fakt protiv anektoda", Vecherniaia Moskva, 14 Oct 1925, p 3. (Russian)
  • "A Fact versus an Anecdote", trans. Natasha Kurchanova, October 134 (Fall 2010), pp 91-92. (English)

• "Foto i kino", Sovetskoe kino 4-5 (1926), p 23. (Russian)
  • "Photo in Film", trans. Natasha Kurchanova, October 134 (Fall 2010), pp 92-93. (English)

• "Kino v teatre Meyerkholda", Sovetskii ekran 19 (1926), pp 6-7. (Russian)
  • "Film in Meyerhold's Theater", trans. Natasha Kurchanova, October 134 (Fall 2010), pp 93-95. (English)

• "Ostayus veren!", Kino 45, 8 Nov 1927, p 4. (Russian)
  • "I Remain Faithful", trans. Natasha Kurchanova, October 134 (Fall 2010), p 95. (English)

• "Pobeda fakta", Kino 14, 5 Apr 1927, p 3. (Russian)
  • "Victory of Fact", trans. Natasha Kurchanova, October 134 (Fall 2010), pp 95-97. (English)

• 'Protivokinoyadie" [Противокиноядие], Novyi Lef 2 (1927), pp 27-30. (Russian)
  • "A Cinematic Antidote", trans. Natasha Kurchanova, October 134 (Fall 2010), pp 97-101. (English)

• "Uchit pisateley" [Учить писателей], Novyi Lef 10 (1927), pp 33-37. (Russian)
  • "To Teach Writers", trans. Natasha Kurchanova, October 134 (Fall 2010), pp 101-104. (English)

• "Lef i kino: stenogramma soveshaniya" [Леф и кино: Стенограмма совещания] Novyi Lef 11-12 (1927), pp 63-66. (Russian)
  • "'Lef' and Film: Report from a Meeting", trans. Natasha Kurchanova, October 134 (Fall 2010), pp 104-108. (English)

• "Protiv 'tvorcheskoy' lichnosti" [Против "творческой" личности] Novyi Lef 2 (1928), pp 12-14. (Russian)
  • "Against Creative Personality", trans. Natasha Kurchanova, October 134 (Fall 2010), pp 108-110. (English)

• "Mayakovsky and the Literary Movements of 1917-30 (Material towards a literary biography)", trans. Diana Matias, Screen 15:3 (1974), pp 59-81. Introduction by Maria Enzensberger. (English)

• "IMO — Art of the Young (Abridged)", trans. Diana Matias, Screen 15:3 (Autumn 1974), pp 82-94. Introduction by Maria Enzensberger. (English)

• "From the Theory and Practice of a Script Writer", trans. Diana Matias, Screen 15:3 (Autumn 1974), pp 95-103. Introduction by Maria Enzensberger. (English)

• "O Khlebnikove" [О Хлебникове], 1944. (Russian)
  • "On Khlebnikov" [1944], trans. Diana Matias, Screen 15:3 (Autumn 1974), pp 104-109. Introduction by Maria Enzensberger. (English)

• "Thieves", trans. Diana Matias, Screen 15:3 (Autumn 1974), pp 110-111. Introduction by Maria Enzensberger. (English)

• More works. (Russian)

• 9 essays from 1915-44. (Russian)

Bibliography

• Bengt Jangfeldt, "Osip Brik: A Bibliography", Russian Literature 8 (1980), pp 579-604.

Literature

• Vahan D. Barooshian, Brik and Mayakovsky, The Hague: Mouton, 1978, ix+157 pp. Reviews: Kemp-Welch (SS 1979), Lawton (SEEJ 1980). (English)
• Anatolii Valiuzhenich, Osip Maksimovich Brik: materialy k biografii, Akmola: Niva, 1993. (Russian)
• Natasha Kurchanova, Against Utopia: Osip Brik and the Genesis of Productivism, City University of New York, Graduate Center, 2005. Dissertation. (English)
• Poetika i fonostilistika. Brikovskii sbornik, 1. Materialy mezhdunarodnoi nauchnoi konferentsii "Pervye Brikovskie chteniia: poetika i fonostilistika", ed. G.V. Vekshin, Moscow: Moscow State University of Print Media, 2010. TOC, Colloquium. (Russian)
• Natasha Kurchanova, "Osip Brik and the Politics of the Avant-Garde", October 134 (Fall 2010), pp 52-73. (English)
• Poetika i fonostilistika. Brikovskiy sbornik, Moscow, 2010. Conference proceedings. TOC. (Russian)
• Nikolay Volskii, "Ob odnoy idee O.M. Brika", TSQ 41 (Summer 2012), pp 58-73. (Russian)

See also

• Lilya Brik
• LEF
• Russia#Avant-garde

Links

• Biography. (Russian)
• 2nd Osip Brik International Colloquium: Methodology and Practices of Russian Formalism, 2013.
• Brik at Wikipedia