Юрий Левинг (редактор, составитель) «Синий кирпич»

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Юрий Левинг (редактор, составитель)
«Синий кирпич»

Сборник статей посвящен 80-летию замечательного специалиста по истории русского искусства XIX - XX веков Джона Э. Боулта - редактора журнала Experiment, основателя и директора Института современной русской культуры, коллекционера, воспитавшего несколько поколений американских славистов и специалистов по русскому авангарду. Книга включает статьи ведущих искусствоведов и историков культуры, театральных и кинокритиков, литературоведов, а также архивные публикации и воспоминания коллег, друзей и учеников Джона Боулта.

“My emigration began when I flew from Rome to California to the sound of fireworks. It was the Fourth of July. Paying no attention to the rumble, I immediately sat down to write letters to all the American Slavic professors I knew, enclosing a brief abstract of my thesis, Culture Two.

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There were two responses. One suggested that I apply to graduate school at Brown University (where I could not even fly — a family of four was allowed to take out of the USSR $500, which was already running out). The second letter was from John Bowlt.

“Your abstract is very interesting”, John wrote. “I would like to ask you to come to a conference to be held in Hawaii and make a presentation about your thesis. I suspect you don't have any money, so I am enclosing a round-trip ticket with this letter. I look forward to seeing you in Honolulu.”

Is it any wonder that our friendship with John and my admiration for him continues to this day.

It would be impossible to imagine the history of the Russian avant-garde without the works of John Bowlt. And a bookshelf without Blue Brick.”

— Vladimir Paperny,

author of Architecture in the Age of Stalin: Culture Two