“Art and the Art Industry” is an illustrated art magazine published by the Society for the Promotion of Arts (OPH) in St. Petersburg in 1898-1903. The magazine advocated the movement, led a polemic with the magazine " World of Art ". The short-lived magazine left a noticeable mark on art journalism. On its pages articles of famous critics, art historians and artists were published. The chronicle published in the magazine, containing announcements of exhibitions in Russia and abroad, is a valuable source for studying the artistic life of the late 1890s and early 1900s.
| Art and art industry | |
|---|---|
| Specialization | Illustrated Art Magazine |
| Periodicity | 1 time per month |
| Language | Russian |
| Editorial Address | Sink, 83; Pochtamtskaya 13 |
| Chief Editor | N.P. Sobko |
| A country |  Russian empire |
| Publisher | Arts Promotion Society |
| Established | 1898 |
| application | Chronicle of the journal "Art and the art industry" (1902-1905) |
Content
- 1 Edition History
- 2 Design
- 3 notes
- 4 Literature
Edition History
“... The editors of the new journal set themselves the goal of: disseminating among the masses of the public possibly accurate and true concepts and knowledge on the artistic side of both the past and the present; her acquaintance with all sorts of new ideas and principles in the same field; the struggle with both the old routine and the newest harmful trends in one or another branch of art and art crafts here and abroad ... the development in society of the idea of nationality in art and industry in the broadest sense of the word ... will try to report as much and as timely as possible regarding the state and development of this branch of knowledge in the province. ... The editors do not intend to give their journal a strictly scientific form, but will in every way take care of the general availability of their publication both in terms of internal content and price ” "Art and the art industry" , 1898, No. 1, C.5 [1] |
The decision to create its own periodical was made at a meeting of full members of the OPKh in the spring of 1898, the first issue was published in October 1898. In the same year, the journal Mir Mir Arta (“ideological opponents” of the journal OPKh) began to appear. The almost simultaneous creation of these magazines is connected with the shortage of art and art history periodicals felt in the late 1890s.
The editor of the journal was elected N.P. Sobko , an art historian, bibliographer, and since 1883, serving as secretary of the Society. Sobko was an advocate of mobility and was closely associated with the Association of Traveling Art Exhibitions .
A prominent art critic and one of the main ideologists of the Wanderers V.V.Stasov was invited to participate in the magazine. Articles by M. M. Antokolsky , V. V. Vereshchagin , N. P. Kondakov and N. P. Sobko himself were also published. N. K. Roerich , Assistant Sobko for work in the collective farm and in the editorial board of the journal, was published under the pseudonym “R. Outcast. "
The reasons for the collapse of the magazine was the lack of funds for its publication, which manifested itself at the end of the first year of release. In addition, the magazine was notable for its “spirit of the times”: by the end of the 1890s, the propaganda propagandized by the magazine had lost its former popularity. The personality of the editor-in-chief also played a role: N.P. Sobko was distinguished by a rigorous position, a militant rejection of new artistic movements, which did not allow changing the contents of the magazine to more attractive to the public. Even among the “Wanderers,” some found the magazine boring, and the OPK was dissatisfied with the insufficient coverage of artistic and industrial topics. Probably, Sobko lacked the business qualities required for the editorial post - according to the recollections of his contemporary, he, "... an excellent, noble, honest man, animated by a sincere and ardent love of art, was a very poor administrator and not a businessman at all."
At the end of 1900, the tension between the OPH and the editor-in-chief, connected with the deplorable state of affairs in the journal, resulted in a final discord. Sobko resigned as Secretary of the Society. He did not agree with the Society’s proposals regarding the magazine and decided to continue publishing independently, moving the magazine’s editors from the OPKh building on Bolshaya Morskaya to his apartment at Pochtamtskaya 13. Here the magazine was published until 1902.
The Society for the Encouragement of Arts, in turn, made another attempt to issue a periodical: in 1901, instead of the previous magazine, the collection “ Artistic Treasures of Russia ” was edited by A. N. Benois , which existed until 1907.
Design
N.P. Sobko attached great importance to the decoration of the magazine. In one of the letters, he characterized the future magazine as "designed to be distributed among the masses due to its cheapness and grace at the same time." Numerous color chromolithographies were printed on the pages of the magazine, texts were decorated with screensavers and initials copied from old Russian and foreign manuscripts, and the font of the Peter the Great era, created by the best word-writer of the Moscow Printing Court of the 18th century M. Efremov, was used for the text. According to O.S. Ostroy , Sobko, although he was an opponent of the Miriskussniks, "took their achievements in the field of book design" and partially used them in his journal.
Excessive processing costs became a stumbling block between the Society for the Promotion of Arts and the editor-in-chief, the editorial board demanded to change the paper and abandon color illustrations. The artist M. M. Dalkevich , a regular correspondent of the magazine, wrote to Sobko: “We have beautiful, exquisite paper before debauchery, huge, vain fields that could be scattered on small illustrations, a large print that takes up too much space for nothing.”
Notes
- ↑ Cit. according to Ostroy, 1990, p. 116
Literature
- Borovskaya, E. A. Drawing School of the Imperial Society for the Promotion of Arts: to the heights of professional maturity / E. A. Borovskaya. - St. Petersburg: Asterion, 2012 .-- 238 p. - 500 copies. - ISBN 978-5-906152-60-2 .
- Melnik N.D. History of the creation of the magazine "World of Art" // Bulletin of St. Petersburg University. Series 9. Philology. Oriental studies. Journalism. - 2015. - No. 3 . - S. 203-215 . - ISSN 2541-9358 .
- Ostroy O.S. Magazine “Art and the Art Industry” (on the history of creation) // Book Publishing in Russia in the Second Half of the 19th - Early 20th Centuries: collection / comp. and ed. O. N. Ansberg. - Leningrad: State Public Library. M.E. Saltykov-Shchedrin, 1990. - Issue. 5 . - S. 112—124 .