October 1978 №07 (Winter)

Boston: MIT Press, 1978. — 134 p.Special issue: Soviet revolutionary culture.At the forefront of art criticism and theory, October focuses critical attention on the contemporary arts — film, painting, music, media, photography, performance, sculpture, and literature — and their various contexts of interpretation. Examining relationships between the arts and their critical and social contexts, October addresses a broad range of readers. Original, innovative, provocative, each issue presents the best, most current texts by and about today’s artistic, intellectual, and critical vanguard.Once again Europe and the West are haunted, by communism and its specter: the Culture of Revolution. This seventh issue of October offers, after our decade of radical aspiration and defeat, some documents of another, earlier decade, of that extended "moment in our century when revolutionary practice, theoretical inquiry, and artistic innovation were joined in a manner exemplary and unique."Annette Michelson. A Specter and Its Specter
Alfred H. Barr, Jr. Russian Diary 1927-28Jere Abbott. Foreword
John E. Bowlt. Afterword
Elizabeth Jones. A Note on Barr's Contribution to the Scholarship of Soviet ArtA. V. Lunacharsky. Gogol-Meyerhold's The Inspector-General
Paul Schmidt. Discovering Meyerhold: Traces of a Search
Margit Rowel. Vladimir Tatlin: Form/Faktura
Dziga Vertov. The Factory of Facts and Other Writings