AUTHORIAL CREATIVITY AND MASS PRODUCTION IN LENINGRAD’S ART INDUSTRY: STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT AND INSTITUTIONAL STRUCTURES

The article is devoted to the features of interaction between authorial creativity and mass production in the formation and development of the Soviet art industry. The focus is on the problem of transformation of artistic culture and identification of the features and principles of decorative and applied art, which formed the basis of a new method of mass production. Using Leningrad’s decorative and applied art as a case study, three modes of object-based creative practice are identified - authorial unique work, authorial serial work, and art-industrial manufacture - together with the structures of its institutional organisation: educational, production, experimental, expert, and authorial venues.

SOVIET APPLIED ART, ART INDUSTRY, MASS PRODUCTION, LENINGRAD STYLE, INSTITUTIONAL ORGANISATION