The Organics of the St. Petersburg Avant-Garde: From Matyushin to Kotelnikov
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Abstract
Modernization of the 20th century is usually associated with Constructivism and technical progress. However, the St. Petersburg Avant-Garde of 1912–1915 offered an alternative concept of art, revealing the world as a unique organic whole, but not a sum of standard replaceable parts. The organic Avant-Garde as an artistic tradition was first presented by Vladimir Sterligov in the symbolic drawing A Bowl (1962), emphasizing the analytical art of Pavel Filonov and the philosophy of the expanded vision of Mikhail Matyushin, that is, transrational practices aimed at creating a picture of the world that unites the objective and the nonobjective. The organic tradition in the last quarter of the 20th century was revived in the art of Vadim Ovchinnikov, Timur Novikov, Ivan Sotnikov, and Oleg Kotelnikov, contributing to the culture of transavantgarde. The transrational and seemingly marginal ideas of the 1910s and 1920s were revealed in the 1980s and 1990s as true assembly points of the worldview. The organic tradition shows the historical dynamics of the 20th century from the Symbolist dream about a new vision of a new man to the idea of a post-industrial world after the ecological catastrophe of the Anthropocene.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.005 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".