Medium and Techniques: Engraving

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TATLIN’S GHOST  The Nose with Tatlin’s Monument to the Third International. Let us count the steps of remove. Tatlin’s plan was for a 400-metre high…

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A NOSE AT LARGE In 1867, Nikolai Gogol published his short story The Nose. The story is about a middle-ranking Russian bureaucrat, Collegiate Assessor Kovalyov,…

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A SYLLOGISM OF PRINTING (libel) Testing an image through printing. The drawing on the etching plate is covered in ink. The ink is wiped off,…

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PUTTING THE S INTO LAUGHTER Compulsory Hilarity. An X in Russian is transliterated as Kh, a guttural clearing of the throat like the G in…

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COPPERPLATE Light up and hard down, was how we were taught to write—a bastardised, simplified calligraphy of ‘scribble’ writing. This was possible with an HB…

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MIKHAIL IVANOVICH KALININ A Party member from 1898 and a member of the Central committee from 1919, he was neither tried nor shot. He died…

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ANOTHER KHEPPI ENDING At the end of Gogol’s story, collegiate assessor Kovalyov wakes one morning and finds that his nose is back in its place…

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AD HOC My sister collected stamps. My recollection is that from family of friends she received stamps of cosmonauts, ballet dancers and athletes, all marked…

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VYACHESLAV MIKHAILOVICH MOLOTOV A member of the Party from 1906 and a member of the Central Committee from 1921, through the period of the great…

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LEV BORISOVICH KAMENEV A member of the party from 1901 and a member of the Politburo from 1917. He was condemned in the first of…