By this metric, last year's SOTS was "One Dance" by Drake.
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Record labels often release contenders for SOTS early in the year.
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All the attention surrounding SOTS naturally sets up an economic opportunity for record labels.
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Whichever song has the highest rating at the end of the season becomes the "official" SOTS.
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"There's strategy in that labels will try to produce fun and upbeat music in time for the SOTS competition," says Lipshutz.
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So what were some of the most memorable SOTs (sound on tape) and VO (video only) of televised debates going back 2023 years ago?
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Regardless, there's no denying SOTS and the conversation surrounding it is a very real thing that has wormed its way into the pop consciousness.
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Examples of prototypical summer-sounding songs, according to Tranter, include Ariana Grande and Zedd's "Break Free" and Billboard's 2010 SOTS "California Gurls" by Katy Perry.
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Surround view cameras try to eliminate blind sots, and also help to support object detection, providing alerts to the driver automatically when they identify potential hazards.
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The Milton Police Department discovered the were dealing with furry sots after receiving several calls from residents who had spotted disoriented raccoons that they feared were rabid.
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While Billboard has documented the most popular songs of summer since 1958, the chatter about the SOTS really took off recently, around 2011, says Jason Lipshutz, an editor at the magazine.
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Still, the "competition" hasn't really even begun, and pop music aficionados will debate SOTS IRL and via social media each of the calendar days between the holidays that bookend the season.
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Ultimately it's Billboard's Summer Songs Chart that declares the SOTS "winner" by documenting the most popular songs based on Nielson's compilation of radio play, sales data and streaming activity between Memorial Day and Labor Day.
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These songs were monster hits by any measure ("One Dance" is the most streamed song ever on Spotify, and had the best performance of any single in all of 2016), but the SOTS distinction matters.
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"So if a devastating masterpiece like Gotye's 'Somebody That I Used To Know' [which finished third on Billboard's 2012 SOTS chart] is created and people find it in the summer, it won't matter," he says.
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The Gilbert Police Department has kept a sense of humor regarding this rash of flying sots, asking residents to keep erratic bird reports to a minimum, unless the animals spotted "after midnight with Taco Bell items."
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A 22-year-old marketing student at Florida International University, Dovale loves to debate with her sister and friends about which song will become Song of the Summer (SOTS), the song that reigns supreme over the season.
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In addition to strategic release dates, Edge says record labels work hard to publicize their contenders for SOTS by getting them on the radio and positioning them on playlists and streaming services such as Spotify and iTunes.
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In the West Embankment Galleries at Somerset House, the Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow, presents a solo show by Sergey Chilikov, a key figure in the subversive "Sots Art" scene that emerged in the Soviet Union in the 1970s.
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"It's in the best interest of record labels to have contenders for Billboard's SOTS because making it on the list is a free advertisement," says John Covach, director of the Institute of Popular Music at the University of Rochester.
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While the 1933 film has its spooky moments (in one scene, the Invisible Man derails a train, sending hundreds of passengers off a cliff), there is also a constantly shrieking landlady, a bumbling police inspector, a lovelorn fiancée, and comical sots.
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Curators Andrey Parshikov and Vera Trakhtenberg spent six months putting together this map of the modern and contemporary mood in Russia through the lens of one its most important sculptors, exploring along the way the fantasies of the Soviet Union, their reflections in everyday life both during and since its collapse, and the moment of transition between the grand Soviet style and the Sots art out of which contemporary art in Russia — as a resistance movement — was born.
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Viktor Petrovich Sots (, born 1958) is a retired Soviet heavyweight weightlifter. In 1981–1982 he won the world and European titles and set six ratified world records: five in the clean and jerk, and one in the snatch. “The Sot Press” was named after Russian weightlifter (1981 and 1982 World Weightlifting Championships Men’s 100kg), Viktor Sots. Viktor Sots’ “claim to fame” was being the first heavy lifter to exclusively use the power jerk instead of the split jerk in competition, often seen pressing from the front rack position in the squat. Throughout the years, the “Sots press” has been used to describe any pressing movement while in the squat (behind the neck, front rack, etc), however the original variation was performed by Viktor in the front.
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2009 VROOM! La Maison Rouge. Paris. 2008 Sots Art / Political Art in Russia from 1972 to today. La Maison Rouge. Paris.
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The Society for Old Testament Study (SOTS) is a learned society, based in the British Isles, of professional scholars and others committed to the study of the Hebrew Bible / Old Testament.
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The Sons of the South – SotS (Arabic: أبناء العرقوب transliterated Abna'a Al- Orkoub) were a small and obscure Lebanese Christian terrorist faction based in southern Lebanon, active during the Lebanese Civil War.
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My God, Help Me to Survive This Deadly Love by Dmitri Vrubel on Berlin Wall, 1991 Stalin Monument In The Hague by Komar and Melamid Often referred to as “Soviet Pop Art”, Sots Art or soc art (, short for Socialist Art) originated in the Soviet Union in the early 1970s as a reaction against the official aesthetic doctrine of the state— socialist realism, which was marked by reverential depictions of workers, peasants living happily in their communes, and, during Stalinism, a young, fit Joseph Stalin. Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid are credited with the invention of the term "Sots Art"; in an analogy with the Western pop art movement, which incorporated the kitchy elements of the Western mass culture, sots art capitalized on the imagery of the Socialist mass culture. According to Arthur Danto, Sots Art's attack on official styles is similar in intent to American pop art and German capitalist realism.Arthur Coleman Danto, After the End of Art: contemporary art and the pale of history, Princeton University Press, 1997, p126.
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Matthew, who made the programme very much his own, turned it into something of a cult, one aspect being its very own slang: "SOTS" (acronym of the title); "avids" (listeners); "the Vocalist" (the show's producer, Roger Bowman and, later, Phil Swern. The two-hour programme is divided into one-hour "sides" (called Side 1 and Side 2) and the names of those listeners whose requests are to be played used to be announced at the start of each "side"; now the names of the artists requested are announced instead. There were also well- researched features, such as an "A to Z of the Beatles" (recordings of which were repeated during the shows from which he was absent, to maintain his presence in the programme) and initially "SOTS" T-shirts for listeners whose record requests were played. Later, "SOTS" baseball caps and "SOTS" sweat shirts were given to successful requesters but, as of 2009, this practice ceased. Although the playlist was almost entirely restricted to music recorded in the 1960s, space was found for a time for so-called "roots" records from the 1950s, while recordings from that or earlier decades that re-entered the sales charts in the 1960s were also eligible.
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2007 2nd Moscow Biennial Exhibition of Modern Art, "Sots-Art", Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow. 2005 Participation in a group exhibition within the 1st Moscow Biennial Exhibition of Modern Art, "Soobshchniki" (Partners), Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow. 2005 "George&George;" exhibition "In process", paintings, video. State Center of Modern Art, Moscow.
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A. Lukachevsky, Izuchenie sots, kor. rel., Moscow, 1930. p. 19. Another such anecdote can be found in the 1929 Moscow religion survey, in which 12,000 industrial workers were surveyed anonymously and only 3,000 returned the survey, of which 88.8% claimed to be atheists, and it was then declared that 90% of Moscow industrial workers were atheists.Dimitry V. Pospielovsky.
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Gringore wrote several scathing indictments of Pope Julius II, for example, La Chasse du cerf des cerfs (1510) and the trilogy Le Jeu du Prince des Sots et Mère Sotte. Following his Parisian period, he wrote a mystery play about Louis IX, Vie Monseigneur Sainct Loys par personnaiges (1514), for the Paris guild of masons and carpenters. Some scholars consider this to be his masterpiece.
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For Kabakov, these developments led to his friends and colleagues forming a group that became known as the Moscow Conceptualists, which developed out of the Sretensky Boulevard Group. It is problematic to determine exactly who was a member of the group, as the term is fluid, broadly encompassing the Sots artists and the Collective Actions group, which both were influential in the construction of Russian conceptualist art.
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Currently, all such communities have youth gangs as part of their structure. The main Kazan gruppirovki—Kvartala, Mirnyi, Shatura, 56th Kvartal, Sots-gorod, Telestudiia, Khadi Taktash, Zhilka, Nizy, Boriskovo, Pervaki, Tukaevo— sought to divide the city among them. In order to retain and expand their control over territory, they needed to mobilize significant forces. They put serious pressure on local young people to join their gangs.
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A joint meeting with the equivalent Dutch Society, the Oudtestamentisch Werkgezelschap (OTW), is held every three years, alternating between a venue in the British Isles and a venue in the Netherlands. Membership of SOTS is open to suitably qualified persons, who are normally expected to have knowledge of Biblical Hebrew, and whose applications for membership must be supported by two current members. A new President is elected each year.
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He was elected a member of the Connecticut Senate in 1869 and in 1873. He was elected a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives from 1886 to 1889, and he served as Speaker of the Connecticut House of Representatives from 1887 to 1889.SOTS He was elected the first judge of the Borough Court of Greenwich in 1889, and held that office as long as he lived.
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The centre of the village is a conservation area. To the west and the A15 is Metheringham Heath, on which is a SSSI at a local quarry. To the east is Metheringham Fen, across which lies Metheringham Delph, which drains into the River Witham from where it connects to the Car Dyke near an old wartime airfield. The Metheringham Delph nature reserve at Tanvats, and Sots Hole, are nearby.
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A sotie (or sottie) is a short satirical play common in 15th- and 16th-century in France. The word (compare modern sottise) comes from the sots, "fools", who appeared as characters in the play. In the plays, these fools would make observations and exchange thoughts on contemporary events and individuals. Shorter plays, sometimes referred to as parades, need not have any plot at all, but relied simply on a detached dialogue.
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The plays also had highly complex rhyme schemes, and sophisticated verse structures. The best known soties playwright is Pierre Gringore, and the best-known play his 1511 Jeu du prince des sots (Play of the Prince of Fools). In this play, "Mother Fool" represents the papacy, and for this reason the satire was tolerated by the French king. In the 16th century, soties were banned and went out of use.
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Letov's lyrics became darker and more elaborate, inspired by Existentialist philosophy and literature (the Soviet proto-Existentialist writer Andrei Platonov in particular). Some songs (e.g. "Насекомые" (Insects) from Армагеддон-Попс, "Заговор" (Spell) from Здорово и вечно) also show his interest in Siberian folklore and pre-Christian beliefs. In the same year Letov, Kuzya and Oleg "Manager" Sudakov started a conceptual, Sots Art-like side project Коммунизм (Communism), where they combined kitschy Soviet art and Stalinist poetry with noise experimentation.
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On rare occasions a Meeting of the Society has been conducted much further afield: in 1952 a special meeting was held at the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome, and in 1966 a business meeting was held at the Presbyterian Hospice in Tiberias, on the shore of the Sea of Galilee (as part of a SOTS study tour of the Holy Land). Over its first century of operations, the Society conducted 195 Meetings, at which 1,448 academic papers were delivered, by 687 presenters.
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Gilabert dwells on the cruelty (cruseltat granda) of the lady and the llanguiment (disease) of the poet, his love, which pushes him to extremes (like death) and obsession. This drove him to greater heights of poetic eloquence than most of his Catalan contemporaries. This obsessiveness he shares with Andreu Febrer. The lines > Mas ya d'uymay sots en la derraria, > que ma dolor e mos mals cesseran; > car per vos muyr, d'on per mort fineran > los gran turme[n]ts que·m donatz cascun dia.
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The general tone that prevailed at the congress was still much more radical than at the constituent congress. In particular, it was decided: #Do not submit rural and parish verdicts for approval by the Zemstvo bosses, but bring them into effect according to the decrees of the assemblies. #Do not contact the Zemsky heads in any matters. #Do not give officials and police a carriage, apartments, travel money, do not send sots and ten according to the requirements of the authorities.
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From 1506 to 1512, he worked as an actor-manager and playwright in Paris. He is best known for the satirical plays he wrote during this period for the Confrérie des Enfants Sans Souci or Sots, a famous comedic acting troupe. While in Paris he became a favorite of Louis XII, who employed the troupe to poke fun at the papacy. Tension between France and Rome was building during this period, eventually resulting in the Italian Wars and the formation of the Catholic League in 1511.
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In addition to the firearms industry, the tobacco industry is also subject to paying special (occupational) taxes, and are therefore SOTs. Specifically, manufacturers of tobacco products, manufacturers of cigarette papers and tubes, and tobacco export warehouse proprietors are subject to tax. Before 1 July 2008, segments of the alcohol trade (producers and marketers of alcohol beverages, manufacturers of non- beverage products, users of tax-free alcohol, and users and dealers of specially denatured spirits) were also subject to special (occupational) taxes. These taxes were repealed in Public Law 109-59.
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Prior to 1615, the manor was held by a succession of various owners. In 1615 it was sold to William Berkeley (1582-1658) of Cowleigh, eldest son of Rowland Berkeley (1548-1611) of Worcester and Spetchley, a wealthy Worcester clothier who originated from Hereford. The house then was a large, two-storey timber-framed dwelling with a third floor of gabled attics having carved bargeboards. The house contained a small, panelled room known as the 'sots hole' where drunks were held in order to sleep off their drunkenness.
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Russia was a little late to become part of the pop art movement, and some of the artwork that resembles pop art only surfaced around the early 1970s, when Russia was a communist country and bold artistic statements were closely monitored. Russia's own version of pop art was Soviet- themed and was referred to as Sots Art. After 1991, the Communist Party lost its power, and with it came a freedom to express. Pop art in Russia took on another form, epitomised by Dmitri Vrubel with his painting titled My God, Help Me to Survive This Deadly Love in 1990.
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Since July 2007, the show's producer has been Phil Swern, whom Matthew had nicknamed "The Collector". In 2017, Tom Du Croz (now Richard Power), Phil Swern and Tony Blackburn now produce the show. It was during Swern's time on the show that the "Playing Hard To Get" feature was introduced into the Matthew era of the show. Listeners who wanted a copy of a record they had lost over the years could request a CD of that song and, if successful, were sent a special "SOTS" CD of the track after it had been played on the show.
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Madame de Pompadour, having promised Gresset that she would put on the play at her theatre, did so on February 6, 1748. She played Lisette, while the Duc de Chartres played Géronte and the Duc de Nivernais played Valère. Several lines in Les Liaisons dangereuses refer or allude to Le Méchant: Madame de Merteuil quotes Cléon's "Les sots sont ici-bas pour nos menus plaisirs" (II.I) in letter 63, citing the play, and Valmont alludes to the same character's "Ma foi, quand je parcours tout ce qui le compose [le monde]/Je ne trouve que nous qui valions quelque chose" (II.
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Sheridan has a strong rodeo culture that draws from ranching history as well as a tradition of catering to the wild-west entertainment and shopping tastes of locals and tourists. The Sheridan WYO Rodeo was established in 1932 following the success of other rodeos like the Bots Sots Stampede and the PK Ranch Rodeo of 1928. These summer events often drew participants and spectators from the nearby Crow and Northern Cheyenne reservations, leading to the slogan "Cowboy Days and Indian Nights." In 1953, the Miss Indian America Pageant and All-American Indian Days, "an interracial project in human relations," was founded to celebrate American Indian culture.
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They are perhaps best known as the founders of SotsArt (СоцАрт), a form of Soviet Nonconformist Art that combined elements of Socialist Realism and Western Pop Art in a conceptual framework that also references Dadaism. Komar and Melamid often create many works within a common theme. Their prolific collaboration precludes from mentioning all of their projects, however, some of their best known series and projects are: Sots Art series (1972–1973), Post-Art series (1973), Ancestral Portraits series (1980), Nostalgic Socialist Realism series (1982–1983), Diary series (1984–1986), Anarchistic Synthesism series (1985–1986), Most-Wanted series (1993–1997), Monumental Propaganda (1994), Elephant Project (1995–2000), American Dreams (1994–1999).
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In the mid ’80s, the format changed and each week the programme was presented by a different artist from the Sixties. Many famous names were involved, including: Alvin Stardust, Eddy Grant, Herb Alpert, Graham Nash, Frankie Valli, Bob Gaudio, Tom Jones, Neil Sedaka, Donovan, Mike Stoller, Bruce Welch, Duane Eddy, Bill Medley, Roy Wood, Mike Berry, David Crosby and many more. "I Love SOTS" car stickers were given free to listeners. In December 1988, the then producer Stuart Hobday re- discovered Simon Dee, the first voice to have been heard on Radio Caroline in 1964 and persuaded him to present a listeners’ all-time-favourite Top 20.
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In England, the Lord of Misrule – known in Scotland as the Abbot of Unreason and in France as the Prince des Sots – was an officer appointed by lot during Christmastide to preside over the Feast of Fools. The Lord of Misrule was generally a peasant or sub-deacon appointed to be in charge of Christmas revelries, which often included drunkenness and wild partying. The Church in England held a similar festival involving a boy bishop. This custom was abolished by Henry VIII in 1541, restored by the Catholic Mary I and again abolished by Protestant Elizabeth I, though here and there it lingered on for some time longer.
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From the historical point of view, Penedès was since the start of the ninth century a border region inside the county of Barcelona, which had its center in the former military town Olèrdola, fortified again because of the Christian advance in 929. Olèrdola lost its defensive significance and the capital in the second half of the twelfth century and then Vilafranca del Penedès became the capital. During the thirteenth century formed the Vegueria of Vilafranca including all Penedès and most of Anoia as the sots-vegueria of Igualada. The provincial division of the 1833 divide the region between the provinces of Barcelona, which includes Alt Penedès and Garraf, and the province of Tarragona, which includes Baix Penedès.
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SOTS was inaugurated at King's College, London on 3 January 1917, in response to a felt need for better public engagement with the Old Testament and greater collegiality among those studying it. There were 30 original members, but this soon grew to over 100 in the 1920s, and subsequently grew to over 200 in the 1940s, over 300 in the 1950s, and over 400 in the 1960s; membership numbers have been in excess of 500 since the early 2000s. About three-fifths of the members are resident in the British Isles, while two-fifths reside in other parts of the world, primarily in mainland Europe and in the USA. The first President of the Society was William H. Bennett and the first Secretary was Theodore H. Robinson.
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The painting in the background depicting an ice-trapped ship (partly hidden by the flag) resembles images of McClure's ship HMS Investigator, which was abandoned by McClure and his crew in 1853 after three years of being trapped. When he saw the painting at the Royal Academy exhibition, Trelawny, who was teetotal, was outraged by the fact that Millais had included a glass of grog and a lemon. According to Millais' son John Guille Millais, he complained to his friends in the Albany Club that "that fellow Millais has handed me down to posterity with a glass of rum-and-water in one hand and a lemon in the other". However, he eventually decided that Millais' Scottish wife Effie was probably to blame because "the Scotch are a nation of sots".
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129 It was originally classified as "novela ferrena",after Els sots feréstecs of Casellas; also Solitud of Victor Catala is counted here; other scholars underline key differences between Vayreda and Casellas and Victor Catala: the latter dazzle the reader with brutality, while in case of Vayreda it is merely a byproduct of narrative composition; the latter focus on literary effects while Vayreda is purely narrative; most importantly, the latter pursue a sour vision of life, while Vayreda is tilted towards Christian balance, Serrahima, Boada 1996, pp. 140-141, also Fumanal i Pagès 2005, p. 94 "novela objectiva"Maurici Serrahima, Marià Vayreda, [in:] Dotze mestres, Barcelona 1972, or "novela historica",opinion of Joaquim Ruyra referred after M. Lluïsa Julià i Capdevila, Joaquim Ruyra, narrador, Barcelona 1992, , p. 138 though currently scholars focus rather on psychological dimensionTayadella 1986, p.
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The print shop of Ogonyok magazine designed by El Lissitzky The first and most famous Constructivist architectural project was the 1919 proposal for the headquarters of the Comintern in St Petersburg by the Futurist Vladimir Tatlin, often called Tatlin's Tower. Though it remained unbuilt, the materials—glass and steel—and its futuristic ethos and political slant (the movements of its internal volumes were meant to symbolise revolution and the dialectic) set the tone for the projects of the 1920s. Another famous early Constructivist project was the Lenin Tribune by El Lissitzky (1920), a moving speaker's podium. During the Russian Civil War the UNOVIS group centered on Kasimir Malevich and Lissitzky designed various projects that forced together the 'non-objective' abstraction of Suprematism with more utilitarian aims, creating ideal Constructivist cities— see also El Lissitzky's Prounen-Raum, the 'Dynamic City' (1919) of Gustav Klutsis; Lazar Khidekel's Workers Club (1926) and his Dubrovka Power Plant and first Sots Town (1931–33).
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Studied at the Moscow State Polygraphic Institute (1973-1977). The institute forced him to withdraw two weeks before he was to graduate. Areas of interest include analytical conceptualism, metaconceptualism. An active member of the Moscow art scene since 1975, Skersis works independently and in co-authorship with other artists. He was a member of "The Nest" (with Gennady Donskoi and Mikhail Roshal'), 1975-79, "SZ" (with Vadim Zakharov), 1980-84, 1989-90, "Cupid" (with Yuri Albert and Andrei Filippov), "Edelweiss" and “Tsar of the Hill” (Yuri Albert, Paruir Davtyan, and Andrei Filippov), and others. A participant of numerous unofficial art shows in the Soviet Union in the 1970s and 1980s, including the 1975 nonconformist art show in the Culture Pavilion at VDNKh, Moscow; the 1977 Venice Biennale "La nuova arte Sovietica"; exhibits at APTART gallery, Moscow 1982-84; “The Other Art. Moscow 1956-1976,” The Tret'yakov State Gallery, Moscow and The State Russian Museum, Leningrad 1990-1991; “40 years of nonconformist art,” The Central Exhibition Hall Manezh Moscow 2002; “Sots-Art. Political art in Russia,” Maison Rouge, Paris, France, The Tret'yakov State Gallery, Moscow, 2007-2008; “Kollektsiia,” Pompidou Centre, 2016; “Thinking Pictures: Moscow Conceptual Art,” Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, 2016.
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