Aleksei Fedorov-Davydov

Aleksei Aleksandrovič Fedorov-Davydov (1900-1969) was a Soviet art scholar.

His 1929 article 'The Principles of Building Art Museums' criticized existing Soviet galleries and museums for their 'fetishism of objects'.[1] He called for museum displays to concentrate on 'processes' rather than 'things':

"The history of styles stretched into a single straight line of evolution... we know that this single line exists because every piece of the historical process is a complex intersection, a dialectical struggle between competing forces and heterogenous tendencies."[1]

References

Maria Kokkori (2013). "Exhibiting Malevich under Stalin". In Christina Lodder; Maria Kokkori; Maria Mileeva (eds.). Utopian Reality: Reconstructing Culture in Revolutionary Russia and Beyond. BRILL. p. 135. ISBN 978-90-04-26322-2.

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[LodderKokkori2013-1] Maria Kokkori (2013). "Exhibiting Malevich under Stalin". In Christina Lodder; Maria Kokkori; Maria Mileeva (eds.). Utopian Reality: Reconstructing Culture in Revolutionary Russia and Beyond. BRILL. p. 135. ISBN 978-90-04-26322-2.