A SYNTHESIS OF ARCHITECTURE AND MONUMENTAL DECORATIVE ART IN THE ARCHITECTURE OF SOVIET MODERNISM WITH TOGLYATTI TAKEN AS AN EXAMPLE

Abstract

The article describes the background of the principle of architecture and monumental arts synthesis that emerged in the domestic version of modernism in 1960s. It mentions artists and architects who contributed to the modernist architecture enrichment with artistic and plastic tools. The infl uence of Moscow monumentalists who worked all over the USSR improving the image of young Soviet cities is stressed. With Toglyatt i as an example, the paper demonstrates diff erent ways how the principle of architecture and monumental arts synthesis might be applied and also discusses the principle of a single urban design plan that emerged in Soviet architecture. The authors describe construction objects built according to this principle, give glimpses of biographies of artists. The given details are based on the previous archive studies. They also provide possible reasons for the decline in monumental art and predict the emergence of modern forms of art that would interact with architecture. Objects, to which the principle of architecture and monumental arts synthesis might be applied, become a potential and an internal resource for tourist and cultural att raction of the city.