Abstract EN:

This research has begun as an ethnographic study in various cultural spaces that seek to identify, between Moscow and St. Petersburg, some singular figures of creators. To the unsuccessful attempt to transfer in Moscow an institution of collection and exhibition of "art brut" in accord to Dubuffet ideas, an opposite trend of social movement that intended to achieve results “by the means of art”. The study is reconstructing the careers of actors involved in various forms of compensation, and the biographical trajectories of the last Soviet generation by the image of the “non-conformist” artist. This ethnography, had leed to revitalizing the memory of the great expectations that were placed on the art in the early years of the Soviet revolution to bring up a new man. Western European approaches towards identification of the origins of art were supported in Russia in the 1920s by a new Academy of the Artistic Sciences where the creative activity was studied. This rise in the time of "radiant utopias" has been necessary to understand the cultural transfers and to a better understanding of the issues related to identities of the strange creators that preside today between Paris and Moscow.