Victory over the Sun - 2024 ACF Nationals

Question

El Lissitzky created a series of lithographs of unrealized automatons meant for performances of this opera. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this opera whose libretto was composed in zaum (“zaom”). Kazimir Malevich designed costumes and sets for this Russian Futurist opera, which featured an early version of his Black Square on its stage curtain.

ANSWER: Victory over the Sun [or Pobeda nad Solntsem]

[10e] Varvara Stepanova and Vladimir Tatlin designed costumes during this Russian avant-garde movement. Tatlin’s unrealized Monument for the Third International exemplified this industrial movement’s focus on materials.

ANSWER: Constructivism [or Constructivist art; or Konstruktivizm]

[10h] This Constructivist created angular, wireframe skirts and headdresses made of circular arcs as the costume designer for the 1924 Soviet film Aelita (“ay-LEE-tuh”), which partly inspired the Flash Gordon series.

ANSWER: Aleksandra Ekster [or Aleksandra Aleksandrovna Ekster; or Aleksandra Aleksandrovna Grigorovich]

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Summary


2024 ACF Nationals	2024-04-21	Y	24	6.25	50%	13%	0%

Data


Claremont Colleges	Arizona State	0	10	10
Chicago C	Vanderbilt	0	0	0
Cornell A	Chicago A	10	0	10
Illinois	Georgia Tech	10	10	20
Harvard	Kentucky	0	10	10
Iowa State	Johns Hopkins	0	10	10
Toronto A	Maryland	0	10	10
Minnesota B	Chicago D	0	10	10
Michigan	NYU	0	0	0
North Carolina B	Cornell B	0	0	0
Northwestern	Brown	0	10	10
Penn	Ottawa	0	0	0
Indiana	Purdue	0	0	0
Rutgers	Florida	0	10	10
South Carolina	McGill	0	10	10
Stanford	Minnesota A	0	10	10
Texas	Columbia A	0	0	0
Duke	Toronto B	0	0	0
Truman State	Berkeley B	0	0	0
Yale B	Virginia	0	0	0
WUSTL A	North Carolina A	10	10	20
WUSTL B	Columbia B	0	0	0
Waterloo	Chicago B	0	10	10
Yale A	Berkeley A	0	0	0