Russian Avant-garde: Theories of Art, Architecture and the City
- ISBN-10
- 185490390X
- ISBN-13
- 9781854903907
- Category
- Art / History / General
- Pages
- 208
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1995
- Publisher
- Academy Editions
- Author
- Catherine Cooke
Description
The revolutionary avant-garde of Russia in the Twenties was among the most fertile episodes of all Modernism. But the theoretical ideas underlying their challenging imagery and language have hitherto been only glimpsed. Since Stalin stamped out such enquiry in the early Thirties, key personalities were driven into obscurity. Soviet researchers permitted to touch this material could publish only circumscribed vignettes which neither mediated the cultural divide nor placed the ideas in their larger intellectual and political contexts. Here for the first time is a study that exploits the freedoms of the new situation in Russia to explore the intellectual challenges of this extraordinary material and to present its ideas with the same objectivity as we apply to Western work. At one level the book is a readable and colourful introduction to the whole period and its major artistic and architectural personalities, many of whom emerge as individuals with coherent views and distinctive careers for the first time. At another level, it is a unique source book of original documentary texts which not only bring the period to life in entirely new detail, but offer a launchpad for teaching and further research. By cutting through the period in different ways, successive chapters build a multi-dimensional narrative that starts with foundations of avant-garde theoretical debate in the nineteenth century.
Get the book
Other editions
Similar books
-
Breaking Frame: Technology and the Visual Arts in the Nineteenth Century
By Julie WoskTechnology and the Visual Arts in the Nineteenth Century
-
What Great Paintings Say: Masterpieces in Detail
By Rose-Marie Hagen, Rainer HagenWhat Great Paintings Say: Masterpieces in Detail
-
Orazio and Artemisia Gentileschi
By Keith Christiansen, Judith Walker Mann, Orazio GentileschiCiampelli was, like Pomarancio and Giuseppe Valeriano, regularly employed by the Jesuits; see Hibbard in Wittkower and Jaffe 1972, 40-41. 6. Bellori (1672) 1976, 217. 7. See Urbino 1953, 35-36. in 1607 (cat. 77).
-
I Want to See This Annie Mattygraph: Cartoon History of the Coming of the Movies
By Stephen BottomorePer tale motivo , nel 1908 in America la Germantown sullo schermo , e mettendosi a cantare sul filo dell'accompagna- Citizens ' Association mise al bando questi copricapi da " vedova mento musicale . Un simile coinvolgimento era ...
-
Dada & Surrealism A&i
By Matthew GaleIn the 1940s the Mandragora group around Braulio Arenas and Enrique Gomez Correa emerged in Santiago de Chile , distinguishing Surrealism from the Stalinism of the poet Pablo Neruda . In Buenos Aires the flavour of the movement was ...
-
The Art of John Biggers: View from the Upper Room
By Alvia J. WardlawCatalog of a traveling exhibition first held at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Apr. 2-Aug. 28, 1995.
-
The art of Betye and Alison Saar: secrets, dialogues, revelations : Wight art gallery, University of California Los Angeles, [January...
By Elizabeth ShepherdThe art of Betye and Alison Saar: secrets, dialogues, revelations : Wight art gallery, University of California Los Angeles, [January...
-
The Paintings of Karel Du Jardin, 1626-1678: Catalogue Raisonné
By Jennifer KilianAccording to A. Sutherland Harris , this painting bore an attribution to Jan Asselijn ' until it was recognised as a work of Du Jardin by Otto Naumann in 1984 ( privately ) . This was confirmed by R. Trnek and accepted by both A. C. ...
-
David Smith: Drawing + Sculpting : [exhibition], Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, April 16 - July 17, 2005
By David Smith, Steven A. Nash, Candida N. SmithDavid Smith: Drawing + Sculpting : [exhibition], Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, April 16 - July 17, 2005
-
Abstrakter Expressionismus (Abstract Expressionism, Dt.). Der Triumph Der Amerikanischen Malerei
By Irving SandlerAbstrakter Expressionismus (Abstract Expressionism, Dt.). Der Triumph Der Amerikanischen Malerei