Research Catalog

Title

Russian art of the avant-garde : theory and criticism, 1902-1934 / edited and translated by John E. Bowlt.

Publication

• [London] : Thames & Hudson, [2017]
• ©2017

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Details

Additional Authors

Bowlt, John E.

Description

xxxix, 376 pages : illustrations; 21 cm

Summary

During the first third of the 20th century, Russian art went through a series of dramatic changes, reflecting the political and social upheavals of the country and producing - for a brief, exciting period - a body of avant-garde work whose influence would eventually be felt throughout the rest of the world. Eagerly breaking with the past and absorbing the innovations of Europe, a new generation of young artists developed a host of fresh ideas and original styles, such as Neo-primitivism, Rayonism, Suprematism and Constructivism.

Subject

• 1900-1999
• Kunst
• Avantgarde
• Ästhetik
• Art, Russian > 20th century
• Avant-garde (Aesthetics) > Russia (Federation) > History > 20th century
• Art, Russian
• Avant-garde (Aesthetics)
• Sowjetunion
• Russland
• Russia (Federation)

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 312-360) and index.

Language (note)

• Translations from the Russian.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The subjective aesthetic: symbolism and the intuitive -- Neoprimitivism and cubofuturism -- Nonobjective art -- Statements from the catalogue of the "tenth state exhibition: nonobjective creativity and suprematism," 1919 -- The revolution and art -- Constructivism and the industrial arts -- Statements from the catalogue of the "first discussional exhibition of associations of active revolutionary art," 1924 -- Toward socialist realism -- Contributions to the first all-union congress of Soviet writers [extracts], 1934.

ISBN

• 9780500293058
• 0500293058

LCCN

^^2016958884

OCLC

• 973413665
• SCSB-10268643

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library