Russian avant-garde / [Evgueny Kovtun ; translation, Nick Cowling and Marie-Noëlle Dumaz].

The Russian Avant-Garde was born at the turn of the twentieth century in pre-revolutionary Russia. The intellectual and cultural turmoil had then reached a peak and provided fertile soil for the formation of the movement. For many artists influenced by European art, the movement represented a way of...

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Main Author: Kovtun, E. F. (Evgeniĭ Fedorovich)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Russian
Published: New York : Parkstone International, [2007?]
Series:Art of century collection.
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Table of Contents:
  • Art in the First Years of the Revolution; 'Picasso, this is not the new art.'; The Spiritual Universe; The ROSTA Windows (Russian Telegraph Agency) of Petrograd; The Sevodnia Artel; The VKhUTEMAS [Higher Art and Technical Studios]; Wassily Kandinsky; The Struggle Against Gravity; The 'Renaissance' of Vitebsk; Schools and Movements; The Institute of Artistic Culture; The Additional Element; Elena Guro; The Signal for a Return to Nature; The End of the INKhUK; Malevich's Second Peasant Cycle; The Rebellion Against God; The National 'Tone' of Colour.