| Description |
1 online resource (xxiii, 145 pages) |
| Contents |
The great experiment : the Moscow Museum of Painterly Culture, 1918-1928 -- The center of artistic life : the Peoples' School of Art in Vitebsk, 1919-1923 -- The last citadel : the Petrograd Museum of Artistic Culture GINKhUK, 1919-1926 -- Epilogue |
| Summary |
This book provides an understanding of the ideological engagement of Russian modern artists such as Kazimir Malevich, Alexander Rodchenko, and Vera Ermolaeva with the political and social agenda of the Bolsheviks in the chaotic years immediately following the Russian Revolution. Focusing on the relationship between power brokers and cultural institutions under conditions of state patronage, the author lays to rest the myth of the imposition of control from above upon a victimized artistic community. Drawing on extensive archival research, she shows that Russian modernists used their positions within the expanding Soviet arts bureaucracy to build up networks of like-minded colleagues. Their commitment to one another and to the task of creating a socially transformative visual language for the new Soviet context allowed them to produce some of their most famous works of art. But it also contributed to the "Sovietization" of the art world that eventually sealed their fate |
| Notes |
Substantial revision of the author's thesis (1998) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Artists and museums -- Soviet Union -- History -- 20th century
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Art -- Political aspects -- Soviet Union
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Avant-garde (Aesthetics) -- Soviet Union
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Modernism (Art) -- Soviet Union
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Art, Soviet.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Russian & Former Soviet Union.
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Art -- Political aspects
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Art, Soviet
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Artists and museums
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Avant-garde (Aesthetics)
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Modernism (Art)
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Visual Arts.
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Art, Architecture & Applied Arts.
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Visual Arts - General.
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Soviet Union
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2013002282 |
| ISBN |
9780810167261 |
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0810167263 |
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