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Author Shkandrij, Myroslav, 1950- author

Title Avant-garde art in Ukraine, 1910-1930 : contested memory / Myroslav Shkandrij
Published Boston : Academic Studies Press, 2019
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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 187 pages) : illustrations
Contents Forging the European connection -- Kyiv to Paris : Ukrainian art in the European avant-garde, 1910-30 -- Politics and painting -- Politics and the Ukrainian avant-garde -- Political posters 1919-21 and the Boichuk school -- Jews in the artistic and cultural life of Ukraine in the 1920s -- National modernism in post-revolutionary society : Ukrainian renaissance and Jewish revival, 1917-30 -- Artists in the maelstrom : five case studies -- David Burliuk and steppe as avant-garde identity -- Kazimir Malevich's autobiography and art -- Vadym Meller and sources of inspiration in theatre art -- Ivan Kavaleridze's contested identity -- Dziga Vertov's enthusiasm, Kharkiv and cultural revolution -- The avant-garde in today's cultural memory -- Remembering the avant-garde
Summary From pre-war years in Paris to the end of the 1920s in Kyiv, Ukrainians or artists from Ukraine produced some of the world's greatest avant-garde art and made major contributions to painting, sculpture, theatre, and film-making. This book tells their story and explores the roots of their inspiration
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 01, 2022)
Subject Art, Ukrainian -- 20th century
Avant-garde (Aesthetics) -- Ukraine -- History -- 20th century
ART -- History -- Modern (late 19th Century to 1945)
ART / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945)
Art, Ukrainian
Avant-garde (Aesthetics)
Ukraine
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2018061401
ISBN 9781618119766
1618119761