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Author Williams, Robert C. (Robert Chadwell), 1938- author

Title Artists in revolution : portraits of the Russian avant-garde, 1905-1925 / Robert C. Williams
Published Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [1977]
©1977

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Description 1 online resource (x, 242 pages) : illustrations
Contents Innovation, revolution, and the Russian Avant-garde -- From positivism to collectivism: Lunacharsky and Proletarian culture -- Antagonism and political satire: the cartoon and the poster -- From Naturalism to symbolism: Meyerhold's Theater of the future -- Theosophy and the fourth dimension: Malevich's Suprematism -- Immortalizing the revolution: the poetry of Mayakovsky -- Constructivism: Tatlin's Monument and Eisenstein's Montage -- The Russian Avant-garde and the victory over death
Summary Artists in Revolution offers fresh and provocative essays on the life and art of eight leading figures of the Russian avant-garde during Russia's revolutionary age. Each of the artists made highly innovative contributions to the development of Russian (and some, indeed, to world) cultureduring this period, and the book utilizes both the traditional approaches of intellectual history and biography and some statistical and psychohistorical characterizations of larger groups of artists
Analysis History of specific lands
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 228-231) and index
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Subject Arts, Russian -- 20th century
Arts and revolutions -- Soviet Union
Avant-garde (Aesthetics)
Arts, Russian.
Arts and revolutions
Arts, Russian
Avant-garde (Aesthetics)
Literatur
Futurismus
Künstler
Oktoberrevolution
Kunst
Arts, Russian -- 20th century.
Arts, Modern -- 20th century -- Russia.
Arts and revolutions -- Russia.
Avant-garde (Aesthetics) -- Russia.
Soviet Union
Sowjetunion
Russland
Russisch.
Russland -- Revolution (1905)
Genre/Form Books.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 76026428
ISBN 9780253061294
0253061296