Russian avant-garde and radical modernism : an introductory reader /
"A remarkable volume, the Russian avant-garde and radical modernism brings together the most significant movements and figures in Russian experimental art, cinema and literature of the early twentieth century (both pre-Soviet and Soviet) and presents them in commentary by leading scholars in th...
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Academic Studies Press,
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Publisher Address: | Brighton, MA : |
Publication Dates: | [2012] |
Literature type: | Book |
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English Russian |
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Cultural syllabus
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"A remarkable volume, the Russian avant-garde and radical modernism brings together the most significant movements and figures in Russian experimental art, cinema and literature of the early twentieth century (both pre-Soviet and Soviet) and presents them in commentary by leading scholars in the field"--Page 4 of cover. |
Item Description: | Includes text of some original essays by Russian artists in English translation. |
Carrier Form: | 486 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 472-486). |
ISBN: |
9781936235292 (hardback) : 1936235293 (hardback) 9781936235452 (paperback) 1936235455 (paperback) |
Index Number: | BH301 |
CLC: |
J151.209.9 J151.209.5 |
Call Number: | J151.209.5/R969 |
Contents: | I. An introduction to the Russian avant-garde and radical modernism / Dennis Ioffe and Frederick H. White -- II. Russian futurism and the related currents. Hylaea / Vladimir Markov. Velimir Khlebnikov : a "timid" futurist / Willem G. Weststeijn ; Mayakovsky as literary critic / Willem G. Weststeijn -- Russian art of the avant-garde : translated texts / John E. Bowlt -- The phenomenon of David Burliuk in the history of the Russian avant-garde movement / Elena Basner -- The revolutionary art of Natalia Goncharova and Mikhail Larionov / Jane A. Sharp -- III. Russian suprematism and constructivism. Kazimir Malevich : his creative path / Evgenii Kovtun ; Constructivism and productivism in the 1920s / Christina Lodder ; The birth of socialist realism from the spirit of the Russian avant-garde / Boris Groys ; Russian art of the avant-garde : translated texts / John E. Bowlt -- IV. The OBERIU circle (Daniil Kharms and his associates). OBERIU : Daniil Kharms and Aleksandr Vvedensky on/in time and history / Evgeny Pavlov ; Some philosophical positions in some "OBERIU" texts : translator's preface / Eugene Ostashevsky -- V. Russian experimental performance and theater. Vsevolod Meyerhold / Alexander Burry ; The culture of experiment in Russian theatrical modernism : the OBERIU theater and the biomechanics of Vsevolod Meyerhold / Michael Klebanov -- VI. Avant-garde cinematography: Sergei Eisenstein and Dziga Vertov. Eisenstein : a short biography / Frederick H. White ; Allegory and accomodation : Vertov's three songs of Lenin (1934) as a Stalinist film / John MacKay -- Concluding addendum : The tradition of experimentation in Russian culture and the Russian avant-garde / Dennis Ioffe. |