The Russian Avant-Garde and Radical Modernism : : An Introductory Reader / / ed. by Frederick White, Dennis G. Ioffe.

The Russian avant-garde was a composite of antagonistic groups who wished to overthrow the basic aesthetics of classical realism. Modernism was the totality of these numerous aesthetic theories, which achieved a measure of coherence immediately after the First World War. This collection of essays by...

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Place / Publishing House:Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2012]
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Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
Series:Cultural Syllabus
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Physical Description:1 online resource (488 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Note from the Editors
  • I. An Introduction to the Russian Avant-Garde and Radical Modernism
  • Introduction
  • II. Russian Futurism and the Related Currents
  • 1. Hylaea
  • 2. Russian Art of the Avant-Garde (Translated Texts)
  • 3. The Phenomenon of David Burliuk in the History of the Russian Avant-Garde Movement
  • 4. The Revolutionary Art of Natalia Goncharova and Mikhail Larionov
  • III. Russian Suprematism and Constructivism
  • 1. Kazimir Malevich: His Creative Path
  • 2. Constructivism and Productivism in the 1920s
  • 3. The Birth of Socialist Realism from the Spirit of the Russian Avant-Garde
  • 4. Russian Art of the Avant-Garde (Translated Texts)
  • IV. The OBERIU Circle (Daniil Kharms and His Associates)
  • 1. OBERIU: Daniil Kharms and Aleksandr Vvedensky on/in Time and History
  • 2. Some Philosophical Positions in Some “OBERIU” Texts (Translator’s preface)
  • V. Russian Experimental Performance and Theater
  • 1. Vsevolod Meyerhold
  • 2. The Culture of Experiment in Russian Theatrical Modernism: the OBERIU Theater and the Biomechanics of Vsevolod Meyerhold
  • VI. Avant-Garde Cinematography: Sergei Eisenstein and Dziga Vertov
  • 1. Eisenstein: A Short Biography
  • 2. Allegory and Accommodation: Vertov’s Three Songs of Lenin (1934) as a Stalinist Film
  • Concluding Addendum: The Tradition of Experimentation in Russian Culture and the Russian Avant-Garde
  • List of Contributors
  • Bibliography