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] ©2012 |
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