Overview

In this groundbreaking study, Nina Gurianova identifies the early Russian avant-garde (1910-1918) as a distinctive movement in its own right and not a preliminary stage to the Constructivism of the 1920s. Gurianova identifies what she terms an ""aesthetics of anarchy""-art-making without rules-that greatly influenced early twentieth-century modernists. Setting the early Russian avant-garde movement firmly within a broader European context, Gurianova draws on a wealth of primary and archival sources by individual writers and artists, Russian theorists, theorizing artists, and German philosophers. Unlike the post-revolutionary avant-garde, which sought to describe the position of the artist in the new social hierarchy, the early Russian avant-garde struggled to overcome the boundaries defining art and to bridge the traditional gap between artist and audience. As it explores the aesthetics embraced by the movement, the book shows how artists transformed literary, theatrical, and performance practices, eroding the traditional boundaries of the visual arts and challenging the conventions of their day.

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Author:   Nina Gurianova
Publisher:   University of California Press
Imprint:   University of California Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.726kg
ISBN:  

9780520268760

ISBN 10:   0520268768
Pages:   360
Publication Date:   06 March 2012
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Available To Order  
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Table of Contents

Introduction. The Russian Avant-Garde and the Aesthetics of Anarchy Part I. Movements and Ideas 1. The Aesthetics of Anarchy: Definitions 2. Ideas: Bakunin, Tolstoy, and the Russian Anarchists 3. Movements: Futurisms and the Principle of Freedom Part II. Poetics 4. A Game in Hell: The Poetics of Chance and Play 5. Victory over the Sun and the Theater of Alogism 6. Deconstructing the Canon: Russian Futurist Books Part III. Locating the Avant-Garde's Social Stance 7. The Social Test : The Avant-Garde and the Great War 8. The Suprematist Party Part IV. Politics 9. Art, Creativity, and Anarkhiia 10. The Last Revolt: Politics of the Left Federation 11. The Avant-Garde and Ideology Conclusion. The Historical Paradigm: The Avant-Gardes and Revolution Notes List of Illustrations Index

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Nina Gurianova is Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Northwestern University. She is the author of Exploring Color: Olga Rozanova and Early Russian Avant-Garde.

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