The Russian Experiment in Art, 1863-1922This is the first book to examine the Russian contribution to what we now call the modern movement in art and architecture. It reveals an activity and achievement which have hitherto been almost unknown and unrecognized, but which are now shown to be of the greatest importance. The author has tracked down periodicals, exhibition catalogues, and other documents which are now very rare, and out of them has reconstructed the record of her period. She has supported this with illustrations drawn from all the important Western collections of Russian art and also from the far more important collections in Russian museums, which have never been seen in the West. Artists like Malevich, Tatlin, Rodchenko, are now given their full stature as artists and personalities. They are also seen as powerful formative influences on the continental movements between the wars, particularly the Bauhaus. The story is exciting as well as important. From the pure aesthetic point of view it tells of historic experiments and discoveries. But its greatest interest is in its account of an attempt to integrate art with life and society - an attempt that was pursued with passionate idealism through the revolutionary years which gave the movement's protagonists such a unique opportunity. In its short-lived heyday, music, drama, poetry and all the industrial arts were embraced in an experiment which attacked at the root the problems which still concern the artist today. --from the Publisher. |
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... décor and also began replacing the craftsman stage - designer of tradition with artists such as these . Finally , with Diaghilev , they were intro- duced to Europe . Where before the backcloth had been a decorative background to the ...
... décor and also began replacing the craftsman stage - designer of tradition with artists such as these . Finally , with Diaghilev , they were intro- duced to Europe . Where before the backcloth had been a decorative background to the ...
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... décor and dancer became integrated , they were able to create a visual whole , a complete illusion , a world of perfect harmony . The man responsible for introducing the ' World of Art ' to the stage was Prince Sergei Volkonsky , the ...
... décor and dancer became integrated , they were able to create a visual whole , a complete illusion , a world of perfect harmony . The man responsible for introducing the ' World of Art ' to the stage was Prince Sergei Volkonsky , the ...
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... décor of the exhibition had been devised by Bakst and was conceived as a garden with sculpture relieving the monotony of the rows of canvases . It was typical of the ideals of the ' World of Art ' that even an exhibition should be ...
... décor of the exhibition had been devised by Bakst and was conceived as a garden with sculpture relieving the monotony of the rows of canvases . It was typical of the ideals of the ' World of Art ' that even an exhibition should be ...
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Abramtsevo colony abstract painting Academy activity Alexander Rodchenko architecture avant-garde Bakst ballet became began Benois Blaue Reiter Blue Rose Borissov-Mussatov brilliant brothers Cézanne colour Composition construction Constructivism Constructivist contemporary contributed costume Cubist Cubo-Futurist culture David Burliuk décor decorative Diaghilev dynamic early El Lissitzky exhibition figures Filonov Filosofov folk-art forms French friends Futurist Gabo Golden Fleece ideas Impressionist influence Inkhuk introduced Kandinsky Kasimir Malevich Knave of Diamonds Korovin Kusnetsov Larionov and Goncharova later Lissitzky Liubov Popova magazine Mamontov Matisse Mayakovsky Mikhail Larionov modern movement Morosov Moscow Moscow College Munich Museum Mussatov Natalia Goncharova oil on canvas organized painters Paris peasant Petrograd Pevsner Picasso pictorial poets Polenov Portrait Primitivist production Proletcult Revolution rhythm Rosanova Russian art Saint Petersburg scene sculpture sent Serov Shchukin studies style Suprematism Suprematist Symbolist theatre theatrical tradition typical Union of Youth Vasnetsov Vitebsk Vkhutemas Vladimir Tatlin Vrubel World of Art Yakulov