John E. Bowlt

Moscow & St. Petersburg 1900-1920: Art, Life, & Culture of the Russian Silver Age

Stephen Bann

A Collection of Articles and Texts in Translation

Russian Formalism

Theory and Criticism, 1902-1934, with 105 Illustrations

Russian Art of the Avant-garde

Theory and Criticism, 1902-1934

Rose-Carol Washton Long

A Study of "On the Spiritual in Art"

The Life of Vasilii Kandinsky in Russian Art

The history of Russia has seesawed through the centuries between Europe and Asia. In this dichotomy, St Petersburg looked west and Moscow looked east. Power moved between the two cities; the Tsars were crowned in Moscow yet ruled from St Petersburg. But at the turn of the 20th century, just before Tsarist Russia came tumbling down, both cities experienced a sudden, brilliant flowering of the visual, literary and performing arts. Known in Russia as the Silver Age, this cultural renaissance is captured in all its dazzling originality - from the unprecedented synthesis of the arts in the productions of Diaghilev's Ballets Russes to Stanislavsky's groundbreaking stagings of Chekov, to Malevich's revolutionary Black Square - in this impeccably written, sumptuously illustrated volume.

1900-1920

Moscow and St. Petersburg in Russia's Silver Age

Jean Chauvelin

Alexandra Exter

Nadia Filatoff

Dmytro Horbachov

Pionnière de l'art cubo-futuriste russe, elle a participé au renouvellement de la peinture, du théâtre, du cinéma et du ballet au début du XXe siècle. Elle a créé des mises en scène, des scénographies de théâtre : décors géométrisants et plateaux mobiles, et des costumes pour les ballets russes.

Olga Matich

Drawing upon social history, material culture, and the sciences, this is the first interdisciplinary study of the Russian avant-garde, a brilliant constellation of personalities and ideas that changed the course of Russian culture just before and after the First World War. Though different in creative systems and applications, the artists and writers of the Russian avant-garde shared certain fundamental attitudes toward the purpose of culture, believing, for example, that art had the power to change "life", even as defined by science. The essays discuss the many refractions of that common denominator, treating the avant-garde not as a purely artistic and literary movement, but as a multifarious phenomenon that included cultural experimentation normally considered beyond the confines of the avant-garde. In one way or another, all the contributors demonstrate that the artists and writers of the Russian avant-garde attempted to make the word flesh by restructuring human life, for the avant-garde not only generated new configurations of geometries and dissonant phonemes, but also heralded the transformations of the world by seeking to overcome physical, even biological barriers.

The Russian Avant-garde and Cultural Experiment

Laboratory of Dreams

Catalogue of an exhibition organized by the Foundation for International Arts and Education, the State Russian Museum and the State Museum Exhibition Center (ROSIZO).

Kandinsky, Malevich and the Russian Avant-garde

Painting Revolution

Professor Marie Turbow Lampard

Sergeĭ Timofeevich Konenkov

Marie Turbow Lampard

Wendy R. Salmond

Sergei Konenkov was one of this century's most distinguished Russian artists. A celebrated sculptor, he was a leading figure of the young Soviet art establishment in the early 1920s. After spending over twenty years in the United States, he returned to the Soviet Union in 1945 to become a respected member of the Soviet art world. The mentor to an entire generation of Soviet sculptors, he was renowned for his personal charisma and artistic versatility. This collection of essays, interviews, and personal reminiscences is the first appraisal of his work and life published outside of Russia. The contributors view Konenkov's work within a variety of cultural, artistic, and philosophical contexts. With particular attention to his awareness of both indigenous Russian traditions and European innovations, they trace the many stages of his artistic development as he explored and experimented with techniques borrowed from Realism, Symbolism, salon portraiture, African wood carving, Socialist Realism, and Surrealism. The many different historical sources that inspired Konenkov's artistic expression, from Orthodox Christianity and the folklore of the Russian peasantry to the Egyptian pyramids and pre-classical antiquity are also discussed. The contributors also explore the relationship of Konenkov's life and ideology to art, and the effects of expatriation on creativity. Illustrated with dozens of photographs of Konenkov's art, this study of one of the most enigmatic and fascinating artists of the modern period will accompany an exhibition at The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum.

A Russian Sculptor and His Times

The Uncommon Vision of Sergei Konenkov, 1874-1971

Matthew Drutt

Some of the most outstanding exhibitions organized by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum have been those that have presented the art of the Russian avant-garde. In Amazons of the Avant-Garde: Alexandra Exter, Natalia Goncharova, Liubov Popova, Olga Rozanova, Varvara Stepanova, and Nadezhda Udaltsovathe work o six legendary Russian women artists is poignantly explored, offering a refreshing look at this important period of art. Celebrating the vital role that each artist played in the formation of the radical art of the Russian avant-garde, the book looks at the evolution of the Russian painting from the 1900's through the early 1920's. It brings together the brilliant masterpieces of the period, including many that have not been in the West since they were created. The work of these pioneering women artists is expressed as tremendously influential in the world of the Russian avant-garde and important in capturing the Modernist as a whole.

Alexandra Exter, Natalia Goncharova, Liubov Popova, Olga Rozanova, Varvara Stepanova, and Nadezhda Udaltsova

Amazons of the Avant-Garde

A Collection of Essays

Russian Art, 1875-1975

Эксперимент

A major resource, collecting essays, articles, manifestos, and works of art by Russian artists and critics in the early twentieth century, available again at the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution

Theory and Criticism

Russian Art of the Avant-Garde

John E. Bowlt

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