Imagining the unimaginable : World War, modern art, & the politics of public culture in Russia, 1914-1917 / Aaron J. Cohen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cohen, Aaron J.

Series:

Studies in war, society, and the military.

Studies in war, society, and the military

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art, Russian--20th century.

Art, Russian.

World War, 1914-1918--Art and the war.

World War, 1914-1918.

Art and society--Russia--History--20th century.

Art and society.

Modernism (Art)--Russia.

Modernism (Art).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (247 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Imagining the Unimaginable deftly reveals the experiences of artists and developments in mass culture and in the press against the backdrop of the broader trends in Russian politics, economics, and social life from the mid-nineteenth century to the revolution. After 1914, avant-garde artists began to imagine many things that had once seemed unimaginable. As Marc Chagall later remarked, "The war was another plastic work that totally absorbed us, which reformed our forms, destroyed the lines, and gave a new look to the universe."

Contents:

The wars against tradition: the culture of the art profession in Russia, 1863-1914

In the storm: reshaping the public and the art world, 1914-1915

Love in the time of cholera: Russian art and the real war, 1915-1916

Masters of the material world: World War I, the avant-garde, and the origins of non-objective art

The revolver and the brush: the political mobilization of Russian artists through war and revolution, 1916-1917.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-228) and index.

ISBN:

9786611241414

9781281241412

1281241415

9780803217355

0803217358

OCLC:

437200615