The avant-garde in Georgia, 1900-1936 / authors, Nana Kipiani, Irine Jorjadze and Tea Tabatadze.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kipiani, Nana, writer of added commentary.

Jorjadze, Irine, writer of added commentary.

Tabatadze, Tea, writer of added commentary.

Palais des beaux-arts (Brussels, Belgium), host institution.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art, Georgian (South Caucasian)--20th century--Exhibitions.

Art, Georgian (South Caucasian).

Avant-garde (Aesthetics)--Georgia (Republic)--History--20th century--Exhibitions.

Avant-garde (Aesthetics).

Genre:

exhibition catalogs.

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

288 pages : illusttrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 33 cm

Place of Publication:

[Veurne] : Hannibal ; Bruxelles : Europalia Georgia, 2023.

Summary:

"In the turbulent global context following the fall of the Russian Empire and the October Revolution, Georgia declared its independence in 1918. Between then and the beginning of Soviet rule in 1921, an Avant-Garde creative scene burgeoned. Artists met, mainly in the many taverns and cafés in Kutaisi and the capital Tbilisi, to organise multidisciplinary events. Their frequent collaborations and interactions, which bore the imprint of Georgian tradition and Western and Eastern influences, took various forms: paintings, drawings, films, photos, performances and typographical experiments. Divergent movements such as Symbolism/Neo-Symbolism, Futurism, Dadaism, Zaum, Expressionism, Cubism and Cubo-Futurism existed side by side in unprecedented creative turbulence. This book tells the unknown story of a vibrant Avant-Garde in the Caucasus, born in the taverns of Tbilisi - artistic laboratories where anything was possible, but where Soviet censorship lurked."--Publisher information.

In the turbulent global context following the fall of the Russian Empire and the October Revolution, Georgia declared its independence in 1918. Between then and the beginning of Soviet rule in 1921, an Avant-Garde creative scene burgeoned. Artists met, mainly in the many taverns and cafés in Kutaisi and the capital Tbilisi, to organise multidisciplinary events. Their frequent collaborations and interactions, which bore the imprint of Georgian tradition and Western and Eastern influences, took various forms: paintings, drawings, films, photos, performances and typographical experiments. Divergent movements such as Symbolism/Neo-Symbolism, Futurism, Dadaism, Zaum, Expressionism, Cubism and Cubo-Futurism existed side by side in unprecedented creative turbulence.00This book tells the unknown story of a vibrant Avant-Garde in the Caucasus, born in the taverns of Tbilisi ? artistic laboratories where anything was possible, but where Soviet censorship lurked. 00Exhibition: BOZAR, Brussels, Belgium (15.10.2023 - 14.01.2024).

Notes:

Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at Bozar, Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels, 5 October 2023 - 14 January 2024.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9789464666632

9464666633

OCLC:

1417271036