Imagining the Unimaginable: World War, Modern Art, and the Politics of Public Culture in Russia, 1914-1917

by Aaron J. Cohen

Book Overview

As World War I shaped and molded European culture to an unprecedented degree, it also had a profound influence on the politics and aesthetics of early-twentieth-century Russian culture. In this provocative and fascinating work, Aaron J. Cohen shows how World War I changed Russian culture and especially Russian art. A wartime public culture destabilized conventional patterns in cultural politics and aesthetics and fostered a new artistic world by integrating...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803215479
• ISBN13: 9780803215474
• Release Date: June 2008
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.0"