Russian Avant-Garde: Between abstraction, commitment and aesthetic rupture

By Evgueny Kovtun

Book Overview

The Russian Avant-Garde was born at the turn of the twentieth century in pre-revolutionary Russia. The intellectual and cultural turmoil had then reached a peak and provided fertile soil for the formation of the movement. For many artists influenced by European art, the movement represented a way of liberating themselves from the social and aesthetic constraints of the past. It was these Avant-Garde artists who, through their immense creativity, gave birth to abstract art, thereby elevating Russian culture to a modern level.

Such painters as Kandinsky, Malevich, Goncharova, Larionov, and Tatlin, to name but a few, had a definitive impact on twentieth-century art.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 164699227X
• ISBN13: 9781646992270
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: Parkstone Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 1.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.5" x 10.6"