The Sixth Sense of the Avant-Garde: Dance, Kinaesthesia and the Arts in Revolutionary Russia

by Roger Smith, Irina Sirotkina, Roger Smith

Book Overview

This book turns to history to show just how significant movement and the sense of movement were to pioneers of modernism at the turn of the 20th century. It makes this history vivid through a picture of movement in the lives of an extraordinary generation of Russian artists, writers, theatre people and dancers bridging the last years of the tsars and the Revolution. Readers will gain a new perspective on the relation between art and life in the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350087408
• ISBN13: 9781350087408
• Release Date: December 2018
• Publisher: Methuen Drama
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.4"