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

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in war, society, and the militaryPublisher: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2008]Copyright date: ©2008Description: xii, 232 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0803215479
  • 9780803215474
Other title:
  • Imagining the unimaginable : World War, modern art, and the politics of public culture in Russia, 1914-1917
  • World War, modern art, & the politics of public culture in Russia, 1914-1917
  • World War, modern art, and the politics of public culture in Russia, 1914-1917
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 709.4709041 22
LOC classification:
  • N6988 .C65 2008
Online resources:
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.
Review: "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 the iconoclastic avant-garde into the art establishment and mass culture. This new wartime culture helped give birth to nonobjective abstraction (including Kazimir Malevich's famous Black Square), which revolutionized modern aesthetics. Of the new institutions, new public behaviors, and new cultural forms that emerged from this artistic engagement with war, some continued, others were reinterpreted, and still others were destroyed during the revolutionary period."--BOOK JACKET.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-228) and index.

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.

"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 the iconoclastic avant-garde into the art establishment and mass culture. This new wartime culture helped give birth to nonobjective abstraction (including Kazimir Malevich's famous Black Square), which revolutionized modern aesthetics. Of the new institutions, new public behaviors, and new cultural forms that emerged from this artistic engagement with war, some continued, others were reinterpreted, and still others were destroyed during the revolutionary period."--BOOK JACKET.

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