TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cohen,Aaron J.
TI  - Imagining the unimaginable: World War, modern art, & the politics of public culture in Russia, 1914-1917 
T2  - Studies in war, society, and the military
SN  - 0803215479
AV  - N6988 .C65 2008
U1  - 709.4709041 22
PY  - 2008///]
CY  - Lincoln
PB  - University of Nebraska Press
KW  - Art, Russian
KW  - 20th century
KW  - World War, 1914-1918
KW  - Art and the war
KW  - Art and society
KW  - Russia
KW  - History
KW  - Modernism (Art)
N1  - 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
N2  - "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
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0806/2007047098-b.html
ER  -