Imagining the unimaginable [Elektronisk resurs] world war, modern art, and the politics of public culture in Russia, 1914-1917 / Aaron J. Cohen.

• Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The Wars against Tradition: The Culture of the Art Profession in Russia, 1863–1914; 2. In the Storm: Reshaping the Public and the Art World, 1914–1915; 3. Love in the Time of Cholera: Russian Art and the Real War, 1915–1916; 4. Masters of the Material World: World War I, the Avant-Garde, andthe Origins of Non-Objective Art; 5. The Revolver and the Brush: The Political Mobilization of Russian Artiststhrough War and Revolution, 1916–1917; Conclusion; Appendix; Notes; Selected Bibliography. 
• Index. 

• Imagining the Unimaginable deftly reveals the experiences of artists and developments in mass culture and in the press against the backdrop of the broader trends in Russian politics, economics, and social life from the mid-nineteenth century to the revolution. After 1914, avant-garde artists began to imagine many things that had once seemed unimaginable. As Marc Chagall later remarked, ?The war was another plastic work that totally absorbed us, which reformed our forms, destroyed the lines, and gave a new look to the universe.? 

Ämnesord

Första världskriget 1914-1918  (sao)

Rysk konst  (sao)

Art, Russian. 

World War, 1914-1918  (LCSH)

Art, Russian  (LCSH)

Genre

Electronic books.  (LCSH)

Klassifikation

N6988 .C65 2008 (LCC)

709.4709041 (DDC)

Ib-m (kssb/8 (machine generated))