Imagining the unimaginable World War modern art the politics of public culture in Russia 1914 1917 1st Edition by Aaron Cohen ISBN 9780803217355 0803217358

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ISBN 10: 0803217358
ISBN 13: 9780803217355
Author: Aaron Cohen

As World War I shaped and molded European culture to an unprecedented degree, it also had a profound influence on the politics and aesthetics of early-twentieth-century Russian culture. In this provocative and fascinating work, 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.

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.”

Imagining the unimaginable World War modern art the politics of public culture in Russia 1914 1917 1st Edition Table of contents:

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, and the Origins of Non-Objective Art
5. The Revolver and the Brush: The Political Mobilization of Russian Artists through War and Revolution, 1916–1917
Conclusion
Appendix
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index

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