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Russian Avant-Garde

Book information

Publisher
Parkstone Press
Year
2007
ISBN
1859956785, 9781859956786
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
44 MB (46065245 bytes)
Series
Art of Century
Pages
199\200
Time added
2013-12-14 14:07:57

Description

The Russian Avant-Garde was born at the turn of the 20th century in pre-revolutionary Russia. Intellectual and cultural turmoil had then reached a peak and provided fertile soil for the formation of the movement. For many artists influenced by European art, the movement represented a way of liberating themselves from the social and aesthetic constraints of the past. It was these Avant-Garde artists who, through their immense creativity, gave birth to abstract art, thereby elevating Russian culture to a modern level. Such painters as Kandinsky, Malevitch, Gontcharova, Larionov, and Tatline, to name but a few, had a definitive impact on 20th-century art.

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