Russian Avant-Garde (Art of Century) (Repost)
Evgueny Kovtun, "Russian Avant-Garde (Art of Century)"
English | ISBN: 1859956785 | 2007 | PDF | 199 pages | 44 MB
English | ISBN: 1859956785 | 2007 | PDF | 199 pages | 44 MB
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.