RUSSIAN REVOLUTIONARY ART by JOHN MILNER

Description: Great book in like new condition with the original dust jacket. Please see pictures for the exact condition. Clean pages with no rips, marks, or tears. Great Value!! The Russian Revolution of 1917 not only detonated a political explosion of mammoth proportions but also ignited a frenzied period of artistic creativity and experiment, extinguished only by the deadening impact of Stalin and Socialist Realism. The artistic revolution permeated all areas of aesthetic expression, but perhaps its most significant features were its whole-hearted acceptance of the machine as a dominant motif and the obsession with the fundamental structure, the actual 'construction', of objects.John Milner charts the course of Soviet art during the turbulent years immediately following the Bolshevik Revolution. Utilizing many old and historically valuable photographs, he measures the influence of the Revolution on poetry, painting, sculpture, film, stage design and architecture, gauging the disintegration of distinctions between art and construction, whose union was seen as a basis for the new society. The roles played by such artists as Rodchenko, Malevich, Tatlin, Lissitzky, Popova and Moholy-Nagy are assessed and the violent reaction against the esoteric credos of the pre-Revolutionary Mir Iskusstva group is analyzed in this provocative study of the movement dedicated to annihilating the past in art and to building a new public art based on untarnished foundations. The proceeds from the sale of this book goes to Children's, Teen and Adult programs at Tomball Community Library located in Tomball, Texas. Thanks for supporting our Library Charity!!!

Price: 20 USD

Location: Tomball, Texas

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