Main entry:

Kachurin, Pamela Jill. author.

Title & Author:

Making modernism Soviet : the Russian avant-garde in the early Soviet era, 1918-1928 / Pamela Kachurin.

Publication:

Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, 2013.

Description:

xxiii, 145 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Substantially Revision of the author's thesis (1998).
Includes bibliographical references (pages 129-137) and index.
The great experiment: the Moscow Museum of Painterly Culture, 1918-1928 -- The center of artistic life: the Peoples' School of Art in Vitebsk, 1919-1923 -- The last citadel: the Petrograd Museum of Artistic Culture GINKhUK, 1919-1926 -- Epilogue.

Summary:

Making Modernism Soviet provides a new understanding of the ideological engagement of Russian modern artists such as Kazimir Malevich, Alexander Rodchenko, and Vera Ermolaeva with the political and social agenda of the Bolsheviks in the chaotic years immediately following the Russian Revolution. Focusing on the relationship between power brokers and cultural institutions under conditions of state patronage, Pamela Kachurin lays to rest the myth of the imposition of control from above upon a victimized artistic community. Drawing on extensive archival research, she shows that Russian modernists used their positions within the expanding Soviet arts bureaucracy to build up networks of like-minded colleagues. Their commitment to one another and to the task of creating a socially transformative visual language for the new Soviet context allowed them to produce some of their most famous works of art. But it also contributed to the "Sovietization" of the art world that eventually sealed their fate.

ISBN:

9780810129283 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0810129280 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0810131307
9780810131309

Subject:

Avant Garde Musikgruppe
Sovetskaja Associacija Meždunarodnogo Prava
Art, Soviet.
Modernism (Art) Soviet Union.
Avant-garde (Aesthetics) Soviet Union.
Art Political aspects Soviet Union.
Artists and museums Soviet Union History 20th century.
Art soviétique.
Modernisme (Art) URSS.
Art Aspect politique URSS.
Artistes et musées URSS Histoire 20e siècle.
Art Political aspects.
Artists and museums.
Avant-garde (Aesthetics)
Modernism (Art)
Kunst
Kunstpolitik
Modernism (konst)
Avantgarde (estetik)
Konst och politik historia.
Sovjetunionen.
Soviet Union.

Form/genre:

Theses.
History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 296194
Call No.: BIB 242604
Status: Available