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Informationen zum Autor Nina Gurianova is Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Northwestern University. She is the author of Exploring Color: Olga Rozanova and Early Russian Avant-Garde . Klappentext "In this meticulously-researched! in-depth examination of anarchism and modernism! Gurianova provides a new and compelling interpretation of the early Russian avant-garde. Her study has major implications for our understanding of some of the twentieth century's most important modernists and is an important contribution to the history and theory of radical political thought."- Allan Antliff! author of Anarchist Modernism: Art! Politics! and the First American Avant-Garde . "Gurianova is the first scholar to study the early Russian avant-garde not as a precursor to the Constructivism of the 1920s! but as a distinctive movement in its own right. In this important book! she identifies an "aesthetics of anarchy" that characterized the movement's politics and poetics-a concept with provocative implications for our understanding of the relationship between word and image. This is a work of original and compelling scholarship that will profoundly alter our understanding of the Russian avant-garde."- Nancy Perloff! Getty Research Institute (Los Angeles)! curator of the exhibit Tango with Cows: Book Art of the Russian Avant-Garde (1910-1917) . Zusammenfassung Identifies the early Russian avant-garde (1910-1918) as a distinctive movement in its own right and not a preliminary stage to the Constructivism of the 1920s. This title also identifies aesthetics of anarchy - art-making without rules - that greatly influenced early twentieth-century modernists. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction. The Russian Avant-Garde and the Aesthetics of Anarchy Part I. Movements and Ideas 1. The Aesthetics of Anarchy: Definitions 2. Ideas: Bakunin! Tolstoy! and the Russian Anarchists 3. Movements: Futurisms and the Principle of Freedom Part II. Poetics 4. A Game in Hell: The Poetics of Chance and Play 5. Victory over the Sun and the Theater of Alogism 6. Deconstructing the Canon: Russian Futurist Books Part III. Locating the Avant-Garde's Social Stance 7. The "Social Test": The Avant-Garde and the Great War 8. The Suprematist Party Part IV. Politics 9. Art! Creativity! and Anarkhiia 10. The Last Revolt: Politics of the Left Federation 11. The Avant-Garde and Ideology Conclusion. The Historical Paradigm: The Avant-Gardes and Revolution Notes List of Illustrations Index ...
