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Zusatztext 'Sarah Wanen's handsomely produced and well-researched book is a welcome addition to the sparse bibliographical sources and critical discourses on Larionov's powerful! ever-elusive work.' Slavic and East European Journal 'Despite the steadily expanding literature on the Russian avant-garde! there are still many aspects of Larionov's art and creative strategies that await scholarly attention ... this book establishes a new scholarly approach with which to investigate the culture of Russia's late Imperial period.' Burlington Magazine Informationen zum Autor Sarah Warren is Assistant Professor of Art History at Purchase College! The State University of New York! USA. In the turbulent atmosphere of early twentieth-century Tsarist Russia, avant-garde artists took advantage of a newly pluralistic culture in order to challenge orthodoxies of form as well as social prohibitions. Very few did this as effectively, or to as broad an audience, as Mikhail Larionov. Zusammenfassung In the turbulent atmosphere of early twentieth-century Tsarist Russia, avant-garde artists took advantage of a newly pluralistic culture in order to challenge orthodoxies of form as well as social prohibitions. Very few did this as effectively, or to as broad an audience, as Mikhail Larionov. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents: Introduction; The face of the exotic in Imperial Russia; Crafting nation: avant-garde resistance to the imperial folk art revival; Abstraction and the icon; Excavating the icon Pompeii; Futurist performance and nationalism; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
