The aesthetics of anarchy
Subtitle: art and ideology in the early Russian avant-garde
By: Nina Gurianova
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Berkeley [Calif.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780520268760
Subjects: Russian Arts; Avant-garde (Aesthetics); Anarchism and art; History
Other titles: Art and ideology in the early Russian avant-garde
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. The Russian avant-garde and the aesthetics of anarchy : ideology, poetics, or politics?; title: Movements and ideas. The aesthetics of anarchy : definitions; title: Ideas : Bakunin, Tolstoy, and the Russian anarchists; title: Movements : Futurisms and the principle of freedom; title: Poetics. A game in hell : the poetics of chance and play; title: Victory over the sun and the theater of alogism; title: Deconstructing the canon : Russian Futurist books; title: Locating the avant-garde's social stance. The "social test" : the avant-garde and the Great War; title: The Suprematist party; title: Politics. Art, creativity, and Anarkhiia; title: The last revolt : politics of the Left Federation; title: The avant-garde and ideology; title: Conclusion. The historical paradigm : the avant-gardes and revolution.