Radical Russia
Subtitle: art, culture and revolution
By: Peter Waldron, assisted by Jamie Freeman and Ryan Hale
Contributors: Freeman, Jamie; Hale, Ryan; Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts
Publisher: Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Norwich
Language: eng
Number of pages: 111
ISBN-13: 9780946009725
Subjects: Russian Art; Exhibitions; Soviet Art; Avant-garde (Aesthetics); History; Art; Revolution (Soviet Union : 1917-1921) fast (OCoLC)fst01907572
Description: "The revolutions of 1917 in Russia swept away the centuries-old Romanov dynasty and installed Lenin's Bolsheviks in power. Russian art and culture too were thrown into disarray as traditional forms of expression were challenged and subverted by a new generation of young, radical artists and writers who seized upon the dramatic development of abstraction in west European art and gave it a uniquely Russian character. Kazimir Malevich, Vladimir Maiakovskii, Natalia Goncharova and El Lissitzky each brought their own style to the Russian avant-garde, shocking and provoking their audiences. This new book by Peter Waldron discusses how the worlds of art and politics became intertwined in revolutionary Russia. Radical Russian culture flourished even before the cataclysmic revolutions of 1917, and revolutionary art helped to fuel the fundamental political changes symbolised by the seizure of power by the Bolsheviks in October 1917. The avant-garde devoted their energies to creating a new revolutionary society in Russia, creating stylish new objects to be used as part of everyday life, designing buildings, staging festivals and producing propaganda. Art and culture stood in the vanguard of a revolution that encompassed every facet of Russian life."
Notes: Published to accompany an exhibition held at the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, Norwich, 14 October 2017 - 11 February 2018.

Includes bibliographical references (page 107) and index.
Table of contents: title: The Emperor's old clothes: Russia and the new century; title: "A dense thicket of ... shch sounds": The silver age --; title: A slap in the face of public tatse --; title: That was the final year: 1913 --; title: Reverberating thunder: War and revolution --; title: Proletarians of the paintbrush: A new world --; title: A message from a beautiful future: Constructing the revolution --; title: Malevich's funeral: The death of radicalism.