Drawing upon social history, material culture, and the sciences, this is the first interdisciplinary study of the Russian avant-garde, a brilliant constellation of personalities and ideas that changed the course of Russian culture just before and after the First World War. Though different in creative systems and applications, the artists and writers of the Russian avant-garde shared certain fundamental attitudes toward the purpose of culture, believing, for example, that art had the power to change life, even as defined by science. The essays discuss the many refractions of that common denominator, treating the avant-garde not as a purely artistic and literary movement, but as a multifarious phenomenon that included cultural experimentation normally considered beyond the confines of the avant-garde.
- ISBN10 0804736529
- ISBN13 9780804736527
- Publish Date 3 June 1999 (first published 1 August 1996)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 3 February 2010
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Stanford University Press
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 380
- Language English