Diaghilev's Ballets Russes

Diaghilev's Ballets Russes
Author: Lynn Garafola
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 584
Release: 1989
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

The era of the Ballets Russes is probably the most chronicled in dance history, yet this book is the first to explain the company as a totality--its art, enterprise, and tudience. Taking a fresh look at familiar sources and incorporating fascinating archival material previously unexamined by Diaghilev scholars, Lynn Garafola paints an extraordinary portrait of the Ballets Russes, one that is bound to upset received opinion about the wellsprings and impact of early modernism.

The Russian Avant-garde in the 1920s-1930s

The Russian Avant-garde in the 1920s-1930s
Author: Evgeniĭ Fedorovich Kovtun
Publisher: Parkstone Press
Total Pages: 290
Release: 1996
Genre: Art, Modern
ISBN:

At the beginning of the twentieth century, Russian art was in the vanguard of the world artistic process. The decades which had gone into renewing painting in France were compressed into ten to fifteen years in Russia. The 1910s unfolded under the sign of the growing influence of Cubism, which changed the very face of the fine arts. Yet by 1913, a turning point could be seen. New plastic problems arose, opening for Russian painters a way into the unknown. The scales began to tip in the direction of the Russian avant-garde.

Of Divers Arts

Of Divers Arts
Author: Naum Gabo
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2023-08-15
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0691251959

Constructivist and sculptor Naum Gabo’s personal account of his development as an artist A leading exponent of the modern art movement known as Constructivism, Russian-born Naum Gabo was one of the most important sculptors of the twentieth century—an artist, designer, and theorist whose work changed the course of modern art. Of Divers Arts is Gabo’s beautifully written personal account of his development and growing into consciousness as an artist and his constant search for new techniques of communication. Throughout, he reflects on the relationship between art and science and reveals the many important influences on his work, especially the natural world, Russian religious and folk art, and the work of the artist Mikhail Vrubel. The result is a remarkable autobiographical account of a major modern artist.

Moscow & St. Petersburg 1900-1920

Moscow & St. Petersburg 1900-1920
Author: John E. Bowlt
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2020-04-21
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780865653788

"First published in hardcover by The Vendome Press in 2008"--Copyright page.

Russian Avant-Garde

Russian Avant-Garde
Author: Evgueny Kovtun
Publisher: Parkstone International
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2012-01-05
Genre: Art
ISBN: 178042793X

The Russian Avant-garde was born at the turn of the 20th century in pre-revolutionary Russia. The intellectual and cultural turmoil had then reached a peak and provided fertile soil for the formation of the movement. For many artists influenced by European art, the movement represented a way of liberating themselves from the social and aesthetic constraints of the past. It was these Avant-garde artists who, through their immense creativity, gave birth to abstract art, thereby elevating Russian culture to a modern level. Such painters as Kandinsky, Malevich, Goncharova, Larionov, and Tatlin, to name but a few, had a definitive impact on 20th-century art.