Making Modernism Soviet: The Russian Avant-Garde in the Early Soviet Era, 1918-1928 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780810131309)

Making Modernism Soviet provides a new understanding of the ideological engagement of Russian modern artists such as Kazimir Malevich, Alexander Rodchenko, and Vera Ermolaeva with the political and social agenda of the Bolsheviks in the chaotic years immediately following the Russian Revolution. Focusing on the relationship between power brokers and cultural institutions under conditions of state patronage, Pamela Kachurin lays to rest the myth of the imposition of control from above upon a victimized artistic community. Drawing on extensive archival research, she shows that Russian modernists used their positions within the expanding Soviet arts bureaucracy to build up networks of like-minded colleagues. Their commitment to one another and to the task of creating a socially transformative visual language for the new Soviet context allowed them to produce some of their most famous works of art. But it also contributed to the "Sovietization" of the art world that eventually sealed their fate.

Author: Pamela Kachurin
ISBN-10: 0810131307
ISBN-13: 9780810131309
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Language: English
Published: 10/31/2013
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.50d