Russian Modernism between East and West: Natal'ia Goncharova and the Moscow Avant-Garde
Cambridge University Press
Edition: Illustrated, 6/17/2005
EAN 9780521831628, ISBN10: 0521831628
Hardcover, 360 pages, 28.2 x 21.6 x 2.5 cm
Language: English
This book reconstructs the efforts of avant-garde artists, primarily Natal'ia Goncharova and her Muscovite colleagues, to reclaim Russia's 'Eastern' cultural heritage. Before the First World War, art addressed a crisis in self-representation that was a consequence of Russia's dual cultural legacies, Asian and European. This text represents Goncharova's leading role in this project, both as a spokesperson and a painter. The animated and often polarizing debates concerning the cultural identity of contemporary art were often preceded by Goncharova's practices that react to a critical tradition that, for at least a decade, had accused the radical 'left' Muscovite artists of failing to create a national tradition.
1. Orientalisms
2. A westernizing avant-garde
3. Art into life
4. Nationality on display
official versions, avant-garde interventions
5. Orientalism in reverse
6. Anti-artist
the year 1913–1914
7. Vsechestvo
Russia's other modernism.