Russian Avant-Garde

by Evgueny Kovtun, Titia Bouma, Wormer Inmerc

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The Russian Avant-Garde was born at the turn of the twentieth 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 show more Russian culture to a modern level.Such painters as Kandinsky, Malevich, Goncharova, Larionov, and Tatlin show less

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Art & Design, Nonfiction, History
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709.47Arts & recreationArtsHistory, geographic treatment, biographyEuropeRussia & Eastern Europe
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N6988.5 .A83 .K68Fine ArtsVisual artsHistory
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