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  • Soviet Salvage

    Imperial Debris, Revolutionary Reuse, and Russian Constructivism

    par Catherine Walworth ...
    Collections series Refiguring Modernism
    In Soviet Salvage, Catherine Walworth explores how artists on the margins of the Constructivist movement of the 1920s rejected “elitist” media and imagined a new world, knitting together avant-garde art, imperial castoffs, and everyday life.Applying anthropological models borrowed from Claude Lévi-Strauss, Walworth shows that his mythmaker typologies—the “engineer” and “bricoleur”—illustrate, ... En savoir plus

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  • Soviet Salvage

    Imperial Debris, Revolutionary Reuse, and Russian Constructivism

    par Catherine Walworth ...
    Collections series Refiguring Modernism
    In Soviet Salvage, Catherine Walworth explores how artists on the margins of the Constructivist movement of the 1920s rejected “elitist” media and imagined a new world, knitting together avant-garde art, imperial castoffs, and everyday life.Applying anthropological models borrowed from Claude Lévi-Strauss, Walworth shows that his mythmaker typologies—the “engineer” and “bricoleur”—illustrate, ... En savoir plus

    $49.59 CAD

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  • Russian Avant-Garde

    Between abstraction, commitment and aesthetic rupture

    par Evgueny Kovtun ...
    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 ... En savoir plus

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  • Concerning the Spiritual in Art - The Original Classic Edition

    par Kandinsky Wassily ...
    Kandinsky spent a lifetime painting in search of the spiritual. His body of work was his philosophical opus, provoked initially by the prodigious philosophical works of Madame Blavatsky, founder of the Theosophical Society, in which she introduced the Western world--and Kandinsky--to Eastern philosophies.Kandinsky believed that art had a duty to be spiritual in nature, an expression of inner need, ... En savoir plus

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  • Nature’s Experiments and the Search for Symbolist Form

    par Allison Morehead ...
    Collections series Refiguring Modernism
    This provocative study argues that some of the most inventive artwork of the 1890s was strongly influenced by the methods of experimental science and ultimately foreshadowed twentieth-century modernist practices.Looking at avant-garde figures such as Maurice Denis, Édouard Vuillard, August Strindberg, and Edvard Munch, Allison Morehead considers the conjunction of art making and experimentalism to ... En savoir plus

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  • Antoni Gaudí

    The Architect of Dreams and Devotion

    par Jeremy Roe ...
    Spanish architect and designer, Antoni Gaudí (1852-1926) was an important and influential figure in the history of contemporary Spanish art. His use of colour, application of a range of materials and the introduction of organic forms into his constructions were an innovation in the realm of architecture. In his journal, Gaudí freely expressed his own feelings on art, “the colours used in ... En savoir plus

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  • The Munich Art Hoard

    Hitler's Dealer and His Secret Legacy

    par Catherine Hickley ...
    In February 2012, in a Munich flat belonging to the elderly recluse, Cornelius Gurlitt, German customs authorities seized an astonishing hoard of more than 1,400 paintings, drawings, prints and sculptures. When Hildebrand Gurlitt's trove became public in November 2013, it caused a worldwide media sensation.Catherine Hickley has delved into archives and conducted dozens of interviews to uncover the ... En savoir plus

    $12.29 CAD

  • Agnes Martin: Her Life and Art

    par Nancy Princenthal ...
    The first biography of visionary artist Agnes Martin, one of the most original and influential painters of the postwar periodOver the course of a career that spanned fifty years, Agnes Martin’s austere, serene work anticipated and helped to define Minimalism, even as she battled psychological crises and carved out a solitary existence in the American Southwest. Martin identified with the Abstract ... En savoir plus

    $22.69 CAD

  • Art Since 1989 (World of Art)

    par Kelly Grovier ...
    Collections Livre 0 - World of Art
    An extensive, accessible guide to the most groundbreaking and influential art from 1989 to the presentThe years since the collapse of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 have seen the rise of a new freedom to define art—Who makes it? Where can it be found? What is its commercial value?—and, consequently, the reevaluation of art’s place in society.Kelly Grovier surveys the dynamic developments in art ... En savoir plus

    $20.79 CAD

  • Malevich

    The Spiritual Geometry of Modernity

    par Gerry Souter ...
    Kasimir Malevich (1878-1935) was a painter and a great art theorist, but first and foremost he was the founder of Suprematism, a style seeking pure abstraction based on geometrical forms. “Suprematism,” he wrote, “has led me to discover something that had not been understood until then… There is in human consciousness an imperious desire of space and the will to escape from Earth.” This new ... En savoir plus

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  • Black Square: Malevich and the Origin of Suprematism

    par Aleksandra Shatskikh ...
    Traduit par Ms Marian Schwartz ...
    Kazimir Malevich’s painting Black Square is one of the twentieth century's emblematic paintings, the visual manifestation of a new period in world artistic culture at its inception. None of Malevich’s contemporary revolutionaries created a manifesto, an emblem, as capacious and in its own way unique as this work; it became both the quintessence of the Russian avant-gardist's own art—which he ... En savoir plus

    $38.49 CAD

  • Romanov Riches

    Russian Writers and Artists Under the Tsars

    par Solomon Volkov ...
    In a sweeping cultural history of Russia from the rise of the house of Romanov in 1613 to its downfall at the hands of the Bolsheviks in 1917, Solomon Volkov effortlessly unwinds the twisted relationship between art and the royal family.Throughout the Romanov dynasty, Russia’s greatest artists and thinkers, painters and poets, composers and dancers, served two masters. Devotion to craft—or ... En savoir plus

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