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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Russian Avant-Garde"”.
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The Aesthetics of Censorship and the Russian Avant-Garde: Abstraction Beyond Art
This thesis reconsiders the art of the Russian avant-garde by exploring its engagement with, influence from and contribution towards an unconventional area of culture: censorship. Although extensive research has already considered the way artists such as Malevich, Rodchenko and Stepanova blurred …
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The Second Wave of the Russian Avant-Garde: The Thaw Generation and Beyond
… who must be considered the single most important avant-garde author of the 1940's. In Chapter II, I discuss various avant-garde groups, as well as independent authors who sprang up at the beginning of the Thaw. I closely investigate the poetic paths of the most prominent representatives of …
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Following The Black Square: The Cosmic, The Nostalgic & The Transformative In Russian Avant-Garde Museology
Contemporary Russian art and museology is experiencing a revival of interest in the pioneering museology of the Russian artistic and political avant-garde of the early 20th century. This revival is exemplified in the work of contemporary Russian conceptual artist and self-styled ‘avant-garde …
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From Cubism to Non-Objective Art: Sonia and Robert Delaunay's Exchange with Russian Artists
… exchange between Sonia and Robert Delaunay and Russian avant-garde artists. Previous scholars have studied the work of the Delaunays primarily within the context of isolated movements and geographical confines. This approach has prevented us from fully grasping the ways in which the Delaunays’ …
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The infrastructural complex : a return to big design
… harkening back to the territorial plans of the Russian avant-garde or the Tennessee Valley Authority. In South Louisiana, territorial infrastructure has always been the interface between systems and complexes, and it is only through a rapid redeployment of new infrastructures across a …
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Defining the public three moments of audience address in 20th century artistic production
… audience address as manifest in the work of the Russian avant-garde of the 1920s, the sculptural practices of the American Minimalists and the critics who served to define their endeavors, as well as the more recent projects of institutional critique that have characterized one trajectory of …
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Shklovsky in the Cinema, 1926-1932
… is grounded in the interrelated contexts of the Russian intelligentsia’s ambivalent engagement with post-revolutionary culture and cinema’s rise as an artistic medium and instrument of Russian cultural development. By examining Viktor Shklovsky’s earliest activities in the Soviet film industry, …
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The Materiality of Language and Body in Vladimir Sorokin's Twentieth-Century Works
… and the body in the literary works of the Russian author Vladimir Sorokin (b. 1955) produced during the late Soviet period and the 1990s. It compares Sorokin’s twentieth-century works with contemporaneous texts and performances by poets, artists and performance groups of Moscow …
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Life Between Two Panels: Soviet Nonconformism in the Cold War Era
… native artistic heritage, especially the work of Russian avant-garde artists like Kazimir Malevich. I look at how Vassiliev, in a search for an alternative form of expression to the mandated form of art, took up the legacy of nineteenth-century Realism, avant-garde abstraction, and Socialist …
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For Tomorrow They Will Not Recognize Us: The American Reception of Soviet Leftist Art
… beginning with the immediate aftermath of the Russian Revolution in 1917 through the Second World War, into the Cold War and the Vietnam War. The thesis is divided into three sections roughly aligning with these time periods and each anchored by an exhibition that typifies the feelings and …