Pre-Owned Russian Avant-Garde (Paperback 9781859956786) by Evgueny Kovtun

9781859956786. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 199. Trade paperback (US). Sewn binding. 199 p. Contains: Illustrations. Art of Century. The Russian Avant-Garde was born at the turn of the 20th century in pre-revolutionary Russia. 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 Russian culture to a modern level. Such painters as Kandinsky, Malevitch, Gontcharova, Larionov, and Tatline, to name but a few, had a definitive impact on 20th-century art.