Avant-garde art in Ukraine, 1910-1930 : contested memory / Myroslav Shkandrij.

From pre-war years in Paris to the end of the 1920s in Kyiv, Ukrainians or artists from Ukraine produced some of the world's greatest avant-garde art and made major contributions to painting, sculpture, theatre, and film-making. This book tells their story and explores the roots of their inspir...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Shkandrij, Myroslav, 1950- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Boston : Academic Studies Press, 2019.
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Table of Contents:
  • Forging the European connection
  • Kyiv to Paris : Ukrainian art in the European avant-garde, 1910-30
  • Politics and painting
  • Politics and the Ukrainian avant-garde
  • Political posters 1919-21 and the Boichuk school
  • Jews in the artistic and cultural life of Ukraine in the 1920s
  • National modernism in post-revolutionary society : Ukrainian renaissance and Jewish revival, 1917-30
  • Artists in the maelstrom : five case studies
  • David Burliuk and steppe as avant-garde identity
  • Kazimir Malevich's autobiography and art
  • Vadym Meller and sources of inspiration in theatre art
  • Ivan Kavaleridze's contested identity
  • Dziga Vertov's enthusiasm, Kharkiv and cultural revolution
  • The avant-garde in today's cultural memory
  • Remembering the avant-garde.