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Author:

Cohen, Aaron J.

Title:

Imagining the unimaginable : World War, modern art, & the politics of public culture in Russia, 1914-1917 / Aaron J. Cohen.

Publisher:

University of Nebraska Press,

Copyright Date:

c2008

Description:

xii, 232 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Art, Russian--20th century.
World War, 1914-1918--Art and the war.
Art and society--Russia--History--20th century.
Modernism (Art)--Russia.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-228) and index. Jacket in file. IaU

Contents:

The wars against tradition : the culture of the art profession in Russia, 1863-1914 -- In the storm : reshaping the public and the art world, 1914-1915 -- Love in the time of cholera : Russian art and the real war, 1915-1916 -- Masters of the material world : World War I, the avant-garde, and the origins of non-objective art -- The revolver and the brush : the political mobilization of Russian artists through war and revolution, 1916-1917.

Series:

Studies in war, society and the military

ISBN:

0803215479 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780803215474 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)181143567

LCCN:

2007047098

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)