Ioffe Dennis G., White Frederick H. (Editors). The Russian Avant-Garde and Radical Modernism: An Introductory Reader

Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2012. — 486 p. — (Cultural Syllabus). — ISBN: 978-1-936235-29-2, ISBN: 978-1-936235-45-2.The Russian avant-garde was a composite of antagonistic groups who wished to overthrow the basic aesthetics of classical realism. Modernism was the totality of these numerous aesthetic theories, which achieved a measure of coherence immediately after the First World War. This collection of essays by leading scholars examines the major figures, movements, and manifestos of the period. Scholarly attention is given to literature, visual arts, cinema, and theatre in an attempt to capture the complex nature of the modernist movement in Russia. This book would be especially relevant for university courses on the Russian twentieth century as well as for those looking for a comprehensive approach to the various movements and artistic expressions that constitute the Russian avant-garde.An Introduction to the Russian Avant-Garde and Radical Modernism
Russian Futurism and the Related Currents
Hylaea
Russian Art of the Avant-Garde: Translated Texts
The Phenomenon of David Burliuk in the History of the Russian Avant-Garde Movement
The Revolutionary Art of Natalia Goncharova and Mikhail Larionov
Russian Suprematism and Constructivism
Kazimir Malevich: His Creative Path
Constructivism and Productivism in the 1920s
The Birth of Socialist Realism from the Spirit of the Russian Avant-Garde
Russian Art of the Avant-Garde: Translated Texts
The OBERIU Circle (Daniil Kharms and His Associates)
OBERIU: Daniil Kharms and Aleksandr Vvedensky on/in Time and History
Some Philosophical Positions in Some “OBERIU” Texts
Russian Experimental Performance and Teater
Vsevolod Meyerhold
The Culture of Experiment in Russian Teatrical Modernism: the OBERIU Theater and the Biomechanics of Vsevolod
Meyerhold
Avant-Garde Cinematography: Sergei Eisenstein and Dziga Vertov
Eisenstein: A Short Biography
Allegory and Accommodation: Vertov’s Tree Songs of Lenin (1934) as a Stalinist FilmThe Tradition of Experimentation in Russian Culture and the Russian Avant-Garde