Mikhail Larionov and the Russian Avant-Garde - Rilegato

Parton, Anthony

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ISBN 10: 0691036039 ISBN 13: 9780691036038

Casa editrice: Princeton Univ Pr, 1993

Riassunto

A revolutionary multi-media artist and flamboyant personality, Mikhail Larionov galvanized the art scene in the early twentieth century, striving for a truly Russian style of art to rival the avant-garde movement of Europe and setting the stage for Russian constructivism. With his life-long partner, Nataliya Goncharova, he led his generation in exploring mysticism and shamanism and created a counterculture that flourished in the cabarets of Moscow. The development of his career, however, has long eluded the grasp of historians, partly because Larionov, ever conscious of his role in art history, backdated many of his paintings, set designs, and graphic works. In this richly illustrated book, the first in-depth treatment of the life and oeuvre of Larionov, Anthony Parton reconstructs an important episode in the story of the Russian avant-garde.
In vivid detail Parton traces the stylistic and chronological development of Larionov's career: from his years in Russia, where he began as an Impressionist painter and eventually organized the Moscow Futurists, to those in France, where, with Goncharova, he designed sets for the Ballets Russes and joined the School of Paris. At the same time he captures the rebellious nature of an artist devoted to demonstrating the spirit of the avant-garde - whether by hurling ice water at his lecture audiences to incite their rage, by incorporating vulgar graffiti into his paintings, or by setting a popular Muscovite trend for painting one's face.
Inspired early in his career by the French Fauves and primitives, Larionov, in his attempt to create an authentically Russian art, borrowed images from shamanism and archaeology and devices from folk art, particularly wood-block prints and icons. His interest in cubism, futurism, and contemporary scientific ideas led to his creation of rayism, which played on the concept of a fourth dimension. In the performing arts, he experimented with movable scenery and choreographed lighting. Examining Larionov's artistic intentions in all these areas, Parton pays close attention to contextual factors as important determinants upon the artist's work. He constructs a reliable chronology of Larionov's career, drawing on his personal writings and manifestos, on contemporary reviews, and on interviews with his friends and colleagues. Through this multi-faceted, highly nuanced investigation, Parton offers the most extensive and accurate treatment to date of an important yet long inscrutable artist.

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One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1994
"Parton has been highly successful in unraveling [Larionov's] story.... His is the first trustworthy account of Larionov's life and development.... Parton's book ... secures [Larionov] a more definite place than he previously had in the history of modern art and gives us a firm base to consider it from."--Norbert Lynton, The Times Literary Supplement

"Parton's study of Mikhail Larionov is one of the most important contributions to the recent literature on Russian modernism."--Christina Lodder, The Burlington Magazine

". . .[a] lively, kinetically illustrated monograph."--Publishers Weekly

"Larionov had many talents and an all-enveloping curiosity. It is clear from Anthony Parton's exact and lengthy researches that he took in everything. . . .This is a detailed, exact and exhilarating account of work well done and affections that did not stale."--New York Times Book Review

"Parton's study sets a new standard for scholarly books on Russian art. . . . [H]e discusses as no one before has done the intellectual setting of Larionov's work. . . . [A] most impressive achievement."--Choice

"[Parton's] is the first trustworthy account of Larionov's life and development, notable for the absence of hyperbole which previous celebrants have expended on it. . . . Parton's book, while excusing nothing, secures [Larionov] a more definite place than he previously had in the history of modern art and gives us a firm base to consider it from."--Times Literary Supplement

Contenuti:

	List of Illustrations
	A Chronology
	Acknowledgments
	Preface
1	Tiraspol to Myasnitskaya Ulitsa 1881-1908	3
2	The Golden Fleece 1908-1910	18
3	The Jack of Diamonds and Donkey's Tail 1910-1912	33
4	The Futurists Take Command 1913-1914	56
5	Russian Folk Art and the Sources of Neo-Primitivism	77
6	Antiquity and the Buryat Shaman	96
7	The Cubist and Futurist Roots of Rayism	113
8	The Modern Prometheus: Ouspensky's Four-Dimensional Superman	131
9	Towards an Avant-Garde Theatre 1914-1917	142
10	Up and Coming in Paris and London 1917-1919	164
11	Montparnasse Bienvenue 1919-1929	178
12	Zhizn' Prokhodit, Lyubov' Net 1930-1964	206
	Notes	225
	Bibliography	237
	Principal Exhibitions and Catalogues	243
	Index	247

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• Editore: Princeton Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0691036039
• ISBN 13: 9780691036038
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida