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Title: Theatre in Revolution: Russian Avant-Garde Stage Design, 1913-1935
ISBN: 0500276463
Author:
Nancy Van Norman Baer
John E. Bowlt
Publicate Date: 1991-10
Publish: 1991-10
List Price: $24.95
Average Customer Rating: 5.0
Format: Paperback
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1: Theatre in Revolution
Theatre has always occupied a central place in Russian artistic life, and in the early twentieth-century avant-garde painters began experimenting with the stage as a visual laboratory. Artist such as Exter, Lissitzky, Malevich, Popova, Rodchenko, Stepanova, and Tatlin revolutionized costume, set, and poster design, bringing an imaginative vitality to the stage that has rarely been equaled. They replaced pained backdrops with three-dimensional built environments that employed a radically new visual language, creating images that even today appear astonishingly modern.
Many of these art works were suppressed for decades, and their appearance now provides a unique opportunity for the documentation and reassessment of Russian theatrical experiments in the pre- and post-revolutionary years. This lavishly illustrated book accompanies an exhibition organized by Nancy Van Norman Baer of The Fine Arts Museums af San Francisco in collaboration with the internationally known Soviet scholar John E. Bowlt and the staff of the Bakhrushkin State Central Theatrical Museum in Moscow. Works have been selected for their dazzling visual qualities and for the insight they provide into the turbulent history of Russian avant-garde theatre in a changing cultural climate.
--- from book's back cover
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