Gevarieerd beeld van de jaren 1923-1925 binnen de ideologische geïnspireerde kunststroming van het Constructivisme in de Sovjet-Unie.
"In Imagine No Possessions, Christina Kiaer investigates the Russian Constructivist conceptions of objects as being more than commodities. "Our things in our hands must be equals, comrades," wrote Aleksandr Rodchenko in 1925. Kiaer analyzes this Constructivist counterproposal to…
"In Imagine No Possessions, Christina Kiaer investigates the Russian Constructivist conceptions of objects as being more than commodities. "Our things in our hands must be equals, comrades," wrote Aleksandr Rodchenko in 1925. Kiaer analyzes this Constructivist counterproposal to…
« In this intellectually wide-ranging book John Roberts develops a labor theory of culture as a model for explaining the dynamics of avant-garde art and the expansion of artistic authority in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. From Duchamp to Warhol, conceptual art, and t…
"Judson Dance Theater takes a look at the radical, experimental dance presented during the early 1960s at Judson Memorial Church in downtown Manhattan." "Ramsay Burt explores the new artistic agenda set by Trish Brown, Steve Paxton, Yvonne Rainer, and the fellow dancers, putting…
The dissertation focuses on several Romanian avant-garde magazines, such as Contimporanul, Integral, and 75HP, that Romanian artists and writers created in Romania in the 1920s, after Romanian Dadaists Tristan Tzara and Marcel Iancu disbanded from Zurich Dada in the 1910s. The R…
Critics have largely neglected the color films of French film director Robert Bresson (1901?99). To correct that oversight, this study presents a revised and revitalized Bresson, comparing his style to innovations in abstract painting after World War II, exploring his affinities…