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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Plates bright and vivid. Some light tanning due to age.. Softcover. English. See images for condition.

About the book >.>.> Extremism was all but the norm of every artistic program adversaries were shown no mercy and sadly at times no attempt was even made to understand them. But now decades later much looks different some quarrels were clearly forced some conflicts were imaginary-as indeed consensus could also prove to be. The actual battleline was often far away from the polemical front and there were silent disputes-not between artists but between their works. All of this now needs to be given serious study as do the paintings. drawings and prints here gathered together for the first time in many years The aspect of Russian art of the twenties that has probably always been hardest to come to terms with is the perhaps unprecedented ebullience and explosive intensity of artistic life at a time of rapid social change and daily hardship-at a time of hunger cold and the absence of elementary materials and proper working conditions. The political changes long awaited in Russia were not just “days that shook the world” they shook the inner world of artists too. Even those who had looked forward to the Revolution with joy and hope did not find it easy to accept the stark reality. The artist’s imagination collided with the here and now. Occasionally the result was tragic. But for many it provided a beneficial albeit painful impetus to innovate and address a new audience Naturally the events that occurred in Russian art at the start of the twenties were bound up with what had gone before. The art of the first post-Revolutionary decade was created by men and women who had ties with the art of the turn of the century. Many artists’ groups not only endured but remained faithful to their previous traditions and continued to influence the direction art took. (MP)