A lavishly illustrated volume that views Russian avant-garde art
through the lens of Dada. This is the first book to approach
Russian avant-garde art from the perspective of the anti-art canons
associated with the international Dada movement. The works
described and documented in Russian Dada were produced at the
height of Dada's flourishing, between World War I and the death of
Vladimir Lenin-who, incidentally, was a frequent visitor to Cabaret
Voltaire in Zurich, the founding site of Dada. Like the Dadaists,
the Russian avant-gardists whose works appear in this volume strove
for internationalism, fused the verbal and visual, and engaged in
eccentric practices and pacifist actions, including outrageous
performances and anti-war campaigns. The works featured in this
lavishly illustrated volume thrive on negation, irony, and
absurdity, with the goal of constructing a new aesthetic paradigm
that is an alternative to both positivist and rationalist
Constructivism as well as metaphysical and cosmic Suprematism. The
text and images show that, while not neglecting the serious project
of public agitation for Marxist ideology, the artists often pushed
the Dadaesque into Russian mass culture, in the form of absurdist
and chance-based collages and designs. In such works, Russian "da,
da (yes, yes)" was converted into a defiant "nyet, nyet (no, no)".
Russian Dada, which accompanies a major exhibition at the Museo
Reina Sofia, Madrid, includes 250 images, almost all in color, and
essays by leading art historians. An appendix provides a wide
selection of primary texts-historical writings by such key figures
as Nikolai Punin, Kazimir Malevich, Varvara Stepanova, and
Aleksandr Rodchenko. Essays by Margarita Tupitsyn, Victor Tupitsyn,
Natasha Kurchanova, Olga Burenina-Petrova Artists Natan Altman,
Vasilii Ermilov, 41 Degrees, Ivan Kluin, Gustav Klutsis, Aleksei
Kruchenykh, Valentina Kulagina, Vladimir Lebedev, Kazimir Malevich,
Aleksei Morgunov, the Nothingdoers, Ivan Puni, Aleksandr Rodchenko,
Olga Rozanova, Sergei Sharshun, Varvara Stepanova, Wladyslaw
Strzeminski, Vladimir Tatlin, Igor Terentiev, Nadezhda Udaltsova,
Ilya Zdanevich, Kirill Zdanevich Copublished with Museo Nacional
Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid
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