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Mikhail Larionov and the Cultural Politics of Late Imperial Russia (Paperback)
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Mikhail Larionov and the Cultural Politics of Late Imperial Russia (Paperback)
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In the turbulent atmosphere of early twentieth-century Tsarist
Russia, avant-garde artists took advantage of a newly pluralistic
culture in order to challenge orthodoxies of form as well as social
prohibitions. Very few did this as effectively, or to as broad an
audience, as Mikhail Larionov. This groundbreaking study examines
the complete range of his work (painting, book illustration,
performance, and curatorial work), and demonstrates that Larionov
was taking part in a broader cultural conversation that arose out
of fundamental challenges to autocratic rule. Sarah Warren brings
the culture of late Imperial Russia out of obscurity, highlighting
Larionov's specific interventions into conversations about
nationality and empire, democracy and autocracy, and people and
intelligentsia that colonized all areas of cultural production.
Rather than analyzing Larionov's works within the same interpretive
frameworks as those of his contemporaries in France or Germany-such
as Matisse or Kirchner-Warren explores the Russian's negotiations
with both nationalism and modernism. Further, this study shows that
Larionov's group exhibitions, public debates, and face-painting
performances were more than a derivative repetition of the
techniques of the Italian Futurists. Rather, these activities were
the culmination of his attempt to create a radical primitivism, one
that exploited the widespread Russian desire for an authentic
collective identity, while resisting imperial efforts to
appropriate this revivalism to its own ends.
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