Imagining the Unimaginable: World War, Modern Art, and the Politics of Public Culture in Russia, 1914-1917

Contents

Contents List of Illustrations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . viii Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1. The Wars against Tradition The Culture of the Art Profession in Russia, 1863–1914 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 2. In the Storm Reshaping the Public and the Art World, 1914–1915. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 3. Love in the Time of Cholera Russian Art and the Real War, 1915–1916. . . . . . . . .85 4. Masters of the Material World World War I, the Avant-Garde, and the Origins of Non-Objective Art . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 5. The Revolver and the Brush The Political Mobilization of Russian Artists through War and Revolution, 1916–1917. . . . . . . . .149 Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181 Appendix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189 Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195 Selected Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .225 Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .229 ...