Author: John E. Bowlt (Ed.)
Title: Russian Avant-Garde Theatre: War, Revolution & Design
Description: Nick Hern Books, 2014. Small quarto, 418pp. 150 colour illustrations, many from unpublished archives. Published to complement V & A with Bakhrushin Theatre exhibition. Text includes 9 essays by leading experts. Heavy book, may require extra for postage to overseas addresses. Used; Like New As artistic, literary and musical traditions underwent a shattering transformation against the backdrop of the First World War and the Russian Revolutions, artists from many different creative disciplines converged on Russian theatre to produce a remarkable flowering of radical, visionary and experimental design for performance. Such artists included Kazimir Malevich, Alexander Rodchenko, Sergei Eisenstein, Vladimir Tatlin, Alexandra Exter, El Lissitzky, Liubov Popova and Varvara Stepanova. Paperback.

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