Modernism and the Spiritual in Russian Art: New Perspectives

• Main Author: Kozicharow, Nicola (Editor) (auth)
• Other Authors: Hardiman, Louise (Editor) (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Open Book Publishers 2017
• Subjects: History of art / art & design styles; art; history of art; modernism; spirituality; Russia; religion
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

In 1911 Vasily Kandinsky published the first edition of 'On the Spiritual in Art', a landmark modernist treatise in which he sought to reframe the meaning of art and the true role of the artist. For many artists of late Imperial Russia - a culture deeply influenced by the regime's ado...