Lars Kleberg: At the Crossroads of the Avant-Garde, Kartoniert / Broschiert
At the Crossroads of the Avant-Garde
- Ivan Aksyonov and Russian Modernism
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- Translation:
- Charles Rougle
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press, 11/2025
- Binding:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9780810149588
- Item number:
- 12371195
- Volume:
- 168 Pages
- Weight:
- 454 g
- Format:
- 229 x 153 mm
- Thickness:
- 12 mm
- Release date:
- 15.11.2025
- Series:
- Studies in Russian Literature and Theory
- Note
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Caution: Product is not in German language
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| Buch, Gebunden, Englisch | EUR 147.75* |
Blurb
Rediscovering a lost luminary of modernism and the Russian avant-garde
This kaleidoscopic biography offers readers a compelling microhistory of a revolutionary moment in art and politics through its portrait of an enigmatic but influential figure: Ivan Aksyonov authored the first book-length study about Pablo Picasso, translated Elizabethan drama, and was a literary adviser to Vsevolod Meyerhold, as well as a teacher of Sergei Eisenstein in Meyerhold's institute and an important critic, before dying in 1935. Lars Kleberg traces Aksyonov's influences, interlocutors, and creative output in multiple genres and media to bring a complicated and fascinating character back to life. Kleberg invites us to reconsider the avant-garde and to understand the political and artistic ferment of the revolutionary era and its aftermath in new, deeper ways.
