Staging the Ukrainian avant-garde of the 1910s and 1920s / Instsenizatsiia ukrains'kogo avanhardu 1910-1920 rokiv Instsenizatsiia ukrains'kogo avanhardu
New York: Ukrainian Museum, 2015. sewn pb. The Museum of Theater, Music and Cinema Arts of Ukraine in Kyiv provided most of the visual documents and works of art published this catalogue of an exhibition at the Ukrainian Museum in New York. The extraordinary works show that Moscow and St. Petersburg/Petrograd/Leningrad had worthy rivals as art centers in the avant-garde period of the early twentieth century. Beautifully produced, the catalogue publishes research on Ukrainian modernism and works seldom seen in the West, which open a new chapter in the history of the European avant-garde. Especially vivid are costume designs done for the thriving theaters of southern Russia and Ukraine. 276 p., 28 cm, approx. 200 color illus., Ukrainian and ENGLISH. Item #1063
ISBN: 9780990852209
Chapter titles: From the easel to the stage set: the avant-garde painter and the theater; On Ukrainianization; Vladym Meller: missionary of avant-garde stage design; Total play of the body: the art of movement on the Ukrainian stage; Scenic transformation and the Ukrainian avant-garde; Avant-garde art and Ukrainian scenography in the 1910s; On the path to innovation: Ukrainian theater direction in the first third of the 20th c.; Berezil: theater as institution in Soviet Ukraine. Run: 500.
Price: $74.00