The avant-garde in Georgia (1900-1936) /
In the turbulent global context following the fall of the Russian Empire and the October Revolution, Georgia declared its independence in 1918. Between then and the beginning of Soviet rule in 1921, an Avant-Garde creative scene burgeoned. Artists met, mainly in the many taverns and cafés in Kutaisi...
| Format: | Book |
|---|---|
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
[Veurne] :
Hannibal,
[2023]
|
| Subjects: |
| Summary: | In the turbulent global context following the fall of the Russian Empire and the October Revolution, Georgia declared its independence in 1918. Between then and the beginning of Soviet rule in 1921, an Avant-Garde creative scene burgeoned. Artists met, mainly in the many taverns and cafés in Kutaisi and the capital Tbilisi, to organise multidisciplinary events. Their frequent collaborations and interactions, which bore the imprint of Georgian tradition and Western and Eastern influences, took various forms: paintings, drawings, films, photos, performances and typographical experiments. Divergent movements such as Symbolism/Neo-Symbolism, Futurism, Dadaism, Zaum, Expressionism, Cubism and Cubo-Futurism existed side by side in unprecedented creative turbulence.00This book tells the unknown story of a vibrant Avant-Garde in the Caucasus, born in the taverns of Tbilisi ? artistic laboratories where anything was possible, but where Soviet censorship lurked. Exhibition: BOZAR, Brussels, Belgium (15.10.2023 - 14.01.2024). |
|---|---|
| Item Description: | Published to accompany an exhibition held at Bozar, Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels, 5 October 2023 - 14 January 2024. |
| Physical Description: | 288 pages : illusttrations (chiefly color), facsimiles, portraits ; 33 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9789464666632 9464666633 |