Russian Avant-Garde: Principles of New Creativity

The book by Ekaterina Bobrinskaya—art historian, doctor of sciences, and specialist in Russian art of the 20th century—is dedicated to the avant-garde as an artistic and cultural phenomenon of an era of profound transformations. The author shows how the artists of the early century turned to the image of "Scythianism", to the search for national roots, and simultaneously to the utopian design of the future. Through the works of N. Goncharova, M. Larionov, V. Chekrygin, and other masters, it reveals how the avant-garde connected archaic and innovation, past and future, transforming into a space of ideas and experiments. The book is addressed to everyone interested in the history of art and culture at the turn of the ages when painting and artistic gesture became tools for rethinking the world.