Overview: Until
crushed by the advent of Stalinism in the 1930s, Russian Modernism bristled with
artistic energy. Whether with far-flung visions of the future, seeds of new
artistic movements or the intense theoretical conflict between the many forms
within it, Russian Modernism constituted one of the most fertile artistic
climates in history. In Utopias, Catriona Kelly assembles such examples of this
form including reflections from Leon Bakst and Sergei Eisenstein, and
illustrations and writings including Mikhail Bakhtinıs "Carnival Culture" and
the work of Marina Tsvetaeva, Osip Mandelstam, Vladimir
Nabokov and many other lesser-known yet relevant writers
of this era. 378 pages.