TY - GEN T1 - Imagining the unimaginable : World War, modern art, & the politics of public culture in Russia, 1914-1917 T2 - Studies in war, society, and the military. A1 - Cohen, Aaron J. LA - English PP - Lincoln PB - University of Nebraska Press YR - 2008 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocn229048542 AB - Imagining the Unimaginable deftly reveals the experiences of artists and developments in mass culture and in the press against the backdrop of the broader trends in Russian politics, economics, and social life from the mid-nineteenth century to the revolution. After 1914, avant-garde artists began to imagine many things that had once seemed unimaginable. As Marc Chagall later remarked,?The war was another plastic work that totally absorbed us, which reformed our forms, destroyed the lines, and gave a new look to the universe.? OP - 232 CN - N6988 .C65 2008eb SN - 9780803217355 SN - 0803217358 SN - 9780803215474 SN - 0803215479 KW - Art, Russian : 20th century. KW - World War, 1914-1918 : Art and the war. KW - Art and society : Russia : History : 20th century. KW - Modernism (Art) : Russia. KW - Art russe : 20e siècle. KW - Art et société : Russie : Histoire : 20e siècle. KW - Modernisme (Art) : Russie. KW - ART : Russian & Former Soviet Union. KW - Art and society KW - Art, Russian KW - Modernism (Art) KW - Russia KW - 1900-1999 KW - Art KW - History ER -