Jevgenia Petrova ; Ilkka Karttunen (ed.)

Ruutusotamies : Taiteen etujoukko ja Venäjän kansa = The Knave of Diamonds : Vanguard of art and the Russian people

85: EMMA - Espoon modernin taiteen museo ; Palace Editions, 2006. 1st Edition. Hardcover. The Knave of Diamonds was an avant-garde artist group founded in Russia in 1910. The birth of the group was linked with Primitivism which emerged in western art at the beginning of the 20th century from which a new dynamism was sought for art. At that time Russia too displayed a strong interest in foreign cultures. However, Russian avant-garde artists also began to seek their inspiration closer to home, in Russian folk culture as a counter-measure to western Modernism.

Text in English and Finnish. 107 pp. Near Fine. Item #3006
ISBN: 9525509087

Price: $40.00