The avant-garde in Georgia, 1900-1936
TitleThe avant-garde in Georgia, 1900-1936
Corporate author
Year of publication2023
Period20ste eeuw
Size288 p.: ill.: 32 x 24 cm
Materialhardcover boek, tentoonstellingscatalogus
ISBN978-94-6466-663-2
LanguageEngels
Geographical keywordGeorgië
Persons keyword Elene Achvlediani, Gigo Gabashvili, Ioseb Gabashvili, Irakli Gamrekeli, Beno Gordeziani, Milheil Gotsiridze, Lado Goediasjvili, David Kakabadze, Sjalva Kikodze, Klara Kvees, Ema Lalaeva, Eugene Lanceray, Ketevan Magalasjvili, Petre Otscheli, Niko Pirosmani, Alexander Salzmann, Valerian Sidamon-Eristavi, Demna Šengelaia, Aleksandre Sjarvasjidze, Dimitri Sjevardnadze, Irina Shtenberg, Tamar Tavadze, Zygmunt Waliszewski, Il'ya Zdanevich, Kirill Zdanevich
ShelfmarkB 2032/994
Abstract
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.
This 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.
Extensively illustrated with works by Elene Akhvlediani, Gigo Gabashvili, Irakli Gamrekeli, Lado Gudiashvili, David Kakabadze, Petre Otskheli, Niko Pirosmanashvili, Ilia and Kirile Zdanevich, and many others. (bron: website uitgever)