Formerly CIP Uk. - "Ahmanson Murphy fine arts imprint". - Introduction. The Russian avant-garde and the aesthetics of anarchy : ideology, poetics, or politics? -- Movements and ideas. The aesthetics of anarchy : definitions -- Ideas : Bakunin, Tolstoy, and the Russian anarchists -- Movements : Futurisms and the principle of freedom -- Poetics. A game in hell : the poetics of chance and play -- Victory over the sun and the theater of alogism -- Deconstructing the canon : Russian Futurist books -- Locating the avant-garde's social stance. The "social test" : the avant-garde and the Great War -- The Suprematist party -- Politics. Art, creativity, and Anarkhiia -- The last revolt : politics of the Left Federation -- The avant-garde and ideology -- Conclusion. The historical paradigm : the avant-gardes and revolution
