Hailed as a brilliant theoretician; Voldem?rs Matvejs (best known by his pen name Vladimir Markov) was a Latvian artist who spearheaded the Union of Youth; a dynamic group championing artistic change in Russia; 1910-14. His work had a formative impact on Malevich; Tatlin; and the Constructivists before it was censored during the era of Soviet realism. This volume introduces Markov as an innovative and pioneering art photographer and assembles; for the first time; five of his most important essays. The translations of these hard-to-find texts are fresh; unabridged; and authentically poetic. Critical essays by Jeremy Howard and Irena Buzinska situate his work in the larger phenomenon of Russian rsquo;primitivismrsquo;; i.e. the search for the primal. This book challenges hardening narratives of primitivism by reexamining the enthusiasm for world art in the early modern period from the perspective of Russia rather than Western Europe. Markov composed what may be the first book on African art and Z.S. Strother analyzes both the text and its photographs for their unique interpretation of West African sculpture as a Kantian rsquo;play of masses and weightsrsquo;. The book will appeal to students of modernism; orientalism; rsquo;primitivismrsquo;; historiography; African art; and the history of the photography of sculpture.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Five StarsBy DonCIts highly detailed an informative. The only thing missing is a time machine to go and be there.0 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Yes and NoBy Rebecca GrahamMy family and friends love Put-in-Bay; and go there a lot. This is a fantastic story of the building of the Perry Monument and such; but not of the island itself. Still an interesting read; but not as much fun as if it had included the building of the Round House!!
