People and Izma. To the history of the avant -garde. Vakar I.

In the focus of attention of Irina Vakar - iconic figures and the most important directions of the Russian picturesque avant -garde. Was there a “Russian Cezannism”? What role did impressionism play at the beginning and end of the path of avant -garde artists? What is the work of Larionov, Malevich, Tatlin turned out to be similar to the work of Picasso? Why was the lack of person inevitable a stage of Russian art? What was the difference between the consciousness and life priorities of modernists and avant -garde, for example, Benois and Malevich? And what did the avant -garde do when all the battles were already lost? “People and Izma” answer all these questions.

Irina Vakar - the chief researcher at the Tretyakov Gallery, a specialist in the field of Russian painting of the first third of the 20th century, the curator of many exhibitions. Most of the chapters of the book are written on the basis of reports read by the author at scientific conferences.