Victory over the Sun - Couverture souple

Matiushin, Mikhail; Malevich, Kazimir; Kruchenykh, Aleksei Eliseevich

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0946311196 ISBN 13 : 9780946311194

Editeur : Artists Bookworks, 2008

Synopsis

This Futurist opera was presented in snowy Petrograd in December 1913 to a riotous audience. The atonal music composed by Mikhail Matiushin accompanied the alogical libretto by Aleksei Kruchenykh, the action taking place in the 10th Land where "the windows of houses all face inside" and "all the paths go up to the earth," while the hands of a clock "both go backwards immediately before dinner." The cardboard costumes by Kazimir Malevich were surfaces lit by his roving colored spotlights, the characters bigger than life.

This first English translation by Dr. Evgeny Steiner is accompanied by the Russian facsimile, followed by what is known of the musical score by Mikhail Matiushin, and a selection of Malevich's Cubist costume designs. Contemporary documents, from statements by the artists and photographs, to press reviews complete the contents of Vol. 1.

Vol. 2 is a collection of scholarly essays on the Russian Futurist arts of language, music and performance, with Kruchenykh's own contribution to the "New Ways of the Word" first published in 1913.

Together, this two volume collection of Victory Over the Sun presents Russian Futurism in all its guises. It is a tool for study, while it invites recreations of it today by theater groups and those interested in the arts of language.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Artists Bookworks
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0946311196
• ISBN 13: 9780946311194
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 364
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible