Lot's Wife and the Venus of Milo : Conflicting Attitudes to the Cultural Heritage in Modern Russia (Paperback)

Introduction; Part I: 1. The problem of art: i. Marxism; ii. The Symbolists; iii. The Futurists; iv. Correspondence from Two Corners; 2. The necessity of art: the last years of Aleksandr Blok; 3. The redundancy of art: Soviet and Marxist views of art in the 1920s; Part II: 4. The secret of art: two Soviet myths: i. Khlebnikov's Night Search; ii. Bagritsky's February; 5. The difference of art: some Soviet writers of the 1920s and 1930s: i. Zamyatin; ii. Pil'nyak; iii. Red Cavalry; iv. Yuriy Olesha; v. Andrey Platonov; 6. The fact of art: Leonid Leonov; 7. Some properties of art; Notes; Select bibliography; Index.