On the threshold of the future. October 1917 and the fate of Russian art of the twentieth century

The collection of articles by leading domestic scientists specializing in the field of art history of the XIX and XX centuries, as well as young specialists analyzes the processes and events that have become a thematic tuning fork in the work of many masters of the early twentieth century, in particular 1917. The search for new visual forms, plot selectivity, abandonment of the past and the image of the future are invariably present in art on the breakdown of key political systems of the last century. In addition to acutely social and timely art, artists have a question of self -identification, self -awareness in the whirlpool of cultural events, which makes this publication especially relevant. The collection is of undoubted interest for the general public due to an increasing interest in the problem raised