The tops of the twentieth century. Conversations about the problems of art and culture. Book 2

Continuing the previously begun conversation, in the second book of conversations about the fate, problems and major figures of the history of artistic culture of the twentieth century A.K. Yakimovich attempts to bring the main results of the mature avant -garde of the first decades, compares the work of European and domestic futurists, encounters culture and criminal subculture, analyzes the art of picturesque abstraction, and denotes revolutionary potentials of cinema. Further, the new “art of arts” - the United States of America, where the main achievements in the field of technologically advanced architecture became possible in the view of the researcher. The book is written in an accessible language and is accompanied by an extensive illustrative row, which makes it in demand among the widest circle of readers, without detracting scientific significance