Theater. Rococo. Symbolism. Modern. Postmodernism: V. Maksimov

The book reveals important stages of the development of world art either little -known to the Russian reader, or known unilaterally. Most chapters are devoted to significant theatrical phenomena of France, Russia, Scandinavia of the late XIX – the first half of the 20th centuries.
The author sought to reveal, first of all, the theater, first of all, the largest artistic areas of world art, which opposed the official doctrine and mass art. This is Rococo in the XVIII century, symbolism at the end of the XIX, Modern at the beginning of the XX, surrealism in the 1920s. It was in them that phenomena were ripened and born, which largely ahead of their time and determined the culture of today. All these directions to one degree or another were incarnation in Russia, sometimes under completely other names.

Author
Maksimov V.I.
Publisher
Hyperion, 2013