Knight's move /
"First published in Russian in 1923, Knight's Move is a collection of articles and short critical pieces that Viktor Shklovsky wrote for the newspaper Life of Art between 1919 and 1921. Shklovsky pillories the bad writers, artists, and critics of his time, especially those who used art as...
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Dalkey Archive Press,
2005
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| Edition: | 1st ed |
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| Summary: | "First published in Russian in 1923, Knight's Move is a collection of articles and short critical pieces that Viktor Shklovsky wrote for the newspaper Life of Art between 1919 and 1921. Shklovsky pillories the bad writers, artists, and critics of his time, especially those who used art as a political or social tool. And at no time is Shklovsky better than when he insists with indignation and outrage that "art has always been free of life. Its flag has never reflected the color of the flag that flies over the city fortress."" "As fresh and revolutionary today as they were when they were written, these pieces promise to infuriate an English-speaking readership as much as they did the Russian one of the 1920s."--BOOK JACKET |
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| Physical Description: | xix, 143 p. : ill. ; 21 cm |
| ISBN: | 1564783855 (alk. paper) |