Paperno I., Grossman J. (eds.) Creating Life: The Aesthetic Utopia of Russian Modernism

Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1994. — 300 p. — ISBN10: 0804722889; ISBN13: 978-0804722889.This book analyzes the modernist aesthetic utopia, advancing two arguments concerning the historical evolution of the Russian literary and cultural tradition: that modernism, ostensibly reacting against positivism and realism, assimilated some of the fundamental principles of its archenemy; and that there is an essential continuity between turn-of-the-century modernist aesthetics and Soviet culture of the 1920’s and 1930’s.Introduction, Irina PapernoThe Meaning of Art: Symbolist Theories, Irina Paperno
The Symbolist Meaning of Love: Theory and Practice, Olga Matich
Creating the Living Work of Art: The Symbolist Pygmalion and His Antededents, Irene Masing-Delic
Andrei Bely and the Argonauts' Mythmaking, Alexander Lavrov
Valery Briusov and Nina Petrovskaia: Clashing Models of Life in Art, Joan Delaney Grossman
Viacheslav Ivanov: From Aesthetic Theory to Biographical Practice, Michael Wachtel
The Legacy of the Symbolist Aesthetic Utopia: From Futurism to Socialist Realism, Irina GutkinAppendix: The Russian Texts