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The Mammoth in the Ice

on BBC Two England

Introduced by Melvyn Bragg A film about Russian art presented by Edwin Mullins
The 1917 Revolution not only turned the political world upside down, the artists of revolutionary Russia produced a visual art that matched the excitement of the times. Painters like Kandinsky and Malevich, sculptors like Gabo and Pevsner explored a brilliant new world of abstraction. Architects designed fantastic buildings and monuments for a revolutionary people.
EDWIN mullins shows how these brilliant manifestations of the Russian visual genius emerged from what had been a backward and isolated country on the edge of Europe. He talks to Naum Gabo, the sculptor, who was in Russia after the Revolution, and relates what happened to the artists when the ideals of the Revolution began to fade.
... one of the most successfully packed, fluid and beautifully filmed art documentaries I have ever seen.
(THE LISTENER)
Director ROBIN LOUGH
Producer CHRISTOPHER MARTIN
Executive producer BILL MORTON

Contributors

Introduced By:
Melvyn Bragg
Presented By:
Edwin Mullins
Unknown:
Edwin Mullins
Director:
Robin Lough
Producer:
Christopher Martin
Producer:
Bill Morton

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