Union of Youth

The Union of Youth: An Artists' Society of the Russian Avant-Garde. By Jeremy Howard. Manchester Univ Pr, 1992. Hardcover, 224 pages.

This book represents the first attempt to analyze the development of the St. Petersburg avant-garde between 1910 and 1914, with special reference to the art society, "The Union of Youth", born out of the short-lived art society "Triangle", led by the unorthodox figure of Dr Nikolai Kul'bin. For this reason, much attention is given to Kul'bin's aesthetics in the early part of the book. His pan-psychic ideas and their relation to the art of Triangle are introduced to demonstrate their place and transmission within the context of the local Russian avant-garde, and the Union of Youth in particular. (excerpt from editorial review, Amazon).