Download or read book Imagining the Unimaginable written by Aaron J. Cohen and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2008-06-01 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World War I had a profound influence on the aesthetics and politics of Russian culture, perhaps even more than the revolution. Looking at how the war changed Russian culture, especially visual art, Cohen shows how the wartime environment allowed iconoclastic modern art to flourish.