The Avant-Garde in Russia, 1910-1930: New Perspectives - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0875870953 ISBN 13: 9780875870953

Publisher: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1980

Synopsis

Catalog for the first major museum survey devoted exclusively to the Russian Avant-Garde. Describes the goals and effervescence of Russian Modernism and its waning in the late 1920's when the avant-garde impulse was no longer tolerated by the Soviet government. 288p. Bibliography. Checklist for exhibition. Artists range from Marc Chagall, Naum Gabo and Vassilii Kandinsky to Eli Lissitzky, Kazimir Malevich and Alexandr Rodchenko. Several essays. Includes photographs and many b/w reproductions of paintings.

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Review:

This book documents "the most comprehensive survey of 1910-1930 Russian avant-garde art ever shown in this country ... [giving] us a rare glimpse of the precious few masterpieces - and more numerous sketches and fragments - that are the West's all too meager tangible legacy from one of the most seminal and prolific periods in modern art."
- Portfolio
Covering painting, sculpture, prints, drawings, books, photographs, costumes, and examples of industrial architectural, and theatrical design, it is "a significant addition to the small number of books on the Russian avant-garde. It contains 19 authoritative and enlightening essays; short sections (good for reference) on each artist ... with biographies, bibliographies; a detailed chronology of the period; and a general bibliography. The whole text is extremely useful. The works themselves ... are astonishingly relevant to the 1980s."
- Library Journal

About this edition

• Publisher: Los Angeles County Museum of Art
• Publication date: 1980
• ISBN 10: 0875870953
• ISBN 13: 9780875870953
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288
• Editor: Stephanie Barron, Maurice Tuchman