The Great Utopia: The Russian and Soviet Avant-Garde, 1915-1932

The Great Utopia: The Russian and Soviet Avant-Garde, 1915-1932

BookThe Great Utopia: The Russian and Soviet Avant-Garde, 1915-1932
Printed byToppan Printing Company
PublisherThe Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation
Preface byThomas Krens, Michael Govan, Vladimir Gusev, Evgeniia Petrova, Iurii Korolev, Jurgen Weber
Contributing WriterPaul Wood, Василий Иванович Ракитин, Jane A. Sharp, Aleksandra Shatskikh, Christina Lodder, Hubertus Gassner, Irina Lebedeva, Charlotte Douglas, Vivian Endicott Barnett, Svetlana Dzhafarova, Margarita Tupitsyn, Susan Compton, Nina Lobanov-Rostovsky, Евгений Фёдорович Ковтун, Natal'ia Adaskina, Александр Николаевич Лаврентьев, Анатолий Анатольевич Стригалёв, Catherine Cooke
Copyright HolderThe Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, State Tret'iakov Gallery, State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation
Cover Art byKazimir Malevich
FormatSoft cover
LanguageEnglish
LocationUnited States
Copyright1992
Pages / Font732 pages
ISBN 100-89207-096-X
ChaptersPreface 1, x Preface 2, xiii Preface 3, xiv 1. The Politics of the Avant-Garde, 1 2. The Artisan and the Prophet: Marginal Notes on Two Artistic Careers, 25 3. The Critical Reception of the 0.10 Exhibition: Malevich and Benua, 38 4. Unovis: Epicenter of a New World, 53 Color Plates 1-318 5. A Brief History of Obmokhu, 257 6. The Transition to Constructivism, 266 7. The Place of Vkhutemas in the Russian Avant-Garde, 282 8. What Is Linearism?, 294 9. The Constructivists: Modernism on the Way to Modernization, 298 10. The Third Path to Non-Objectivity, 320 Color Plates 319-482 11. The Poetry of Science:Projectionism and Electroorganism, 441 12. Terms of Transition: The First Discussional Exhibition and the Society of Easel Painters, 450 13. The Russian Presence in the 1924 Venice Biennial, 466 14. The Creation of the Museum of Painterly Culture, 474 15. Fragmentation versus Totality: The Politics of (De)framing, 482 Color Plates 483-733 16. The Art of the Soviet Book, 1922-32, 609 17. Soviet Porcelain of the 1920's: Propaganda Tool, 622 18. Russian Fabric Design, 1928-32, 634 19. How Meierkhol'd Never Worked with Tatlin, and What Happened as a Result, 649 20. Nonarchitects in Architecture, 665 21. Mediating Creativity and Politics: Sixty Years of Architectural Competitions in Russia, 680 Index of Artists and Works, 716
NotesCover image: Malevich's 'Red Square (Painterly Realism: Peasant Woman in Two Dimensions)', 1915, State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia Published to accompany a special collections exhibit of the same name first held at the State Tret'iakov Gallery in Moscow and the State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg, then temporarily installed consecutively at Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt, the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, and the Guggenheim in New York City.
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