100 Years On: Revisiting the First Russian Art Exhibition of 1922
Author: Isabel Wünsche
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Published: 2022
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ISBN-13: 9783412525644
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Published: 2022
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ISBN-13: 9783412525644
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Publisher: Böhlau Köln
Published: 2022-12-12
Total Pages: 277
ISBN-13: 3412525650
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The First Russian Art Exhibition (Erste Russische Kunstausstellung), which opened at the Galerie van Diemen in Berlin on October 15, 1922, and later travelled to Amsterdam, introduced a broad Western audience to the most recent artistic developments in Russia. The extensive show – more than a thousand works, including paintings, graphic works, sculptures, stage designs, architectural models, and works of porcelain – was remarkably inclusive in its scope, which ranged from traditional figurative painting to the latest constructions of the Russian avant-garde. Coming on the heels of the Treaty of Rapallo, the exhibition was a first cultural step towards bilateral relations between two young and yet internationally isolated new states – the Weimar Republic and the Russian Soviet Republic. Moving away from the narrow focus on the avant-garde, the volume presents new research that examines the exhibition's broader historical scope and cultural implications. The reception of the exhibition within artistic circles in Germany, Europe, the United States, and Japan in the 1920s is addressed, as well as the disposition of many of the works exhibited. The combination of longer, thematic essays and short features, along with reproductions of newly identified works and a selection of unpublished archival materials make this book valuable to both a scholarly and a general readership.
Author: Richard Anderson
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2024-04-09
Total Pages: 381
ISBN-13: 0262048787
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →How a visionary, never-realized architectural project, devised by one of the twentieth century’s greatest artists, shaped architectural culture in Europe between the world wars. After achieving international acclaim as a painter and designer, El Lissitzky set out in 1924 to convince the world—and himself—that he was also an architect. He did this with a project for a “horizontal skyscraper,” which he gave an obscure and untranslatable name: Wolkenbügel. Eight of these buildings, perched atop slender pillars, were intended to stand at major intersections along Moscow’s Boulevard Ring, integrating the flow of tramlines, subways, and elevators. In Wolkenbügel, Richard Anderson explores Lissitzky’s translation of visual and textual media into spatial ideas and offers an in-depth study of the surviving drawings and archival artifacts related to Lissitzky's most complex architectural proposal. This book offers a new and definitive account of how Lissitzky expanded the conceptual and representational tools available to the modern architect by drawing on many sources—including photography, typography, exhibition design, and even the elementary forms of the alphabet—to create the Wolkenbügel. Anderson shows how the production and reception of a paper project served to link key ideas and relationships that animated the worlds of art and architecture, offering a new view on received histories of the interwar avant-gardes. By attending to Lissitzky’s singular architectural project, Anderson reveals the dynamics of internationality in the constitution of modern architectural culture in Europe.
Author: Annely Juda Fine Art
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Published: 2009
Total Pages: 84
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The exhibition is in part made in homage to Camilla Gray, the great critic, author, curator and champion of Russian Art. Her major book 'The Great Experiment - Russian Art' was published in 1962, one of the first comprehensive publications on the subject. The exhibition also serves as a tribute to the late Annely Juda, founder of the gallery, who was widely recognised as a key figure in bringing these artists to the British public's attention.
Author: Elizabeth Kridl Valkenier
Publisher:
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780231069649
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Author: Evgenija N. Petrova
Publisher:
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 9783940761033
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This exhibition catalogue of works from many sources outside Russia publishes lesser known works by avant-garde painters of the twentieth century such as Goncharova, Malevich, Larionov, Konchalovskii, A. Exter; by many well-known artists of late imperial Russia such as Repin, Somov, Roerich, Korovin, Vasnetsov, and Dobuzhinskii; by major nineteenth-century figures such as Kiprenskii, Briullov, Venetsianov, Ivanov, and Troponin; by the first significant portraitists in Russian art, Rokotov and Borovikhovskii. Biographies of eighty-seven artists and two indexes facilitate the use of the book as a source on nineteenth- and twentieth-century Russian art. -- Summary written by John W. Emerich, Bronze Horseman Literary Agency.
Author: John E. Bowlt
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 371
ISBN-13: 9780500610114
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Statements by Russian artists and critics presented together with concise commentaries reveal the problems and ideology of early-twentieth-century Russian art.