Russian Avant-Garde

Contents......Page 5
‘Picasso, this is not the new art.’......Page 7
The Spiritual Universe......Page 8
The ROSTA Windows (Russian Telegraph Agency) of Petrograd......Page 14
The VKhUTEMAS [Higher Art and Technical Studios]......Page 17
Wassily Kandinsky......Page 18
The Struggle Against Gravity......Page 23
The ‘Renaissance’ of Vitebsk......Page 27
The Institute of Artistic Culture......Page 39
The Additional Element......Page 40
Elena Guro......Page 43
The Signal for a Return to Nature......Page 44
The End of the INKhUK......Page 47
Malevich’s Second Peasant Cycle......Page 48
The Rebellion Against God......Page 51
The National ‘Tone’ of Colour......Page 54
Filonov and the Masters of Analytical Art......Page 59
The Kalevala......Page 70
Artistic Groups in the 1920s......Page 75
Sculpture, Porcelain and Textile Manufacture......Page 93
The Avant-Garde Stopped in its Tracks......Page 96
MAJOR ARTISTS......Page 103
The Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia (AKhRR), (renamed in 1928 The Association of Artists of the Revolution - AKhRR), 1922-1932, Moscow - Leningrad......Page 104
Circle of Artists, 1925-1932, Leningrad......Page 107
The Masters of Analytical Art (MAI), 1925-1932, Leningrad......Page 108
The Makovets, 1921-1925, Moscow......Page 111
The World of Art, 1898-1904, 1910-1924, St Petersburg - Moscow......Page 112
The New Society of Painters (NOZh), 1921-1914, Moscow......Page 115
Oktiabr (including the group Molodoi Oktiabr), 1930-1932, Moscow — Leningrad......Page 116
Painters of Moscow, 1924-1926, Moscow......Page 119
The Four Arts Society of Artists, 1925-1932, Leningrad — Moscow......Page 120
The Society of Moscow Artists (OMKh), 1927-1932, Moscow......Page 122
The Union of Youth, 1910-1914, 1917-1919, St Petersburg — Petrograd......Page 124
Nathan Altman (Vinnitsa, 1889 - Leningrad, 1970)......Page 126
Sergei Bulakovski (Odessa, 1880 - Kratovo, 1937)......Page 128
Leon Bakst (Grodno, 1866 - Paris, 1924)......Page 130
David Burliuk (Hamlet of Semirotovchtchina (now region of Kharkov), 1882 - Long Island, New York, 1967)......Page 134
Marc Chagall (Vitebsk, 1887 - Saint-Paul-de-Vence, 1985)......Page 136
Alexander Shevchenko (Kharkov, 1883 - Moscow, 1948)......Page 140
Maria Ender (St Petersburg, 1897 - Leningrad, 1942)......Page 142
Vera Ermolaeva (Petrovsk, 1893 - district of Karaganda, victim of Stalinist repression, 1938)......Page 144
Evguenija Evenbach (Krementchug, 1889 - Leningrad, 1981)......Page 146
Alexandra Exter (Belostok, 1882 - Fontenay-aux-Roses, 1949)......Page 148
Robert Rafailovich Falk (Moscow, 1886 - Moscow, 1958)......Page 150
Pavel Filonov (Moscow, 1883 - Leningrad, 1941)......Page 152
Natalia Goncharova (Negayevo, 1881 - Paris, 1962)......Page 154
Elena Guro (St Petersburg, 1877 - Uusikirkko, 1913)......Page 156
Lev Yudin (Vitebsk, 1903 - Leningrad, died on the front near Leningrad, 1941)......Page 158
Pyotr Kontchalovsky (Slaviansk, 1876 - Moscow, 1956)......Page 160
Wassily Kandinsky (Moscow, 1866 - Neuilly-sur-Seine, 1944)......Page 162
Valentin Kurdov (Mikhailovskoie, 1905 - Leningrad, 1989)......Page 166
Mikhail Larionov (Tiraspol, 1881 - Fontenay-aux-Roses, 1964)......Page 168
Vladimir Lebedev (St Petersburg, 1891 - Leningrad, 1967)......Page 172
Aristarkh Lentulov (Vorona, 1882 - Moscow, 1943)......Page 174
Lazar Lissitzky, known as El-Lissitzky (Potchinok, 1890 - Moscow, 1941)......Page 176
Kazimir Malevich (Kiev, 1878 - Leningrad, 1935)......Page 178
Mikhail Matiushin (Nijni-Novgorod, 1861 - Leningrad, 1934)......Page 180
Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin (Khvalynsk, 1878 - Leningrad, 1939)......Page 184
Alexander Rodchenko (St Petersburg, 1891 - Moscow, 1956)......Page 186
Mikhail Sokolov (Yarloslavl, 1885 - Moscow, 1947)......Page 188
Nikolai Suetin (Miatlevskaya, 1897 - Leningrad, 1954)......Page 190
Vladimir Tatlin (Moscow, 1885 - Moscow, 1953)......Page 192
Notes......Page 194
Index......Page 196